Press Releases

PicnicHealth Partners with Komodo Health to Enrich Its Research Platform Utilizing Real-World Patient Data

Komodo Health and PicnicHealth have announced a partnership to support real-world evidence research programs for complex chronic illnesses like multiple sclerosis and hemophilia. With this partnership, PicnicHealth will enrich its database of de-identified patient medical records with data from Komodo’s Healthcare Map. The combined breadth and depth of real-world patient data will help support research efforts to close gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and streamline clinical development efforts to deliver life-saving therapies to patients. By integrating PicnicHealth’s data with Komodo Health’s Healthcare Map, PicnicHealth’s...

Geisinger Health Plan Makes Searching for a Provider Easier With Kyruus-HealthSparq Integration

Geisinger Health Plan has expanded its partnership with HealthSparq, a healthcare guidance and transparency technology company serving health plans, and its parent company, Kyruus. GHP is the first health plan to use HealthSparq’s new Path to Care solution to power its provider directory with richer, more accurate data that helps members better navigate their healthcare choices. Path to Care enables health plans to leverage enriched provider data from participating health systems on the Kyruus platform to enhance their online provider search experiences. According to the Centers for...

Leading Real-World Data and Analytics Organizations Form Industry Coalition to Advance Policies to Support Regulatory Use of Real-World Evidence

McKesson Ventures portfolio company Aetion is one of the five real-world data (RWD) and analytics organizations that have banded together to form the RWE Alliance, an industry coalition dedicated to advancing the use of real-world evidence (RWE) to support regulatory decisions. The other members of the Alliance are Flatiron Health, IQVIA, Syapse, and Tempus. The RWE Alliance intends to engage with the FDA and Congress to advocate for policies that advance the use or RWE in regulatory decision-making and benefit patients. The RWE Alliance will collaborate...

Aetion Closes $110M Series C Funding Round Led by Warburg Pincus

On May 11, Aetion announced a $110 million Series C fundraise. The fundraise was led by growth equity firm Warburg Pincus, with additional funding from new investors B Capital and Foresite Capital and existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flare Capital Partners. This additional $110 million brings Aetion’s total raised funding to $212 million. Aetion, a leader in the real-world evidence (RWE) space, nearly doubled its revenue and had a 100% customer renewal rate in 2020. “In a post-COVID era, we have an imperative to use...

Augmedix to Report 2021 First Quarter Financial Results on May 13, 2021

Augmedix, a leading provider of remote medical documentation and live clinical support, has announced that it will report financial results for the first quarter 2021 on Thursday, May 13, 2021, after market close. Company management will host a corresponding conference call at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET. The conference call can be accessed by dialing +1 (877) 407-3982 for U.S. participants, or +1 (201) 493-6780 for international participants. Use conference ID #13719307 to log into the call. Interested parties may access a live and...

Pharmapacks Announces Expansion and Reformation of Board of Directors and Advisors

Pharmapacks, an eCommerce enablement platform and retail seller for brands across major eCommerce marketplaces, announced that it has a new Board of Directors and Advisors, effective January 2021. The announcement follows Pharmapacks’ partnership with and strategic investment from The Carlyle Group in November of 2020. The Board of Directors and Advisors is composed of 10 members: Andrew Vagenas, Pharmapacks Founder and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Advisors Jay Simmons, Managing Director, Head of Global Consumer, Media, and Retail, The Carlyle Group Yue...

Accolade to Acquire PlushCare

Accolade announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlushCare, a leading provider of virtual primary care and mental health treatment. Together, the two companies intend to provide more seamless consumer access to care for acute, chronic, and preventative health needs, whether delivered virtually with PlushCare or through Accolade’s advocacy and navigation solutions that support in-person consultation. The addition of a primary care team will extend Accolade’s ability to improve clinical health outcomes for its members and deliver additional cost savings for employers. “Healthcare...

Aledade Announces Carbon Neutrality, Additional Sustainability Efforts

On Earth Day 2021, Aledade announced three key sustainability commitments the company is making in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint and support a healthier environment. First among them, Aledade announced that, effective immediately, the company is carbon-neutral and will ensure the offset of any carbon emissions that cannot be reduced. All of the company’s emissions in the first quarter of 2021 will be offset by permanently destroying refrigerant chemicals containing chlorofluorocarbons. “The health of our environment directly impacts the health of our populations, and...

Evidation Partners with HealthVerity to Enhance its Research and Virtual Health Offerings

Evidation and HealthVerity have announced a collaboration to provide greater transparency to the patient experience by allowing individuals to connect their wearable and survey data with real-world data from clinical settings via HealthVerity. The partnership will enable researchers and developers of health programs to be more responsive to individuals’ unique health considerations, correlating activities, behaviors, and outcomes in real life with data from clinical settings. Based on per-use consent, people can choose to share electronic medical records, medical and pharmacy claims, and lab data, along with...

Clinical Ink Deploys eCOA Solutions for Industry’s Most Complex Assessments

Global clinical trial technology company Clinical Ink announced that it has deployed an industry-leading 500 unique eCOA scales and assessments in 82 languages. eCOA, or electronic clinical outcome assessment, instruments play a critical role in clinical trial conduct and are used in a variety of ways, from screening for inclusion to use as a primary endpoint. The complex eCOA scales and assessments solutions Clinical Ink is offering include the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), Vineland-3, Bayley-III, and others that have never been...