In a series of articles to promote INVEST 2025 in Chicago April 29-30, we are highlighting investment insights and perspectives. At the centerpiece of this boutique event for traditional and strategic healthcare investors, startups…
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The first attempts to digitalise healthcare started almost sixty years ago and were primarily focused on the adoption of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Although technologies were not that advanced to fully replace…
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In the midst of budget planning season, businesses are confronted with the looming challenge of managing healthcare costs, a significant line item in their budgets. Reports from the Business Group on Health project an…
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A new startup emerged from stealth on Tuesday at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas. The Irvine, California-based company, named Avandra Imaging, is a federated network for de-identified imaging data.
Avandra’s main goal is to…
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The past couple of years have been rocky for companies looking to disrupt the traditional primary care model — with top retailers Walmart and Walgreens announcing that they’re winding down their primary care operations…
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Despite today’s technological advancements, a large amount of prior authorization requests are submitted via fax machine. A new partnership between Blue Shield of California and Salesforce will address this issue.
The partnership was announced Monday…
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When Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams thinks about the tall task of advancing value-based care throughout the country, he harkens back to an idea often mentioned by his organization’s founder — Henry Kaiser, the…
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A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst showed that Waymark’s community-based interventions lowered hospital and emergency department visits and improved care quality.
San Francisco-based Waymark works with health plans, primary…
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Many have lauded the digital transformation occurring in the healthcare sector. By modernizing its technology, the healthcare industry is moving away from inefficient methods of data exchange, such as faxing. The industry is also…
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HLTH 2024 at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas on October 20 to 23 will spotlight a variety of startups that want to improve care coordination for providers, detect diseases earlier, improve the…
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