ORLANDO – During HIMSS24 Views from the Top session, "Digital health startups: Harnessing innovation to disrupt and improve care delivery," experts relayed that strength in an executive team (not necessarily a product) and solutions that solve providers' pain points are top of mind.
"There are a series of attributes we tend to weigh pretty heavily–the strength and relevance of the executive team...
Disclaimer: Flare Capital Partners is an investor in Aetion, Cohere Health, HealthVerity, Inbound Health, Iora Health and VivorCare. See the broader Flare presentation here.
In part one of this article, we highlighted the various components of end-to-end cancer care delivery and management and how innovators have emerged to address today’s unmet needs. We unbundled the key challenges opposing...
Disclaimer: Flare Capital Partners is an investor in Aetion, Cohere Health, HealthVerity, Inbound Health, Iora Health and VivorCare. See the broader Flare presentation here.
This is part one of a two-part series on innovation in cancer care delivery. In part one, we will discuss the complexity of end-to-end cancer care management, the unmet needs and how some emerging digital health players...
Prescription-focused Waltz Health launched Tuesday with $35.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by GV, with participation from Define Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, Blue Venture Fund, Byers Capital, Twine Ventures and individual healthcare executive investors.
The startup's first product is called Marketplace Search, a search engine that pharmacies can provide to their consumers...
The alarming scale of the opioid use disorder (OUD) epidemic has resulted in unprecedented human and economic devastation, and there is significant opportunity for digital tools to alter the gold standard of care to one that is ongoing and on-demand.
The epidemic has only worsened since the onset of COVID-19, given heightened economic instability, social isolation, disruption to transportation...
In Part 1 of this article, we introduced Medicare and its covered services, along with rationales for digital health startups to engage with the nation’s largest payer. These motivations include Medicare’s large and growing beneficiary base, access to the nation’s largest and most influential payer, and movement toward value-based care.
Despite these opportunities, startups have been relatively...
Despite its attractive large market size, Medicare has long frustrated early stage healthcare companies. The complex federal health insurance system, mired in statutory constraints, has arguably discouraged entry from would-be external innovators.
Regulations intended to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, also create barriers to adoption for innovative value-creating products and services. The goal...
About the Authors: Ian Chiang is a principal at Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology and services-focused VC firm. Prior to joining Flare, he was the SVP of product and innovation and a founding member of Cigna’s CareAllies. Previously, he was a digital health entrepreneur and a former management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Poorwa Godbole is an MBA candidate at the Wharton...
About the authors: Dr. Sofia Noori (@sofianoori) was a member of the 2019 Flare Capital Partners Scholar Class and is currently a psychiatry resident at Yale School of Medicine. She is the curriculum lead for Innovation to Impact, a substance use entrepreneurship program funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse.
Dr. Dan Gebremedhin (@dangebremedhin) is a partner at Flare Capital Partners...
About the Author: Ian Chiang is a principal at Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology and services-focused VC firm. Prior to joining Flare, he was the SVP of product and innovation and a founding member of CareAllies, Cigna’s family of multi-payer provider services, population health management, value-based care enablement and home-based care businesses. Previously, he was a digital...
