San Francisco-based predictive health company Potrero Medical has added former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin, to its advisory board.
Shulkin has had a decades-long career in healthcare, from working at the higher echelons of the private healthcare sector to an appointment by President Obama as Undersecretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015....
Pager, an app-based virtual care and services navigation app, announced this morning $33 million in both equity and debt funding. According to the company, equity comprised roughly two-thirds of this total.
Health Catalyst Capital headed the growth equity investment, which also saw participation from new backer Horizon BlueCross BlueShield of New Jersey as well as returning institutional...
DrChrono, a digital health company that works with EHRs, is teaming up with Cognition IP to help it draft five patent applications. The new patents will primarily be focused on machine learning technology. The pair are also going to be working on pushing through two patents that have been stalled for years.
“It was crucial to work with a partner that had a deep understanding of healthcare and...
Satchel Health, a company that uses connected devices to provide telehealth offerings to post-acute care providers, has had a change at the top. Founder and former CEO Ryan Macy has stepped down into the role of chief product officer and Satchel has hired Lanson Hyde as CEO. Hyde most recently served as chief operating officer of the hospital division and president of the Ambulatory Surgery...
App-based doctor house call company Pager will incorporate PokitDok’s healthcare price comparison tool into its care navigation platform. In addition to the ability to find board-certified doctors, registered nurses, physician assistants and nurse practitioners and arrange either in-home or telemedicine visits (or refer to a specialist) Pager customers will also be able to verify insurance or...
New York City-based Pager, which offers an app for on-demand house call services, has appointed Walter Jin as the company’s new CEO. In 2016, Pager formalized three large healthcare provider relationships: Weill Cornell, Evolution Health, and most recently, Baylor Scott & White Health. Since its inception three years ago, Pager says it has grown significantly and has many new healthcare...
On-demand digital health concierge Accolade Health, which provides its services for employers, health plans and health systems, made several hires over the last few weeks. Two weeks ago the company appointed Dr. Ivor Horn as Chief Medical Officer. A board-certified pediatrician, Horn previously served as medical director of the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children's Hospital...
New York City-based Pager, which offers an app for telemedicine and in-person house call services around the city, has raised $5.2 million, according to an SEC filing. The news was first spotted by MedCity News, which also reported that Pager will be focusing on adding payers to its customer base. The funding will be used to expand the company’s offerings outside of New York City as well as fund...
Dr Jay Parkinson, founder and Chief Medical Officer of Sherpaa, has long been an outspoken critic of video visits as the increasingly de facto modality for telemedicine. He argues that Sherpaa's offering of asynchronous doctor visits, carried out by text messaging, is more efficient, more scalable, and more in tune with consumer expectations.
"Secure, asynchronous messaging to solve health...
PediaQ, an app-based pediatric house call service, has raised $1.2 million in a round led by Bill Miller, a healthcare industry advisor at KKR Advisors, with participation from Jack Furst, of Oak Street Investors & HM Capital, and Gary Gerlacher, founder of Acute Kids Pediatric Urgent Care. This brings the company’s total funding to $2.1 million.
PediaQ allows users to call pediatric nurse...
