Cityblock Health, a tech-enabled provider startup aimed at the Medicaid and low-income Medicare populations, named Dr. Kameron Matthews as chief health officer.
Matthews comes to Cityblock from the Veterans Health Administration, where she served as chief medical officer. She’s also a cofounder of nonprofit Tour for Diversity in Medicine, which connects aspiring physicians and dentists from...
Direct-to-consumer virtual health company Hims & Hers Health announced its plans to grow its Medical Advisory Board from five members to 15 members. The new members come from an array of medical specialties including urology, mental health and infectious disease.
This news comes roughly a year after the company went public through a SPAC merger. Since listing on the New York Stock Exchange,...
Prolucent Health, which offers a healthcare jobs marketplace and recruiting services, raised $11.5 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by SpringTide Ventures and Health Velocity Capital, with participation from UnityPoint Health Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Prolucent offers recruiting and workforce management services for employers, as well as an online job-search marketplace for healthcare...
This morning Evernow, a virtual women’s health company, named Dr. Leah Millheiser its next chief medical officer. Millheiser is a trained OB/GYN who specializes in menopause and sexual health. She is a clinical professor and the director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford Medical Center.
Dr. Jennifer Garrison, co-founder and director...
Tech-enabled nurse and aide staffing company connectRN has raised $76 million in a financing round led by Suvretta Capital Management and Avidity Partners.
Other investors participating in this round include HBM Healthcare Investments, Infinitum Asset Management, Adage Capital Management, Cormorant Asset Management and Park West Asset Management.
Home care provider Amedisys also invested and will...
This afternoon Greater Good Health emerged out of stealth mode with its nurse practitioner network focused on primary care. The Manhattan Beach, California-based startup is focused on digitally connecting nurse practitioners, and on offering providers training courses in value-based care, technology tools and clinical resources.
The company pitches itself as a network centered on the nurse...
Just after closing a $100 million funding round, H1 named Ziad Ismail as its new chief operating officer. He comes to H1 from Convoy, where he also served as the chief product officer. He previously held roles at Marchex, CitiKey and Microsoft.
“H1 has amassed an enormous amount of quality healthcare data that life science companies, hospitals and academic medical centers simply cannot find...
Flipkart to enter healthcare space via SastaSundar acquisition
One of India's leading e-commerce platforms, Flipkart, has signed definitive agreements to buy a majority stake at online pharmacy startup SastaSundar.
The Kolkota-based startup works with over 490 pharmacies to deliver healthcare products across the country. It also uses AI and data analytics to offer counselling services via its...
In a field changing as quickly as healthcare, ongoing training and education are essential. And just as it did with telehealth and physician collaboration, COVID has helped accelerate work that was already going on in remote medical education. In today's episode of HIMSSCast, we will talk to two startup founders working on remote workforce training from different angles. First, host Jonah...
Employee morale is low and turnover is high at direct-to-consumer virtual care company Ro, as the company struggles to expand its success beyond erectile dysfunction medication, according to reporting by TechCrunch.
TechCrunch’s anonymous interviews with 10 current and former Ro workers detail employee churn across departments and a frantic pace to launch or acquire new products that then...
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