Last week on-demand healthcare concierge for provider employers Accolade received $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and McKesson Ventures, with participation from Cross Creek Advisors and Madera Technologies.
Novartis has sold its stake in its consumer health joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline to its British rival for $13bn in an early move by Vas Narasimhan, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group's new boss, to focus on its core business.
Singapore-based DocDoc, an Asian patient empowerment company, announced on March 19 that it has raised US$5.45 million (RM21.33 million) in their Series B round of funding.
Measures aimed at addressing rising healthcare and health insurance costs in Singapore have been announced.
The use of Internet of Things in Healthcare is going to be revolutionary in the next years. IoT is now pretty much in everything we touch in our modern lives, technology is now a common denominator in most of everybody’s life.
HealthBot, a healthcare start-up, aims to bring the best of medical services to people staying in remote locations, especially rural areas, through its technology platform.
Big data is showering its miraculous effects on a range of industries. And the healthcare industry is not left out of the bandwagon. Precision medicine is at the brink of a revolution in individualizing treatment, and healthcare professionals are devising ways to prevent and treat diseases with granularity down to a single patient’s genome.
Cultivating a strong relationship with patients can translate into higher satisfaction scores but there is a widespread failure to communicate about the most appropriate way to reach consumers.
The NHS has launched a service that allows patients to share their urgent and end of life care wishes.
It’s no secret Jeff Bezos has been looking to crack healthcare. But no one expected him to pull in Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, too.
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