Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth. RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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42 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know
An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide. 1. Microsoft Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring of vaccine delivery. Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Transforming the Health of Businesses
American businesses and their leadership are at a crossroads. COVID-19 has forced us all to re-evaluate how we work and live, while the current protest movements have placed a spotlight on the systemic injustices non-white workers face both in and out of the office. Given that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, companies serious about doing right by their employees need to act decisively and clearly or risk becoming complicit in the racial and social
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Buoy Health Raises $37.5M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Navigation Platform
What You Should Know: - Buoy Health raises $37.5 million in Series C funding to expand it’s AI-powered healthcare navigation platform, bringing its total raised to date at $66.5M. - Buoy will use the proceeds to further build out its IP with respect to artificial intelligence and other technologies, as well as grow the Buoy team. Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based AI-powered healthcare navigation platform, today announced the completion of a $37.5 million Series C funding round. Cigna
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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
What You Should Know: The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus. Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations. Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, MITRE, Rush
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Banner Health Deploys Buoy Health AI-Powered Digital Triage Tool
- Banner Health goes live on Bouy Health’s AI-powered digital triage tool for real-time personalized clinical support.Buoy Health (Buoy), the AI-powered platform for consumers that provides real-time personalized clinical support, today announced Banner Health has deployed its digital triage tool, Buoy Assistant, to equip and empower its customers as they navigate the healthcare journey.Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the United
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CB Insights Unveils ‘Digital Health 150’ List of Startups Transforming Healthcare
- CB Insights unveils first-ever annual ‘Digital Health 150’ list of digital health startups working to transform the healthcare industry. - The Digital Health 150 companies span a wide spectrum of categories that involve all three key stakeholder groups for the healthcare industry — providers, payers, and patients. - A total of 17 companies on the list are unicorns (private companies valued at $1B+). Of these, 12 companies are US-based, 3 are based in China, 1 is based in France, and 1
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Buoy Health Integrates with Boston Children’s to Improve Pediatric Capabilities
Buoy Health, an AI-focused health technology startup that develops digital tools to help people from the moment they get sick start their care on the right foot, today named Boston Children’s Hospital its first innovation partner. As part of the multi-pronged partnership, Boston Children’s Hospital will integrate Buoy’s advanced AI into its website to help parents around the globe identify the right course of treatment the moment their children’s symptoms hit.Innovation Partnership DetailsAs
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Circulation Integrates With Buoy Health for On-Demand Transportation Options for Patients
Circulation Health, a Boston, MA-based ride-ordering exchange that coordinates medical transportation logistics using Lyft and other transportation partners, today announced that it has entered into a nationwide partnership with Buoy Health to help millions of patients online receive the care they need when they need it the most. The partnership will introduce Buoy’s patients to an even further streamlined, end-to-end healthcare experience by making it easy for them, post assessment, to book
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Buoy Health Lands $6.7M to Expand AI-Powered Symptom Checker to Providers, Payers
Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based digital health startup has raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by F-Prime Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor. The round also included participation from FundRx, Jack Connors, and other angel investors.Formed out of the Harvard Innovation Laboratory in 2014, Buoy Health’s artificial intelligence-powered online symptom and cure checker leverages an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients. Designed to resemble an
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