Digital Health

Patient advocate Dave deBronkart believes interoperability advances could soon enable everyone to carry International Patient Summary QR codes with their own health data that could be scanned into EHRs in case of emergency.  

The company will use the funds to expand its employer-focused offerings into Florida.

Dr. Colin Banas, CMO at DrFirst, discusses the company's medication adherence product. It uses AI to send texts that educate patients about medications and provides coupons and co-pay-assistance program information, if cost is an issue.  

EvolutionaryScale's biology-focused language models for drug discovery and therapeutic development will be available to AWS customers.

Alex Diaconu, CEO of AiGIA Health, shares the story of how his chronic illness inspired him to start the company to help patients improve their health by practicing preventative care.  

Susan Conover, Piction Health CEO and cofounder, discusses the company's collaborations with dermatologists in 20 countries to build its AI to ensure accuracy across skin tones and the organization's objectives thanks to recent funding.  

Anatomy IT CEO Frank Forte says that redundant systems and practice drills, as well as partnering with vendors to prepare for inevitable cyberattacks, are key to building cyber resilience of healthcare organizations.  

The acquisition will see the publicly traded healthcare-navigation company become a privately held business.

Dr. Andrew Mellin, VP and CMIO at Surescripts, and Dr. Nele Jessel, CMO at athenahealth, discuss integrating real-time prescription benefits into provider workflows to remove sticker shock and improving adherence and the benefits to value-based care.    

According to Will Cantrell, InteliChart's director of product solutions, the company’s unified platform makes it easy for patients to schedule appointments and message clinicians without downloading an app or logging in to an account.