Dr. Atul Gawande, CEO of Haven, stepped down from the high-profile healthcare venture to focus on Covid-19. He will become chairman of the company while it searches for a new CEO.
The Amazon-Berkshire-J.P. Morgan healthcare venture launched last year and headed up by Atul Gawande has a website and finally a name: Haven.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf denied Optum's request for a temporary restraining order that would have stopped ex-executive Dave Smith from joining the healthcare venture.
Serkan Kutan, a veteran of Microsoft, Amazon and Goldman Sachs, most recently served as the chief technology officer for online appointment booking company ZocDoc.
Optum said in the suit that due to the nature of his position, former executive David Smith was one of fewer than 50 people at the company with access to Optum's consolidated set of profit and loss statements at a product-line level.
A selection of the biggest payer stories in 2018, ranging from Amazon's healthcare incursion to Medicare Advantage's continued growth.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
While healthcare costs for employees have risen around 5 percent for the past few years, Collective Health clients actually saw their medical trend decrease by 0.3 percent from 2016 and 2017.
Doerr led Kleiner Perkins' investment into Amazon back in 1995 and was a long-time board member for the company.
A new software service from the company called Amazon Comprehend Medical uses machine learning and natural language processing to extract relevant medical information from doctors' notes, clinical trial reports and patient health records.
Dana Gelb Safran, a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts executive who works on analytics and improving outcomes, will serve as the initiative's "head of measurement," according to CNBC.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The two companies are already working together on a pilot program putting senior-focused primary care centers in Walgreens stores located in Kansas City.
According to a 2017 employer survey, a third of companies with more than 5,000 employees now offer general medical clinics at their work sites.