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Pipeline RX takes telemedicine to hospital pharmacies

As telemedicine gains further traction in healthcare, it’s taking on increasingly diverse forms, and a San Francisco-based startup is looking to tap into what it sees as a potentially huge space: hospital pharmacies. Pipeline RX, started four years by CEO Brian Roberts, has taken the approach and combined it with an outsourcing model from the […]

Startup Omada Health nabs nearly $1M to expand diabetes prevention efforts

San Francisco startup Omada Health is partnering with the California HealthCare Foundation and The Kresge Foundation to extend its online program for pre-diabetics, called Prevent, to low income populations throughout the U.S. The partnership comes in the form of investments totaling nearly $1 million, with $450,000 from the California Health Care Foundation and $500,000 from […]

When are YOU a better doctor than your doctor?

Even before the ACA became the law of the land, healthcare circles have been discussing ways to deal with the physician shortage, which is expected to accelerate with more patients entering the system. Nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants and the like are expected to help fill that gap. But maybe if the healthcare industry took […]

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New contest aims to understand the entire patient: health + money + family + work

When the problem is noncompliance, the solution often has nothing to do with pills. Patients often don’t follow treatment plans because they are taking care of someone else or they don’t have a ride to the doctor’s office or they don’t have the money to buy the medications. The California Healthcare Foundation is taking on […]