Castlight Health surprised a few with its lackluster, albeit growing, revenues in its filing for an initial public offering this week. But despite what seems like a pretty big overvaluation in a leaked report that valued the digital health company at “upwards of $2 billion,” a lot could happen between now and its public debut. […]
Update: Well, it’s not $2 billion, but the $100 million initial public offering Castlight Health has filed should give a sense of how digital health startups and their services for employer health plans are valued. Castlight has focused on bringing more transparency to healthcare costs for employer health plans so employees can make more informed […]
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.
After years of speculation, Castlight Health is planning to go public, according to a report by Fortune over the weekend. The digital health company has made a mission of breaking down information silos in the murky world of healthcare prices to make healthcare consumers more informed and to help companies reduce employer plan costs. The […]
“CMS is sitting on so much data; it’s a goldmine,” said Giovanni Colella, CEO and co-founder of Castlight Health, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on Tuesday. “Making that data accessible will help everyone better understand quality of care and cost of care.” But data alone won’t drive down healthcare costs. Colella joined TIME […]
“Big data” won’t do much to improve healthcare without big analytics. Thanks in part to billions in federal subsidies for electronic medical records (EMRs), it won’t be long before the U.S. is awash in vast, almost incomprehensible amounts of health data. It follows that developing the analytics to draw meaningful conclusions out of those mountains […]
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Castlight Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dena Bravata. In it, Bravata talks about the meaning of healthcare price transparency and how Castlight makes money by providing it.
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.
Updated 2:14 p.m. Already an outspoken advocate for healthy living as a means to cut healthcare costs, Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove is getting behind a company that enables people to shop for care. The Clinic has made an untold investment in California information technology company Castlight Health Inc. to push transparency in […]