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Fast 50: Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare provides software and analytics, network solutions and technology-enabled services that optimize communications, payments and insights designed to enable smarter health care. In June,...
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Fast 50: Vivere
Vivere offers fertility services. The company partners with physicians on ambulatory surgery centers, embryology laboratories and physician practices. You’re taking a free, companywide trip. Where do...
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Fast 50: NPS Pharmacy
NPS Pharmacy provides pharmaceutical and clinical management of patients with complex conditions. You’re taking a free, companywide trip. Where do you go, and why? To a secluded island with a full...
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Fast 50: CareHere LLC
CareHere LLC manages health centers for employers, which includes providing primary care as well as wellness services to covered employees and their families. You’re taking a free, companywide trip....
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Fast 50: Correct Care Solutions
Correct Care Solutions is a health care provider for government entities. The company provides medical, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy services for correctional organizations. You’re taking a...
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Texas Medical Board executive director to step down
The executive director at the Austin-based Texas Medical Board is stepping down to become the director of telehealth at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Mari Robinson's new position...
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Employers invest in care navigation to curb healthcare spending
Healthcare is expensive — and wasteful. The Institute of Medicine estimates that the United States will waste $750 billion this year in inefficiency and waste alone. To put that in context, the...
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'Cellular machine shop' wins big federal grant to help synthetic biology
Using IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform and other tools, Bay Area synthetic biology pioneers hope to turn a $24 million, five-year grant into a cellular machine shop for designing automated...
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Steward Health Care announces national plan, $1.25 billion investment
Steward Health Care has announced a national expansion plan, with a $1.25 billion investment from a real estate investment trust based in Alabama. The for-profit hospital chain, which is owned by...
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Why Lovelace is focusing on women's health
Lovelace has been focusing on expanding access to women's health services, especially on the Westside. "There are quite a few patients, in general, that don’t want to cross the river," said Dr. John...
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InstaMed gets $50M to drive innovation in health care payments technology
Health care payments network InstaMed received a $50 million investment from Carrick Capital Partners that it says will help it grow its network and drive further innovation in health care payments...
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Have a migraine? With machine learning your phone could be the first to know
The throbbing starts. You pick up your phone to Google migraine symptoms. Nausea? Check. Sensitivity to light? Check. Walking into the emergency room, you're told the wait will be three hours. Then...
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Novan closes IPO
Durham-based Novan – which is developing a treatment for acne without the use of antibiotics – has closed its initial public offering. The IPO consisted of more than 4.7 million shares, with...
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Wright State Research Institute gets $7.5M for research
Wright State Research Institute has been awarded $7.5 million for medical research. Wright State University announced the institute's researchers have received the award from the Office of Naval...
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Netsmart sets high goals for peer mental health training
Netsmart Technologies Inc. announced a new goal to certify 90 percent of its associates through the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Mental Health First Aid training. The company is the first...
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PeriGen acquires WatchChild from Hill-Rom, moves to Cary
Princeton, New Jersey-based PeriGen, which specializes in perinatal software, has acquired the the WatchChild Fetal Monitoring System from Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. The deal closed Sept. 21, according to...
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Telemedicine poised for exponential growth
From primary care visits to specialist referral services to remote patient monitoring, the future of telemedicine is here. Telehealth is a part of the healthcare delivery system that is growing fast...
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Major Louisville company closing facilities, laying off more than 200
Louisville's Signature Healthcare LLC plans to close two area facilities and lay off more than 200 workers. The senior living company filed notices today with the state, saying it plans to shutter the...
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Bono, others back Peninsula genetic cancer test startup's $45 million round
Startup Color Genomics Inc. raised $45 million from U2 frontman Bono and others to sells genetic tests to detect cancer risks. General Catalyst led the Series B round in the Burlingame company with...
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Introducing Oregon's 30 most-giving companies of 2016 (Photos)
Each fall, the Portland Business Journal gathers scores of companies that have, throughout the year, dazzled their fellow businesses with an array of creative and generous giving programs. Often, the...
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