Zina Moukheiber
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Digital Health Company Livongo Files For An IPO
Digital health startups have raised billions in venture funding but produced zero IPOs since 2016; the dry spell is ending. → Read More
Mental Health Awareness Is On The Rise, But Access To Professionals Remains Dismal
Celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, have helped increase awareness of mental health conditions, but access to professionals remains an obstacle. A report card from AbleTo, which provides virtual therapy, gives the state of behavioral healthcare overall low marks. → Read More
Bryce Olson Wants To Raise Awareness About Precision Medicine. His Rallying Cry: 'Sequence Me'
Diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, Bryce Olson thought he had less than two years to live. Thanks to precision medicine, he's still alive. → Read More
An American Self-Made Woman: Mary West And Her Quest To Lower Healthcare Costs
Every month or so at a community center in downtown San Diego, Mary West gives a cooking lesson, and serves lunch to a crowd of seniors. “It’s my favorite place to visit; I light up when I go in there,” said West to a gathering of employees at her San [...] → Read More
Paying People To Use Lower Cost Health Care Providers Saves Money
Consumers almost never know in advance the cost of a medical procedure, which can vary greatly between hospitals, laboratories and imaging centers, even in the same city. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, knee surgery ranges from $7,978 at a surgery center to $25,496 at a suburban hospital. [...] → Read More
Athenahealth Doubles Down On Hospital Market
Athenahealth, which announced last month its entry into small hospitals with the acquisition of start-up Razor Insights, has made another purchase that propels it into a larger inpatient environment. In an unusual transaction, the company which sells cloud-based billing and electronic health record services to more than 40,000 office-based physicians, [...] → Read More
UnitedHealth Group Launches Wellness Program Tied To Premiums
In a move that underscores the growing belief that wellness programs can help employers foster healthy behavior and reduce health care costs, the country’s biggest insurer UnitedHealth Group has launched Rally Health for its members, as well as other health plans and self-insured employers. Five million UnitedHealth members now have [...] → Read More
Why Telemedicine's Time Has Finally Come
Telemedicine may just be the biggest trend in digital health in 2015. As a partner focused on digital health investments at venture capital firm AMV, I spend a lot of time crisscrossing the country chatting with leading healthcare providers and insurers about their technology needs. By far the area they [...] → Read More
On A Mission To Detect The Flu And Other Infectious Diseases With A Thermometer
Inder Singh couldn’t shake off a temperature of 103.8 degrees for one week during the summer of 2011. His doctor, an infectious disease specialist, was stumped. Desperate, Singh searched online for possible signs of a contagious illness in his New York area. There were none. Singh had worked in places like [...] → Read More
Tracking The Flu Via The Cloud
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention became unable to monitor flu outbreaks in the midst of a government shutdown a year ago, athenahealth, an electronic health record and billing management company volunteered to do the job. Nearly 60,000 medical professionals use its platform, and the company can monitor [...] → Read More
Mayo Clinic Turns To IBM'S Watson To Match Cancer Patients With Clinical Trials
At its annual Transform symposium in Rochester Minn., Mayo Clinic unveiled today a partnership with IBM, which seeks to harness the power of its Watson supercomputer to match patients with the right clinical trials. Starting early next year, Watson will initially enroll patients with breast, colorectal and lung cancers based [...] → Read More
Dr. Phil's Doctor On Demand Raises $21 Million As Telemedicine Heats Up
Doctor On Demand, a start-up that facilitates quick video consultations with physicians closed a $21 million Series A round led by Venrock. Consumers can access in under three minutes a physician from a smartphone or a desktop. Founded only eight months ago, Doctor On Demand has gained rapid visibility thanks to [...] → Read More
A Handful Of Doctors Are Top Users Of Electronic Health Records, And Most Are Athenahealth Clients
“Saying cloud over and over again doesn’t make it rain,” said hedge fund manager David Einhorn last month when he announced he was short athenahealth. He dismissed the cloud-based electronic health record vendor as an overvalued outsourcing company. Athenahealth’s stock dipped nearly 16% to $106.8, but has clawed its way [...] → Read More
Elizabeth Holmes Who Wants To Shake Up The Blood Testing Industry Is A Billionaire At 30
Elizabeth Holmes who developed a way to quickly diagnose a few drops of blood with minimal draw at a fraction of the price of commercial labs, is a billionaire. Holmes, who founded Palo Alto, Calif.-based Theranos with money saved for college, has been the subject of lengthy features in San Francisco [...] → Read More
Behind Epic Systems' Alliance With Apple
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company revealed tantalizing bits about a partnership with Epic Systems, the dominant vendor of electronic health records. The announcement which highlighted Apple’s new HealthKit platform for health apps and tracking devices took many by surprise. Epic fostered a relationship with Apple, when it [...] → Read More
Is A Kinder, Gentler HMO On The Horizon?
When Indiana University Health ran the numbers on back surgeries its orthopedic surgeons performed, the eighteen-hospital system noticed they were way above national benchmarks. Imaging for lower back pain was more than twice acceptable norms. Confronted with the data, doctors devised an evidence-based set of instructions to help their colleagues [...] → Read More
Merck Teams With Electronic Health Record Provider Practice Fusion To Improve Patient Health
In one of its first digital health initiatives, Merck has partnered with web-based electronic health record provider Practice Fusion to help doctors track the percentage of their adult patients who are up to date on their vaccines. On a dashboard, physicians can also see how well their patient population compares [...] → Read More
Grand Rounds Wants To Find The Right Doctor For You
In a perfect health care world, consumers should be able to pick a doctor based on track record: the number of surgeries, say, the doctor has performed, and the success rate of those surgeries—while adjusting for the severity of a patient’s case. Grand Rounds, a Venrock-backed start-up that provides medical second [...] → Read More
Health IT Soars With Castlight Health IPO
Castlight Health, which has been at the forefront of price transparency, went public today. Investors poured in, sending the stock up from an IPO price of $16 a share to nearly $40, which values the company at more than $3 billion. Health IT investors and entrepreneurs who have been eagerly [...] → Read More
IBM And Epic Apply Predictive Analytics To Electronic Health Records
Using the natural language processing technology that underpins IBM Watson, Carilion Clinic was able to identify 8,500 patients who are at risk of developing congestive heart failure within one year. The pilot project, which began in October, took only six weeks to wrap up. “We look at this as the [...] → Read More