Date | Title | Description |
20.11.2023 | Key 2023 prior authorization benchmarks: How does your plan stack up? | Download this research report to read the latest utilization trends from over one hundred health plans across lines of business and segments. Health plans can use the data from this study to maintain or even increase their medical cost savi... |
07.11.2023 | HealthVerity launches its Mortality Masterset, powered by Veritas Data Research, to provide the most likely cause of death for health outcomes research | - |
07.11.2023 | Suki CEO Punit Singh Soni shares why AI will make the biggest impact on healthcare at FII7 | - |
06.11.2023 | Hospital Sector is Under Siege… | Each year there are over 34 million admissions across the more than 6,100 hospitals in the United States. Never before has this critical healthcare infrastructure been so needed, and yet, never before has it been under such duress. |
30.10.2023 | Humana and Greater Good Health Expand Access to Primary Care in Montana with Opening of Senior-focused Primary Care Clinics | Humana, a leading health and well-being company, and Greater Good Health, a healthcare organization expanding access to primary care for seniors through a nurse practitioner-led value-based care model, have announced the opening of primary ... |
23.10.2023 | Polarization and Role of Healthcare… | Globally, our collective net worth is estimated to be $454 trillion according to the 2023 UBS Global Private Wealth report, of which approximately $110 trillion is the aggregate value of all stock markets around the world. |
18.10.2023 | Inovalon and HealthVerity partner to advance use of real-world evidence in research | Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced the establishment of a Preferred Data Partner Program. |
18.10.2023 | Gauging the Potential of Hospital at Home | There’s been an enormous amount of buzz about hospital-at-home programs (and their companions, skilled nursing facility-at-home, or SNF-at-home, programs), which arose in 2020 when, in response to COVID-19 hospital overcrowding, the Centers... |
29.09.2023 | What If The AI-Hype Were Applied to One Of Humanity’s Greatest Challenges: Our Health? | AI dominates the headlines and overwhelms our attention spans these days. It can generate interior design images that go viral, write school English assignments and create life-like headshots. But what if AI were applied to one of humanity’... |
27.09.2023 | Here are the top startups to work for in 2023, according to LinkedIn | LinkedIn has released their 2023 Top Startups list identifying young companies leading the way in hiring, growth and employee engagement. LinkedIn’s editor-in-chief Dan Roth joins TODAY with the top five companies on the list and breaks dow... |
27.09.2023 | LinkedIn™ Top Startups 2023: The 50 U.S. companies on the rise | Over the past year, companies across sectors have grappled with a range of economic challenges — and with significant drops in venture capital funding, startups have not been immune. But times of uncertainty often pave the way for opportuni... |
26.09.2023 | Oshi Health Named Best-in-Class Finalist in Digital Health Hub Foundation’s 5th Annual Digital Health Awards | Oshi Health is proud to announce its selection as a Best in Class finalist in the Next-Gen Telemedicine category for the prestigious Digital Health Awards, presented by the Digital Health Hub Foundation at HLTH, the global leading healthcar... |
25.09.2023 | Next Team Addition Might be One of Our Best Investments… | How can it get any better? And yet it does as we continue to build out the investment team at Flare Capital… |
12.09.2023 | Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series: Stroke of the Pen: Risk and Reward – How to Harness and Influence Policy to Meet the Promise of Digital Health | We often talk about “stroke of the pen risk,” or the idea that the policy landscape can abruptly shift and render products or companies obsolete. Aside from legislation taking time, it’s often the case is that new regulation has led to the ... |
05.09.2023 | Axuall Case Study: Fundraising During Tough Times… | Notwithstanding recent employment data announced on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that 187k new jobs were added in August and that the healthcare sector employment increased by 71k, the U.S. unemployment rate increased... |
07.08.2023 | Author Health: Write Your Own Destiny… | A staggering 57.8 million Americans are thought to live with some form of mental illness, according to a 2021 study from the National Institute of Mental Health – more than 20% of the adult population. |
03.08.2023 | How AI Can Soothe Burnout, Burden of Prior Authorization | Niall O’Connor, Cohere’s Chief Technology Officer, sits down with Arundhati Parmar, of MedCity Pivot Podcast to discuss how AI is streamlining the burdensome process of prior authorization. |
02.08.2023 | Frist Cressey Ventures Backs Axuall’s Rapid Expansion as Customer ROI Builds | Axuall has announced the addition of Frist Cressey Ventures to its investor family with a Series B-1 investment following the company’s Series B funding in May 2023. Axuall has raised over $41 million from a combination of more than two doz... |
17.07.2023 | Digital Health in 3Q23: What Might We Expect… | Pitchbook estimates that there are more than 50k venture-backed companies in the United States, dramatically up from the less than 20k just ten years ago. |
16.07.2023 | The Story Behind Allina Health’s Spin-Out of Inbound Health | In October 2022, Minneapolis-based Allina Health and investment firm Flare Capital Partners launched a company called Inbound Health that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs... |
10.07.2023 | Italy Summer 2023: Revenge Tourism Confronts Immigration… | On a recent trip to Italy, it was surprising to learn that millions were engaged in “revenge tourism” in response to prolonged Covid lockdowns. |
05.07.2023 | Yet Another Addition to the Flare Capital Team… | We waited months and now the wait is over…! |
28.06.2023 | Former Partners CEO Gary Gottlieb launches mental health company with $115M fundraise | Gary Gottlieb, the former CEO of Partners HealthCare, now Mass General Brigham, has co-founded a new company designed to provide treatment to Medicare Advantage recipients with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Using a d... |
28.06.2023 | Author Health Debuts to Care for Seniors with Serious Mental Illness Announces $115 Million in Financing | Author Health launched today as one of the first platforms to provide comprehensive care and treatment for Medicare Advantage recipients with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. |
20.06.2023 | Value-Based Care: Does it Work? | It has been and will continue to be a grind. |
14.06.2023 | Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series: Value-Based Care: Does it Work? | The shift to value-based healthcare and reimbursement has created opportunities for improved outcomes and lowered costs — yet VBC models have proven difficult to operationalize and progress has been slow with mixed results. While we may fin... |
13.06.2023 | American College of Gastroenterology and American Gastroenterological Association Invest in Oshi Health to Accelerate Adoption of Hybrid Digestive Health Care | Strategic investments mark novel endorsement of whole-person multidisciplinary hybrid care model for digestive health by two premier GI medical associations. |
01.06.2023 | Inbound Health Expands its Home Hospital Care Platform to Include Post-Surgical Care for General Surgery, including Bariatrics, and Hernia | Leading at-home care platform brings high-quality general surgery to patients and healthcare providers through its innovative platform. |
31.05.2023 | Axuall Secures $20M Series B Capital Raise after Accelerated Market Growth & Enterprise Adoption | Axuall, the industry leader in clinical workforce intelligence, proudly announced today the investment of $20 million in Series B funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with additional investors Flare Capital Partners, Intermountain Ventures... |
22.05.2023 | Another Addition to the Flare Capital Team… | Please welcome Erinn Bisping to the investment team at Flare Capital Partners as Director of Marketing and Investor Relations. |
08.05.2023 | Who Controls the Purse Strings…. | Has there ever been a more complicated time in the capital markets? The pressures on Chief Financial Officers have never been more acute, the job more challenging, and yet many early-stage companies still struggle to properly staff this cri... |
20.04.2023 | Cohere Health CEO Siva Namasivayam Selected as Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New England Award Finalist | Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced that Cohere Health’s CEO, Siva Namasivayam, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New England Award finalist. Now in its 37th year, Entrepreneur Of The Year is one of the preeminent competitive ... |
11.04.2023 | Suki Adds Ambient Documentation Capabilities to its EHR Integrated, AI Voice Assistant for Clinicians | Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced today Suki Assistant Gen 2, which adds the revolutionary capability to automatically generate notes from listening to a clinician-patient conversati... |
11.04.2023 | Oshi Health Raises $30M Series B Funding to Scale Access to Its Virtual Multidisciplinary Digestive Care | Oshi Health, the virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by exi... |
10.04.2023 | Warning: Tricky Times Ahead… | Now in an environment when capital is relatively scarce and expensive, expect a dramatic bifurcation between high- and low-quality companies – the latter will quickly experience a bout of significant consolidation and company closures. |
07.04.2023 | Aetna and Oshi collaborate to provide virtual care for digestive disorders | Aetna®, a CVS Health® company (NYSE: CVSOpens in a new window), and Oshi Health (Oshi) today announced a new value-based collaboration that provides Aetna commercial members with in-network access to Oshi’s integrated multidisciplinary care... |
04.04.2023 | Inc. Founder Profile: Alessandra Henderson, Elektra Health | For helping women navigate menopause through research-backed expertise, personalized coaching, and a supportive community of more than 17,000 members. |
04.04.2023 | Inc. Founder Profile: Jannine Versi, Elektra Health | For helping women navigate menopause through research-backed expertise, personalized coaching, and a supportive community of more than17,000 members. |
04.04.2023 | Inc. Founder Profile: Nicoletta Tessler, BeMe Health | For delivering mental health services, such as coaching, clinical services, and crisis support, to more than 85,000 teens in all 50 states, with strong user results. |
31.03.2023 | Venture capital tries to find way in post-SVB era | Southeast Asia aspires to host the next startup financing ecosystem |
29.03.2023 | How Inbound Health Became The Hospital-At-Home ‘Ingredient’ For Health Plans, Health Systems | Since Allina Health formed Inbound Health in 2020, the hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home enablement platform has helped the Minneapolis-based health system deliver more than 5,000 home-based acute care episodes. |
28.03.2023 | Inbound Health Exceeds 5,000 Acute Care-at-Home Episodes in its Partnership with Allina Health | Inbound Health, a company that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs, has announced today that their proprietary platform has enabled Allina Health to successfully conduct ove... |
27.03.2023 | Namaste, India… | What an enormously complicated time to have been in India, and to have been there alongside the recent G20 Summit made for an even more precarious environment. |
27.03.2023 | Somatus Announces Value-Based Kidney Care Partnership with Duneland Nephrology in the Greater Northwest Indiana Area | Somatus, the nation's leading and largest value-based kidney care company, and Duneland Nephrology announced a new value-based care partnership that brings high-touch, comprehensive kidney care and improved healthcare access to patients wit... |
27.03.2023 | The Lumify Marketplace is now Adni | Big news! The Lumify Marketplace is rebranding to reflect our expanded vision of uniting everything healthcare workers need into a single platform. Today, we’re excited to share that the Lumify Marketplace is now Adni, derived from the Lati... |
21.03.2023 | Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series: Generative AI: Hype or Here to Stay? | Generative AI is the latest buzz in the tech and entrepreneur world. What does this mean for healthcare, and industry with strict data regulations and high-stakes decisions? In session ten of our Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Ser... |
08.03.2023 | Oshi Health Appoints Randy Forman as Chief Commercial Officer and Ryan Powers as Chief Financial Officer | Oshi Health, the virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics, today announced that two digital health veterans have joined its leadership team: Randy Forman as Chief Commercial Officer and... |
07.03.2023 | HLTH Daily Show: Michael Greeley, Co-Founder and General Partner, Flare Capital Partners | On the next episode of the HLTH Daily Show, our Host Chitra Nawbatt talks to Michael Greeley, Co-Founder and General Partner at Flare Capital Partners, to discuss the firm's focus on the transformation of the business of healthcare. |
06.03.2023 | Maldives – Trouble in Paradise? | Go to the end of the earth, and when you get there, turn left and go another few hundred miles and you will be at the Maldives, an independent Muslim country of ~550k people nearly 500 miles off the southern coast of India. |
03.03.2023 | How Perimenopause Affects Your Mental Health | Forget hot flashes and period changes. This one overarching issue is the real menace when dealing with perimenopause. |
03.03.2023 | A new clinic in Needham focuses on breaking the stigma around weight shaming at the hands of doctors | NEEDHAM, Mass. — The paint is still drying, the floors aren’t in -- but in a couple of weeks, a new type of primary care medical clinic will open in Needham: one which stresses ‘weight-inclusion.’ |
21.02.2023 | Food Crisis: Starving for Attention… | Yesterday just over 25k people died of starvation. The causes that contribute to that tragedy are numerous, and while the problems are often intractable, possible solutions to address this calamity are being developed in disparate settings ... |
13.02.2023 | Making the RightMove… | Just over three months ago, along with our terrific partners at the Hospital for Special Surgery, we announced the formation of a new company called RightMove Health, which has as its goal to make high quality, patient-focused virtual muscu... |
08.02.2023 | Talking M&A: Trends in Healthtech and Biotech M&A | Baker McKenzie partner Aarthi Belani and three prominent figures from the healthtech and biotech markets share their insights on M&A trends in the sectors for the third episode of the Talking M&A podcast. |
08.02.2023 | Exclusive: Beaming Health debuts autism therapy directory | Beaming Health hopes its online provider scores can help families of children with autism find good-quality therapy providers. |
06.02.2023 | Patient Access to Clinical Pharmacists Can Improve Medication Adherence | Data show pharmacist-led clinical consultations can improve patient adherence to medication plans. |
06.02.2023 | RightMove Appoints Marcus Osborne as CEO; Frist Cressey Ventures and Greycroft Join Series A Financing | RightMove Powered by HSS, a nationwide provider of virtual musculoskeletal physical therapy co-founded by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Flare Capital Partners, has appointed former Walmart Health executive Marcus Osborne to be its ... |
01.02.2023 | ‘Am I useless now?’ Aging women in the workforce face a crisis of confidence and experts say they simply deserve more | She was at the pinnacle of her career with a fiery memory and the gift of being able to adlib on stage during presentations. She felt pride in her achievements and was honored to be in a leadership position. Then a slew of symptoms caught h... |
31.01.2023 | Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Oshi Health’s Multidisciplinary GI Care Improves Patient Outcomes with Savings Greater than $10,000 Per Patient Within Six Months | Externally validated study results presented at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) showed statistically significant cost savings and high levels of patient satisfaction and symptom improvement |
31.01.2023 | Greenberg Traurig Life Sciences Webinar: Trends in Digital Health & AI | Panelists: Michael Greeley (Co-Founder and General Partner, Flare Capital Partners), Dr. Kenneth Mandl (Boston Children’s Hospital Director, Computational Health Informatics Program Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical Schoo... |
27.01.2023 | Cohere Health Introduces Cohere Unify™ Intelligent Prior Authorization | Transformative solutions digitize prior authorization and add clinical intelligence to reduce administrative burden while drive faster, better care |
24.01.2023 | Aetion, FDA partner on oncology real-world data | The FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence will use Aetion's Evidence Platform to find and analyze sources of real-world data that could be used for research. |
23.01.2023 | Digital Health in 2023: Envelope Please… | Obviously, the problems addressed by healthcare technology did not just get cut in half. |
19.01.2023 | Exclusive: Knownwell debuts obesity medicine-focused primary care | Knownwell wants to change the way primary care providers treat people with obesity, starting with removing the stigma linked with the disease. |
19.01.2023 | knownwell Launches with Funding Led by Flare Capital Partners to Change the Shape of Healthcare | knownwell, the new weight-inclusive healthcare company, today announced it has launched and closed on a $4.5M seed funding round led by Flare Capital Partners. |
19.01.2023 | Health care startup tackling weight bias launches in Boston | Startup knownwell announced $4.5 million in funding, much of which will go toward developing its first clinic, in Needham. |
12.01.2023 | Top Home Care Executives, Investors Join New “H. I. Squared” Advisory Board | The nation’s leading M&A event for in-home care delivery, The Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference (HI2), has announced the creation of a new advisory board to help guide the organization along its current high-growth trajectory... |
11.01.2023 | Cohere Health Named 2023 Built In Best Places to Work | Cohere Health, a recognized leader in transformative utilization management technology, was named a 2023 Best Place to Work by Built In. |
09.01.2023 | Chatterbox: ChatGPT – the Future is Here, Awkwardly… | Me: “Describe the most powerful, potentially disruptive technology to transform the business of healthcare.” |
19.12.2022 | 10 healthcare companies that hit $1B valuations in 2022 | Health tech had a wild ride in 2021 as venture capital dollars flooded into the market. |
19.12.2022 | Israel 2022: Unrelenting Times… | Having spent three energizing yet exhausting days in Israel this past week, one struggles to neatly put the experience in a simple elegant context. |
13.12.2022 | Cohere Health Receives URAC Accreditation | Cohere Health, a recognized leader in transformative utilization management (UM) technology, has received full Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) accreditation through November 1, 2025. |
06.12.2022 | Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series: Solving Healthcare’s Labor Crisis: The Workforce Reimagined | The healthcare labor crunch is disrupting care delivery across a multitude of settings. In session nine of our Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series, we led a series of fireside chats and panel discussions that provided insights a... |
02.12.2022 | Contributed: The future of digital cancer care (Part 2) | Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang and Jonathon George discuss emerging trends in digital health-enabled cancer care. |
01.12.2022 | Contributed: How digital health can improve cancer care delivery | Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang and Jonathon George discuss the complexity of end-to-end cancer care management and how digital health could address unmet needs. |
28.11.2022 | Lumanity announces strategic partnership with HealthVerity to provide streamlined access to real-world data, world-class analytics, and value demonstration expertise | Lumanity’s deep data analytics, value demonstration, and therapeutic area expertise alongside HealthVerity’s patient identity resolution technology and leading ecosystem of interoperable real-world data enables evidence generation across th... |
28.11.2022 | Digital Health Business: Michael Greeley – The Dedicated Digital Health Investor Perspective | In this episode, we had Michael Greeley with us. Mr. Greeley has more than 30 years of experience as a professional investor. He is the founding general partner at Flare Capital, one of the leading early-stage digital health-focused VCs in ... |
28.11.2022 | Inbound Health: Make Yourself @ Home… | In 2019, before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Department estimated that 611k people were treated at hospitals every day. |
23.11.2022 | Reimagining Maternal Health Equity | Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are taking meaningful action in every ZIP code, reimagining maternal health equity in communities where it matters most. This series elevates local voices across the Blues celebrating plans and partnersh... |
17.11.2022 | EarlyBird Education Raises $3M to Accelerate Growth | EarlyBird Education, developer of a game-based early literacy assessment, today announced that it has closed $3 million in funding led by MassMutual through the MM Catalyst Fund (MMCF). |
15.11.2022 | NOMS Healthcare Proactively Selects Axuall to Optimize Workforce Management | Clinical workforce intelligence leader Axuall will leverage real-time data and verifications to optimize and rapidly onboard NOMS Healthcare clinicians. |
01.11.2022 | Molina Healthcare of California Partners with BeMe Health to Offer Mental Health Support App for Teen Members | Molina Healthcare of California (“Molina”) has partnered with BeMe Health (“BeMe”), a digital behavioral health company, to provide Molina Medi-Cal members, ages 13 to 19, with access to digital tools, content, and support designed to tackl... |
31.10.2022 | Digital Health: The End of the Beginning… | Upon the conclusion of a very tough week for U.S. consumer internet and technology stocks that saw over $550 billion of market value evaporated at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft (combined market value now sits at $6.64 trillion... |
26.10.2022 | Aspen RxHealth Launches Clinical Pharmacy Services Platform for Payers | New offering reduces operational risk and burden to in-house pharmacy teams while opening access to the first and largest gig-economy of over 7,000 pharmacists |
26.10.2022 | Hospital for Special Surgery scores $21M to spin off virtual physical therapy platform | Hospital for Special Surgery has announced $21 million in series A funding that will help launch RightMove Powered by HSS, a for-profit company independent of the nonprofit hospital. |
25.10.2022 | Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), The Global Leader in Orthopedics, Launches Newco Targeting $380B National Musculoskeletal Health Burden | Flare Capital and HSS leading $21M Series A fundraising round for RightMove Powered by HSS, a national virtual triage and nonsurgical physical therapy solution that produces better outcomes at reduced costs |
24.10.2022 | 3Q22 Venture Activity: Third Time Was Not a Charm… | Obviously, 3Q22 was a very difficult quarter in the capital markets. |
24.10.2022 | Cohere Health and Humana Expand Partnership to Further Improve Physician and Member Experiences | Today Cohere Health, a leader in intelligent utilization management (UM) technology, announced that Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) will expand its use of Cohere’s digital UM collaboration platform to enable seamless prior authorization for cardiov... |
18.10.2022 | Allina Health, Flare Capital spin out startup to enable at-home care models | Inbound Health is a new startup spun out by Minnesota-based Allina Health and Flare Capital Partners. The company is designed to help enable health systems and health plans to establish hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs. |
18.10.2022 | Inbound Health Launches to Enable Partners to Build and Scale Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility-at-Home Care Models | Flare Capital Partners and Allina Health leading $20M fundraising for Inbound Health to scale successful acute care-at-home programs nationally through unique partnership model |
18.10.2022 | Elektra Health Teams Up with EmblemHealth to Bring the First Menopausal Education & Support Program To New York Health Plan Employees | The digital health platform's unique menopausal services and offerings will be available to EmblemHealth team members |
17.10.2022 | 34 Most Promising Femtech Startups of 2022 According to Investors | We asked top venture capitalists to name the most promising women's health startups so far in 2022. The result is a list of 34 companies covering everything from menopause to cardiovascular health. |
12.10.2022 | The Academy Community | Webinar: Optimizing Workforce Management Through Data and Analytics |
11.10.2022 | Flare Capital Expands the Team – Yet Again… | A critical dimension to the staffing model at Flare Capital is our deep bench of Executive Partners. |
11.10.2022 | Blue Cross Blue Shield report finds racial and ethnic inequities in maternal health complications climbed during COVID-19 pandemic | Pennsylvania saw a 13% increase in severe maternal morbidity rates for commercially insured members from 2018 – 2021, compared with a 23% rate of increase nationally |
30.09.2022 | NIH NCI awards National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR) data platform contract | HealthVerity has been awarded a 2-year, $7M contract with the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to provide a data platform for the National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR). |
27.09.2022 | Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series: Fundraising in a Turbulent Capital Market | Fundraising in a turbulent capital market is not easy. In session eight of our Flare Capital Partners Expert Roundtable Series, we led a series of fireside chats and panel discussions that provided insights and tactical tips. We heard from ... |
26.09.2022 | Dentistry: Open Wide and Say Aah… | While over $142 billion is spent annually on dental care in the U.S., many only really think of dentistry when in the exam chair and yet there are many exciting developments to chew on. |
22.09.2022 | CVS makes strides on reducing suicide attempts by Aetna members by 20% | Despite progress among adults, suicide attempts are spiking among adolescents. |
13.09.2022 | Another Addition to Flare Capital Team… | How can it get any better? And yet it does… |