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| Oct 29, 2013 | WebMD buys Avado, a health-care technology startup founded by Microsoft vets | Dave Chase.
Avado, a Redmond-based startup that aims to do for health-care what Mint has done for personal finance, has been acquired by WebMD for an undisclosed sum.
The deal was announced this afternoon. Avado, with a dozen employees, was... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | WebMD’s Avado acquisition bridges its engagement gap between docs and patients | In addition to its healthcare information channel, WebMD owns Medscape and cardiology news channel theheart.org. Another arm of its business allows members of employer and wellness plans to gain access to health management information and g... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | WebMD Acquires Avado For $20-$30M To Help Drive Its Evolution From Media Company To Patient Engagement Platform | Seventeen years after its inception, WebMD remains one of the go-to resources for basic health and diagnostic information (and hypochondria enablement) on the Web. Born at the height of the Dot-com Boom, WebMD is on a very short list of com... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | WebMD Acquires Health Tech Startup Avado To Accelerate Patient-Physician Connectivity | WebMD , the leading source of health information, today announced that it has acquired health tech startup Avado, a developer of cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) tools for an undisclosed sum. The Redmond based startup provi... |
| May 9, 2013 | NY Digital Health Accelerator Graduates First Class, Sees an Acquisition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One year after it was announced, the New York Digital Health Accelerator birthed its first clutch of startups on Wednesday at a demo day—including one acquisition deal in the ... |
| May 8, 2013 | N.Y. eHealth’s next digital health class will add patient, caregiver workflow | The largest funded healthcare IT accelerator program in the country, the accelerator began with an initial investment of $4.2 million. Since its launch in September last year, the companies in the class have raised $5 million, hired 40 new ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | 8 Reasons Why Every Health Tech Startup Should Use Crowdfunding | Why not explore what’s to gain from crowdfunding when there’s nothing to lose? MedStartr’s co-founder and CEO Alex Fair explains.
Alex Fair, Co-Founder & CEO of MedStartr
Thinking about joining the crowd? We know, your mother probably t... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint upended personal finance | Avado has reeled in $1 million in seed funding, money that the company will use to continue to eradicate paper-based inefficiencies in the healthcare industry and make it easier for patients to connect with health care providers. Founded by... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Federal Government Makes Silo-Busting, Startup-Unleashing Healthcare Move | Editor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and founder of Mic... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| Nov 4, 2012 | Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems | Editor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and founder of Mic... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | New York Digital Health Accelerator Announces Inaugural Startup Class | New York Digital Health Accelerator announces inaugural startup class during this week’s Digital Health Conference 2012
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and The Partnership for New York City Fund (Parnership Fund) announced the inaugur... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Avado Health 1 of 8 startups selected by 21 large NY providers for accelerator class | Largest support of any startup accelerator
The aforementioned investors (list is also on their website) put in the money which is $300,000 per company that is also — by far — the largest of any of the programs. It’s a 9 month program reflec... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | 8 N.Y. digital health accelerator startups to get direct access to state healthcare network | The services and tools from the accelerator companies will be used for the state’s Medicaid Redesign Team “Health Homes” initiative to make Medicaid patient treatment more coordinated and efficient.
The accelerator, formed by the NYeHealth ... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups | Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, “an industry segment in their own right.” And while that industry segment has become more and more crowded, t... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | StartUp Health Talks New Class of Healthcare Transformers w/ Techcrunch | New York-based StartUp Health Academy announced its newest class of “Healthcare Transformers” selected for its growing national academy for health and wellness entrepreneurship covering a broad spectrum of issues, from telehealth and physic... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Startup Health Announces Second Class Of Healthcare Transformers [TCTV] | Startup Health first announced Round One of its startup academy roster in March. There were ten different companies, ranging from a device that made it possible to conduct high-risk pregnancy at home to an online service that keeps all your... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | 3 RockHealth and 1 Blueprint grad, NBC’s chief medical editor join StartUp Health’s new class | Here’s a rundown of the most recently selected participants:
Dave Chase (@chasedave) and Bassam Saliba, Avado Health: Chase founded Microsoft’s healthcare business and is a serial entrepreneur. Bassam is a serial technology entrepreneur. To... |
| Jun 25, 2012 | Torrid Rate of Growth for Digital Health Funding | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jun 24, 2012 | Supreme Court Decision On Obamacare Has Little Relevance To Healthcare Disrupters | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Pharma’s Huge Threat (and Opportunity): mRx | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jun 4, 2012 | Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall(ed Garden) | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| May 6, 2012 | Strategic Healthcare Investors’ Investment Thesis | Editor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and founder of M... |
| May 2, 2012 | Community Hospital Joins Wave Of New Strategic Venture Funds To Drive Disruptive Innovation | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | Government Poised To Provide A Huge Boost To Healthtech Startups | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcar... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Patients Are More Than A Vessel For Billing Codes | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Dumb Employers, Lucky Startups And An Untapped Reservoir | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Aetna: The Company Scaring Its Competition And Delighting Startups | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Khan Academy Inspires Flip of Doctor-Patient Relationship Model | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | To Meme, Or Not to Meme, That Is The (Startup) Question | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | What Pharma Can Learn From the Railroads and IBM | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Communication is the Most Important Medical Instrument | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | WWJD? The CEO Every Healthcare Leader Should Learn From | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Why It’s Good News HealthIT is So Bad | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Part Health Tracker, Part Q&A Community, WeSprout Looks To Bring Sanity To Parenting | Parenting is already an extremely hard job, let alone the myriad issues tired parents find in trying to track down the best local babysitter and daycare services, schools, and more. Meanwhile, the brain-melting technology that we see employ... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | The Rise of Nimble Medicine | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Money Ball for Medicine – Business Models for Healthcare | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jan 5, 2012 | Report Highlights Huge Gender Disparity in Healthcare Leadership | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Healthcare Field of Dreams In Idaho: Health System Opens Innovation Center | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | DIY Health Reform: Employers Solving Healthcare Crisis One Onsite Clinic At A Time | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Dec 10, 2011 | Microsoft Ends Another Vertical Market Dalliance—This Time In Healthcare | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice ... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Walmart’s Early Christmas Gift To The HealthTech Community | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Avado Launches ‘Patient Relationship Management’ Platform To Help Healthcare Providers Go Digital | Back in May, Avado was chosen as a finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC. The startup’s ambition was, said in reductive terms, to become the Salesforce.com of personal health records. (You can read our initial coverage here.) In other words... |
| Oct 9, 2011 | Health 2.0: Innovators, Opportunists & Delusionals | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a Patient Relationship Management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice ... |
| Aug 28, 2011 | HealthTech FAIL: Lessons For Entrepreneurs From Health Startups Gone Awry | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice ... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Lessons HealthTech Startups Can Take From ZocDoc | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a Patient Relationship Management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice ... |
| Jul 31, 2011 | Healthcare Disruption: Providers Are Making Newspaper Industry Mistakes (Part III) | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice consulting to ... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Healthcare Disruption: Providers Will Use HealthTech to Differentiate and Produce Better Outcomes (Part II) | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| Jul 23, 2011 | Healthcare Disruption: Pharma 3.0 Will Drive Shift from Life Science to HealthTech Investing (Part I of III) | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| Jul 10, 2011 | Hotwire For Surgery | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Declaration of Insurance Independence (Part II): Unleash The Health IT Startups | Dave Chase is the founder and CEO of Avado, a TechCrunch Disrupt NYC finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. This is Part II of a two-part p... |
| Jul 3, 2011 | The Declaration of Insurance Independence | Dave Chase is the founder and CEO of Avado, a TechCrunch Disrupt NYC finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. This is Part I of a two-part po... |
| Jun 26, 2011 | Why Google Health Really Failed—It's About The Money | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| Jun 19, 2011 | The Most Important Organization In Silicon Valley That No One Has Heard About | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the fo... |
| May 28, 2011 | What It Was Like To Launch At Disrupt NYC | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by David Chase (@chasedave), the CEO of Avado, a healthcare startup that was one of the 30 Battlefield Finalists at Disrupt NYC last week. Chase was going to publish this on his blog, but we asked ... |
| May 25, 2011 | Avado turns health care into continuous care | In ancient China, doctors were paid to keep their patients well. If a patient fell ill, the doctor didn’t get paid until they got better. We have gotten used to being continuously connected, so why does healthcare still revolve around an oc... |
| May 24, 2011 | Microsoft vet Dave Chase sets out to fix the ‘broken’ health care system with Avado | Dave Chase
There’s perhaps no industry as screwed up in America as health care. And Dave Chase, who helped create the healthcare business at Microsoft during his 12-year tenure, is now looking to help fix it through a new Seattle startup co... |
| May 24, 2011 | Avado Aims To Be The Salesforce.com Of Personal Health Records | Healthcare is expensive, and it’s increasingly suffering from overinflation. It seems that, while what we pay for consumer goods has tended to increase at a normal rate, healthcare costs have sky-rocketed in comparison. Quite a few startups... |
| 8 N.Y. digital health accelerator startups to get direct access to state healthcare network | The eight early and growth-stage health IT companies selected for the New York Digital Health accelerator represent ways to improve communication among doctors and nurses, and harnessing data to reduce readmissions.
The program that has an ... |
| Avado Health 1 of 8 startups selected by 21 large NY providers for accelerator class | With the explosion of startup incubator/accelerators everywhere including healthcare, there’s one that stands out in my mind. It’s the NY Digital Health Accelerator. Full disclosure: My company was selected for it. I think the various early... |
| 3 RockHealth and 1 Blueprint grad, NBC’s chief medical editor join StartUp Health’s new class | StartUp Health is bringing in 12 new “healthcare transformers” to join its academy for health and wellness entrepreneurship — some of them with team members who have already made a name for themselves in the health tech industry.
StartUp He... |
| N.Y. eHealth’s next digital health class will add patient, caregiver workflow | It was graduation day for the eight members of New York eHealth Collaborative’s inaugural class for its digital health accelerator. But the second class, already in the planning stages, will also include patient and caregiver coordination i... |
| WebMD’s Avado acquisition bridges its engagement gap between docs and patients | Patient engagement tools have just taken on a new importance for health IT investors, thanks to the WebMD’s (Nasdaq: WBMD) acquisition of health IT company Avado. It’s a significant shift for the company which has, until recently, focused o... |