| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.06.2025 | Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market | Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six “pillars” in order to simplify its structure.
The change comes after Amazon lost a handful of top health executives in recent months.
Amazon has struggled to find a consistent strateg... |
| 23.05.2025 | Intuit shares pop 8% on earnings beat, rosy guidance | Intuit shares popped on Friday, a day after the company reported strong quarterly results.
The company said revenue in the fiscal third quarter increased 15% to $7.8 billion.
“This is the fastest organic growth that we have had in over a de... |
| 23.05.2025 | Anthropic adds Claude 4 security measures to limit risk of users developing weapons | Anthropic said it activated AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) for Claude Opus 4.
The company said the move is meant “to limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, an... |
| 08.05.2025 | Amazon adds pet prescriptions, expanding online pharmacy offerings | Amazon is allowing pet owners to access “hundreds of commonly prescribed pet medications” through a partnership with Vetsource.
Prescriptions are dispensed and delivered by Vetsource, but are ordered through Amazon’s storefront.
Amazon said... |
| 06.05.2025 | Reviving American Pharma: A Bold Move or a Risky Gamble? | In a landscape where the pharmaceutical industry has become a global chessboard, President Donald Trump has made a significant move. He signed an executive order aimed at revitalizing domestic drug manufacturing. This decision comes at a ti... |
| 05.05.2025 | Hims & Hers gives weak outlook but says more collaborations are coming | Hims & Hers shares fell in extended trading on Monday after the company reported first-quarter earnings that offered soft guidance.
For its second quarter, Hims & Hers said it expected to report revenue between $530 million and $550... |
| 05.05.2025 | Hims & Hers brings former Amazon executive into C-suite | Hims & Hers Health announced Nader Kabbani will join the telehealth company as its new chief operations officer.
Kabbani spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, where he oversaw the launch of Amazon Pharmacy, the company’s acquisition of PillP... |
| 26.03.2025 | Amazon Pharmacy medical chief Gupta is latest health exec to leave company | Dr. Vin Gupta, a high-profile public health expert and clinician, has left Amazon after roughly five years.
Gupta most recently served as the chief medical officer of Amazon’s online pharmacy business.
Amazon confirmed Gupta’s departure to ... |
| 07.03.2025 | The Shifting Sands of Leadership: Amazon's One Medical Faces New Horizons | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, change is the only constant. Amazon's One Medical is no exception. The recent announcement of CEO Trent Green stepping down after a brief tenure has sent ripples through the industry. This shift... |
| 05.03.2025 | Amazon’s One Medical CEO stepping down after less than two years at helm | One Medical CEO Trent Green will step down from the Amazon-owned primary care provider after less than two years in the role.
Green was tapped to lead One Medical shortly after Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the company.
O... |
| 02.07.2024 | Could Amazon or Google Hold the Key to the Future of Public Health Diagnostics? | Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell
Anyone who works in medical technology knows that the industry is currently focused obsessively on two prime targets – maximizing the availability of self-testing and playing its part in the common goa... |
| 11.06.2024 | What retailers might do next on health care | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Major retailers are abandoning or scaling back their ambitions to become health care providers — but don't look for them to pull out of the market entirely.
Why it ma... |
| 17.04.2024 | Next on TCS Legends: David Frankel | TechCentral is pleased to announce that the next episode of its popular new technology show TCS Legends will feature an interview with pioneering South African technology entrepreneur and investor David Frankel.
Frankel, the one-time CEO of... |
| 11.10.2023 | YC’s Health & Bio Summit is coming to SF in December — apply now to attend | The last two batches at YC were some of the absolute strongest we've ever seen, in large part because of the healthcare and bio founders we had the privilege of working with.
YC has now funded over 500 bio and healthcare companies, and the... |
| 28.07.2022 | Why Amazon’s multibillion-dollar healthcare acquisition could raise data privacy concerns | Source: Shutterstock.
This week Amazon announced plans to fork out US$3.9 billion ($5.6 billion) to acquire US healthcare company One Medical.
One Medical reportedly provides primary care on a membership basis to some 800,000 people across ... |
| 19.08.2020 | Reliance Industries Acquires Majority Stakes In NetMeds For Rs 620 Crores | Advertisment
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Moreover, This acquisition gives Reliance Retail entry into vertical e-commerce space, one of the few that has soared duri... |
| 29.10.2019 | How to help aging parents manage their medications | Dear Savvy Senior: What tips or tools can you recommend that can help seniors and their caregivers keep up with medications? My 82-year-old mother, who lives alone, is supposed to take several different medications at various times of the d... |
| 20.06.2019 | The first big clue about how Amazon plans to upend the US healthcare system with PillPack just dropped | JASON REDMOND/AFP/Getty Images
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Amazon acquired online pharmacy PillPack a year ago, signaling an entry by the powerful online retail giant into healthcare.
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| 13.12.2018 | How traditional pharmacies can survive the Amazon threat | Are traditional pharmacies doomed to the same fate as Borders, Blockbuster, and Sears? The threat is real.
Companies like Capsule and PillPack are redesigning the pharmacy for the digital age. In addition to making it effortless to get pres... |
| 11.12.2018 | «Отказ от MBA — лучшее решение в моей жизни»: истории двух предпринимателей, которые поступили на MBA в США Статьи редакции... | Один отказался от обучения перед началом учебного года, а второй решил закончить бизнес-школу.
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| 21.09.2018 | Big Data revolution driving $13.4 billion healthtech M&A deals says Hampleton Partners | Amazon, Apple, Google and IBM healthtech investments are forcing incumbents to make defensive M&A deals
Record private equity investment in healthtech
London, UK - 21 September 2018 The latest Healthtech M&A Market Report from inter... |
| 03.09.2018 | Successful vertical integration in healthcare requires past failure | Vertical integration in any industry takes a great deal of capital. But vertical integration in healthcare is different than Amazon buying Whole Foods, or even buying PillPack. In fact, these deals might not even be that far afield from Ama... |
| 01.07.2018 | Amazon to Acquire Charles River Ventures-backed PillPack | SEATTLE & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 28, 2018– Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and PillPack today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire PillPack. PillPack is a pharmacy designed to pro... |
| 29.06.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, June 29 | FLY
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At this point, you’re likely tired of my commentary on this topic, so I spoke with an investor who participated in Bird’s latest round ... |
| 28.06.2018 | Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B | A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition that underscores how it also hopes to have a more direct — and more commercial — role in the world of... |
| 28.06.2018 | Amazon will acquire PillPack, ending months of speculation | PillPack has raised $118 million to date from investors that include Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, CRV, Founder Collective, Menlo Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Techstars.
Each month, customers receive a personalized roll of pre-sorted med... |
| 28.06.2018 | Amazon acquires PillPack, an online pharmacy that delivers medicine to your door | Amazon has announced plans to acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that sorts patients’ medications into personalized packets that are delivered directly to their door. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Amazon referred to the deal a... |
| 28.06.2018 | Amazon acquires PillPack, an online pharmacy that delivers medicine to your door | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amazon has announced plans to acquire PillPack, a... |
| 03.04.2018 | Reports: Walmart Wants to Buy PillPack, as Healthcare Ambitions Grow | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Walmart is reportedly talking with PillPack about acquiring the online pharmacy and medication management company, a deal that would strengthen the retail giant’s healthcare o... |
| 02.04.2018 | Walmart reportedly in talks to acquire prescription delivery service PillPack | Walmart is in discussions to acquire medication delivery service PillPack for “under $1 billion,” reports CNBC. CNBC’s sources said the deal isn’t final yet, but talks have been going on for months and Amazon was also a potential suitor for... |
| 02.04.2018 | Walmart is looking to buying online pharmacy startup PillPack, for under $1 billion | Online pharmacy startup, PillPack, is currently in talks to be acquired by Walmart for under $1 billion, according to the latest report from CNBC, citing, two sources familiar with the matter.”We are often asked to speculate on possible acq... |
| 01.12.2017 | A prescription for healing the healthcare industry | Mike Townsend Contributor
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The year is 1900. Life expectancy is 47 years. Almost all hospitals in the U.S. are nonprofit institutions founded by religious organizati... |
| 25.08.2017 | Medication Adherence Tech: A dynamic and crowded market, but where are the winners in the space? (Part 1 of 2) | About the Authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, previously served as a Medical D... |
| 11.08.2017 | Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo has evolved in the past year from a period tracker to include more information on ovulation and personal health insights based on the data users punch into the app, a spokeswoman for the company noted in an email. The company has also r... |
| 10.08.2017 | Here Are BostInno's 10 Coolest Companies Winners for 2017 | The BostInno team is so grateful that over 2,000 of you gave up a precious summer night to celebrate Boston's innovation community with us. Last night's BostonFest did not disappoint one bit. We had hundreds of tech companies represented at... |
| 19.05.2017 | What would it mean if Amazon expanded into pharma | The effect it would have on Amazon, pharmaceuticals and other companies in the space
Some of the biggest tech companies have been staking their claims in the healthcare space in the last few years. Companies like Google and Apple have been ... |
| 20.04.2017 | ZappRx closes $25M Series B in bid to ease onerous specialty drug prescription processing | The Boston-based company’s first disease platform is pulmonary arterial hypertension. It represents a significant solution for patients who face a wait of up to eight weeks for each of the drugs that are added as the disease progresses. The... |
| 08.12.2016 | Here Are the Winners for 50 on Fire 2016 | The suspense is killing you, right? After months of mounting excitement, we announced this year's winners of our 50 on Fire awards at our annual blowout celebration on Wednesday night. Our 50 winners comprise individuals and organizations p... |
| 03.11.2016 | On-demand birth control delivery startup Nurx raises $5.3 million from Union Square Ventures | Out of the pill? Nurx is a web platform delivering birth control in less than a couple of hours, and it just raised $5.3 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures.
The startup launched in 2014 to bridge the gap between runnin... |
| 08.09.2016 | PillPack gets another $31.1 million for mail order pharmacy, medication adherence app | Manchester, New Hampshire-based virtual pharmacy PillPack has raised an additional $31.1 million according to a new SEC filing. The company did not disclose any details, but according to Fortune, Astral Capital – a new Boston-based venture ... |
| 07.09.2016 | Pharmacy disruptor PillPack has raised another $30.1M following expansion | The reality is that most older adults have at least one chronic condition and many have more, requiring them to take multiple medications. This population segment may also grapple with memory problems, making this streamlined approach to th... |
| 06.09.2016 | PillPack Is Raising a $40M Round | After clashing with pharmaceutical giant Express Scripts earlier this year, Somerville-based online pharmacy startup PillPack disclosed on Tuesday it is raising a new, $40 million round from investors.
In a new Form D filing, PillPack said ... |
| 18.05.2016 | Is this the Uber of pharmacies? These entrepreneurs think ordering prescription drugs needs a revamp | The idea is to change the concept of pharmacies from the inside out. Although its brick and mortar presence in Chelsea is a big part of it, there’s also an app. Users order their medication online and it’s delivered by a bicycle courier to ... |
| 17.02.2016 | The Online Pharmacy Race Gets A New Entrant: RobinHealth | You’ve probably noticed; on-demand pharmacy services are springing up like daisies. New York-based Zipdrug, for example, is an online app that processes customers’ payments and dispatches messengers to pick up their medicine for a $10 deliv... |
| 17.11.2015 | TinyRx Gets $5 Million In Seed To Take On PillPack And Other Prescription Delivery Services With Coupons | A number of investors, including Joe Lonsdale’s new fund 8 Partners, Google Ventures and StartX have added $5 million in initial funding to prescription delivery startup TinyRx. Several early employees from well-known startups such as Googl... |
| 16.07.2015 | Get Your Prescription Meds Delivered On-Demand With Zipdrug | While on-demand startups have made it easy to get your food delivered or clothes washed, there has yet to be a company that lets you skip the monthly 45-minute wait in the pharmacy line.
Just launched in NYC, Zipdrug is a on-demand prescrip... |
| 14.07.2015 | Meet Breezometer, Israel’s Air Quality Startup | Israel-based BreezoMeter wants to give you a real time air pollutant map that tells anyone what the air is like on their street, and takes the quantified-self movement to another level.
BreezoMeter‘s mission is to improve the health of bill... |
| 09.07.2015 | PillPack Launches Medication Reminders App for iPhone, Apple Watch | Full service pharmacy provider PillPack has launched its PillPack – Medication Reminders mobile app for iPhone and Apple Watch to eliminate the frustration of remembering to take medication. The app is the first mhealth app of its kind to a... |
| 04.07.2015 | 5 trends in digital health dealflow in H1, amidst an unusual investment landscape | t seems like a good opportunity to highlight some trends and observations.
Many investors funded more companies in first half than 2014 A StartUp Health report highlighted the most active digital health investors in the first six months of ... |
| 03.06.2015 | PillPack Raises $50M |
BOSTON, MA, Pharmacy that simplifies medication management, today announced it has completed a $50 million round of financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on PillPack
>> To export PillPack funding data to PDF and Exc... |
| 03.06.2015 | PillPack raises $50M for online medication mailing service | Manchester, New Hampshire-based virtual pharmacy PillPack has raised $50 million in a round led by CRV with participation from Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and SherpaVentures. This brings the company's total funding to $62... |
| 03.06.2015 | Pharmacy Delivery Startup PillPack Locks In $50 Million To Take On Walgreens | Pharmaceutical delivery startup PillPack has raised a $50 million growth round in Series C financing to start building retail pharmacies and take on other retail drugstores like RiteAid and Walgreens.
The startup launched in 2014 as a way t... |
| 03.06.2015 | PillPack Completes $50M Round of Financing | PillPack, a Boston, MA-based pharmacy for medication management, completed a $50m round of financing.
The round was led by CRV with participation from Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures. In conjunction with t... |
| 03.06.2015 | PillPack Raises $50M for Its High-Tech Pharmacy Biz | Next-gen online pharmacy PillPack on Wednesday said it’s raised $50 million in funding for expansion, which will include adding retail pharmacies in the U.S.
PillPack ships personalized/pre-sorted medications that customers order online, an... |
| 03.06.2015 | Medication management startup PillPack raises $50M to open retail pharmacies | In response to emailed questions, the company said it expects to use the funding to add more customer service, engineering, operations staff.
Each shipment includes a medication label that explains what each pill is and how it should be tak... |
| 15.04.2015 | Pharmacy Startup PillPack Could Change The Way America Takes Its Medicine | A tiny New Hampshire startup is revolutionizing the way millions of patients take their daily medicines--and threatening the business model of titans like CVS and Walgreens in the process. |
| 14.04.2015 | Online Pharmacy Startup PillPack Pushes Drug Delivery To California | PillPack, the online medication delivery service out of New Hampshire, is now available in California. This is the 47th state in the U.S. to receive the green light to allow consumers to order prescriptions, over-the-counter medications and... |
| 01.12.2014 | 5 approaches companies are taking to build better pill takers | Artificial Intelligence The developers of AI Cure‘s technology liken it to a personal trainer in a gym working directly with a client to achieve their goals. It involves facial recognition and motion-sensors in a mobile device. It records p... |
| 19.11.2014 | The Pillbox that Gets Personal | Pillpack / prices vary
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“I grew up in a family that owned and operated a pharmacy,” says T.J. Parker, who knows firsthand how confusing it can be for people to track which meds to take when, especially if they fill ... |
| 09.10.2014 | PillPack Announces $8.75M Financing |
MANCHESTER, NH, Pharmacy that simplifies medication management, has secured $8.75 million in additional capital funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on PillPack
>> To export PillPack funding data to PDF and Excel, cl... |
| 09.10.2014 | Funding daily: ‘Stealth mode’ edition | Aaaaaand here’s today’s biggest funding announcements from around the clock and around the world. Peel gets $50M from Alibaba
Alibaba is making a big bet on Peel, a company that’s tapped into a huge demand for video discovery with its smart... |
| 09.10.2014 | Online Pharmacy Startup PillPack Lands $8.75M, Led By Accel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A lot of technology startups get rightly criticized for not bothering to tackle a problem that will make anyone’s life better. PillPack is not one of those startups.
The Manch... |
| 09.10.2014 | PillPack Secures $8.75M in Funding | PillPack, a Manchester, N.H.-based pharmacy medication management platform provider, secured $8.75m in funding.
The round, which has raised $12.75m to date, was led by Accel Partners, with participation from Atlas Venture, High Line Venture... |
| 09.10.2014 | PillPack raises $8.75M more for online pharmacy service | PillPack, a direct-to-consumer mail order pharmacy that launched in February, has raised $8.75 million in funding. The round was led by Accel Partners, with additional participation from existing investor Atlas Venture, as well as High Line... |
| 09.10.2014 | With a fresh $8.75M, Pillpack's online pharmacy now delivers to 40 states | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Most people are lucky not to have to take any med... |
| 09.10.2014 | Medication manager PillPack raises $8.75M to help double staff and go nationwide by 2015 | The company began the year with 12 staff and expects to have 25 by the end of 2014. Next year it hopes to increase it to 50. Although sales and marketing are a priority, designers and developers will be part of that growth, too. It is curre... |
| 05.08.2014 | What’s driving millennials to health tech? | By Judy Wang
If you Google the term “millennials,” you’ll see that Google automatically fills in such search terms as “millennials lazy,” “millennials spoiled,” “millennials trophy kids” and “millennials entitled.” Ouch.
As part of the Mayo... |
| 02.07.2014 | Leader of MIT Hacking Medicine is teaching startups how to disrupt healthcare | The hackathons are structured to ensure a broad range of perspectives from physicians, nurses engineers and developers. Teams are also required to develop a business model for their solutions that identifies a specific unmet or inadequately... |
| 26.03.2014 | MedCity News Hangout: Moving digital health beyond the fittest people in the room | Ryan Beckland is the co-founder and CEO of Validic and he is setting the vision, recruiting talent, and fundraising. Mark Cuban has invested in Validic and the company just raised an additional $1.25 million. It developed an API that offers... |
| 07.02.2014 | This Week in Funding 2/3-2/7: Flashnotes, PillPack, Localytics & DataXu | Boston saw a few fundings over the last seven days. Overall, it was a good week for Techstars Boston (even though its directors may be on the move) with alums Localytics and PillPack both raising a round of capital. Also of note, DataXu too... |
| 04.02.2014 | PillPack raises $4M for mail, web-based pharmacy | Manchester, New Hampshire-based virtual pharmacy PillPack raised $4 million from Atlas Venture and Founder Collective, the company announced today. The company raised the money back in July 2013, and have already used much of it to build it... |
| 04.02.2014 | With daily pill packets and smart software, PillPack redesigns the retail pharmacy experience | Robots and a good sense of design have changed the way pharmacist TJ Parker works – and the way his customers manage their prescriptions.
Today he and co-founder Elliot Cohen are launching PillPack, a mail-order pharmacy aimed at making it ... |
| 04.02.2014 | PillPack Takes On CVS And Walgreens By Mail, Launches A Full-Service, Subscription-Based Online Pharmacy | According to studies from the Mayo Clinic, more than 20 percent of Americans take more than five prescription medications each day. This fact goes a long way to showing how big of a role the pharmacy has come to play in millions of lives. W... |
| 04.02.2014 | PillPack Raises $4M | PillPack, a Manchester, New Hampshire-based pharmacy that simplifies medication management, raised $4m in funding.
Backers included Atlas Venture, Founder Collective, IDEO, TechStars, Zen Chu, Sridhar Iyengar, Lucy McQuilken, Andy Palmer, D... |
| 04.02.2014 | PillPack launches its full-service online pharmacy in 31 states | For people with a chronic health condition, managing medication is typically an ongoing challenge. Recent reports estimate that medical mistakes are the eighth most common cause of death in the United States.
A tiny startup called PillPack ... |
| 04.02.2014 | PillPack Launches with $4M |
MANCHESTER, NH, Pharmacy that simplifies medication management, has launched in 31 states with $4 million financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on PillPack
>> To export PillPack funding data to PDF and Excel, click ... |
| 17.10.2013 | Can we hack our way to better healthcare? | By Tom Ulrich
Hackathons are quickly growing beyond Red Bull- and Dorito-fueled code-fests into fertile grounds for new technologies and products that potentially could improve medicine and health care.
But beyond individual events, could h... |
| 12.09.2013 | Hacking pediatrics: Improving the patient experience | By Michael Docktor
Michael Docktor, MD, is director of Clinical Mobile Solutions at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatric gastroenterologist with a research and clinical interest in inflammatory bowel disease.
How do the most disruptiv... |
| 06.09.2013 | Vote today and help these 10 smart health ideas win a spot at SxSW 2014 | You don’t have to have a badge for the event to vote (although you should have one if you don’t already). Just create an account and vote.
Here are the 10 conversations I’d like to hear at the event: lots of design in healthcare and patient... |
| 29.05.2013 | Forget Sexy, Startups Today Look To Disrupt The Mundane | To be a successful startup company, you don’t always need to enter the biggest, sexiest industry you can find. Some of the most interesting startups these days are finding ways to disrupt what is old, stodgy and stagnant.
Take a look at the... |
| 25.02.2013 | TechStars Boston Spring 2013 Class Announced | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars, the top-shelf startup accelerator program, is kicking off its newest Boston class with a group that covers a wide array of sectors and includes several teams from o... |
| - | Pharmacy disruptor PillPack has raised another $30.1M following expansion | PillPack, a digital health startup intent on disrupting the pharmacy experience, has raised more than $30.1 million in a bid to expand its national customer base. In an email, Co-founder and CEO TJ Parker confirmed the amount listed in the ... |
| - | Amazon will acquire PillPack, ending months of speculation | After months of speculation that online pharmacy PillPack was to be acquired, it turns out that Amazon, not Walmart, emerged as the buyer. It’s fitting since the deal also seems to address speculation over how online retailer Amazon would m... |
| - | Medication manager PillPack raises $8.75M to help double staff and go nationwide by 2015 | PillPack, a medication adherence business that was born at an MIT hacking medicine weekend, has raised a Series B round partly to boost its sales and marketing muscle through direct to consumer ads. CEO and co-founder TJ Parker told MedCity... |
| - | Leader of MIT Hacking Medicine is teaching startups how to disrupt healthcare | The hackathons are structured to ensure a broad range of perspectives from physicians, nurses engineers and developers. Teams are also required to develop a business model for their solutions that identifies a specific unmet or inadequately... |
| - | With daily pill packets and smart software, PillPack redesigns the retail pharmacy experience | Robots and a good sense of design have changed the way pharmacist TJ Parker works – and the way his customers manage their prescriptions.
Today he and co-founder Elliot Cohen are launching PillPack, a mail-order pharmacy aimed at making it ... |
| - | 5 approaches companies are taking to build better pill takers | Ask a question like how many companies are chasing after the $300 billion market opportunity of medication adherence and you’re liable to discover that it’s easier to narrow down companies that aren’t pursuing a strategy tied to this comple... |
| - | MedCity News Hangout: Moving digital health beyond the fittest people in the room | At a conference in San Diego this month, a keynote speaker asked how many people in the audience were wearing a fitness tracker. About a dozen people raised their hands.
“It’s always the healthiest people you know who are wearing a FitBit,”... |
| - | Аптека по подписке привлекла $50 млн | Американский сервис аптечной подписки PillPack получил в новом раунде инвестирования $50 млн. Деньги пойдут на строительство собственных аптек и покупку заведений других фармацевтических сетей.
Стартап по доставке медикаментов на дом запуст... |
| - | 5 trends in digital health dealflow in H1, amidst an unusual investment landscape | The first half of 2015 has been defined by pretty robust digital health dealflow.It didn’t even bother to slow down for the holiday weekend. If anything, activity picked up.
Despite the four-day work week, the end of one fiscal year and the... |
| - | ZappRx closes $25M Series B in bid to ease onerous specialty drug prescription processing | ZappRx, a healthcare startup that developed a technology platform to speed up the time-consuming process of processing specialty drug prescriptions, has closed a $25 million Series B round, according to a company news release. The goal of t... |
| - | Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo app by OWHealth
Menstrual cycle trackers tend to get mixed reviews about their accuracy but that hasn’t had much impact on the popularity of these women’s health apps. Claiming it has reached a milestone of 10 million monthly active use... |
| - | Successful vertical integration in healthcare requires past failure | The phrase, “Past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes,” can be found in the fine print of most investment literature. As the healthcare industry is trying to find efficiencies and better outcomes, institutions from providers ... |
| - | Vote today and help these 10 smart health ideas win a spot at SxSW 2014 | **UPDATE: The good folks at SxSW have extended the voting until Sunday. Put this on your to do list for the weekend.
Today is the last day to support your favorite innovative thinkers in health by helping them get on the agenda at SxSW Inte... |
| - | Medication management startup PillPack raises $50M to open retail pharmacies | PillPack, a pharmacy that produces packets of multiple medications to make it easier to comply with care plans, has raised a fresh round of capital, according to a company statement. It wants to use the $50 million fundraise to support a pu... |
| - | Is this the Uber of pharmacies? These entrepreneurs think ordering prescription drugs needs a revamp | Drugstores see themselves as so much more than purveyors of toiletries and drugs. Before Duane Reade’s makeover, I never would have thought of it as a place to eat sushi, let alone grab a growler of beer. But drugstores are going through ki... |
