| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.03.2025 | GoodRx Joins NCPDP's Elite Partner Program, Demonstrating Long-Term Commitment to Advancing Healthcare Standards | NCPDP
GoodRx Becomes Fifth Elite Partner for NCPDP, Strengthening Commitment to Healthcare Innovation
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- NCPDP announced today that GoodRx (Nasdaq: GDRX) has joined its Elite Partner Prog... |
| 07.03.2025 | JumpStart Ventures: First Closing For NEXT Fund III At Nearly $25 Million | JumpStart Ventures announced it has achieved the first closing of NEXT Fund III, raising nearly $25 million toward its $50 million target. And NEXT Fund III is supported by the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) Ohio, institutio... |
| 06.08.2024 | NCPDP Announces 2024 Virtual Educational Summit, Focused on Industry Preparedness for its CMS/ONC-Named Health IT Standards | NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc.) Logo
Register to learn from the experts and prepare for implementation of updated versions of NCPDP's SCRIPT and Formulary & Benefit Standards and the newly named NCPDP Real ... |
| 07.06.2024 | Sware Revolutionizes Software Validation for Life Sciences Industry | A deep dive into how Sware's innovative platform is reshaping the validation process for pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies, eliminating validation debt and streamlining operations.
In a world where software updates... |
| 06.06.2024 | Sware, a software validation platform for the life sciences industry, raises $6M | The company automates the validation process that the FDA requires every time software is updated
Every time software that pharma, medical device and biotech companies use for development and manufacturing gets updated, the FDA requires it ... |
| 05.06.2024 | NCPDP Foundation Names CoverMyMeds as Fourth Founder's Gift Donor | NCPDP Foundation Logo
Gift will support research projects for the Coordination of Care and Innovation strategic initiative
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The NCPDP Foundation announced today a new partnership with Cov... |
| 09.02.2022 | Report finds patients delaying care, prescription cost challenges and care teams impacted | A new medication access report from CoverMyMeds found that after year two of the pandemic, 84% of patients reported delaying or forgoing in-person healthcare visits for a variety of reasons.
Overall, the report found that patients reported ... |
| 05.11.2021 | NCPDP to Explore VBAs for Prescription Medications at its Virtual Educational Summit, November 15-16, 2021 | NCPDP Logo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB) November 05, 2021
NCPDP announced its 2021 Educational Summit on Value Based Arrangements (VBA) for Prescription Medications, a virtual event to be held from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST on November 15 and... |
| 09.03.2021 | Americans Increasingly Turn To Pharmacists For Help Finding Affordable Drugs, New Study Shows | Young female customer in pharmacy is showing something on her phone to the pharmacist. Pharmacist is ... [+] standing next to the customer. They are wearing face protective masks.getty |
| 12.01.2021 | What Could A Healthcare Marketplace Look Like? GoodRx Is Trying To Show Us | GoodRx qualified as a unicorn prior to its IPO, but its story and ambition is rare enough that it may warrant a new mythological creature dedication. Founded in 2011, the nine year-old digital health company went public last September with ... |
| 01.01.2021 | Who’s choosing Americans’ medications — doctors or insurers? The bane of prior authorization | New Year’s Day, the day of new beginnings, is a day health care providers like me dread. It starts the annual deluge of requests to renew “prior authorizations” — a bureaucratic tactic that insurers use to see how dedicated we are to the tr... |
| 29.10.2020 | Tech is most represented in the top 20 companies during COVID-19 | Image: iStockphoto/MamikaStock
The adjustment to telecommuting, spurred by the still-looming COVID-19 crisis, has certainly been affected by company policies and managerial styles, yet it’s often been left to the remote-worker to find just ... |
| 22.06.2020 | For Health Tech Startups, Data Is Their Lifeline Now More Than Ever | 69 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Vignesh Ravikumar, a principal at Sierra Ventures. Sierra is a Bay Area-based early-stage venture capital firm investing globally with a focus on next-generation enterprise and emerging technolog... |
| 22.06.2020 | For Health Tech Startups, Data Is Their Lifeline Now More Than Ever | 73 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Vignesh Ravikumar, a principal at Sierra Ventures. Sierra is a Bay Area-based early-stage venture capital firm investing globally with a focus on next-generation enterprise and emerging technolog... |
| 18.12.2017 | Why Ohio health care startups saw a 206% funding increase | While there are a number of Midwestern cities that are home to promising health care startups, including Minneapolis and Chicago, Ohio is quickly positioning itself as a major player. The state has seen an influx of funding to health care a... |
| 18.12.2017 | Why Ohio health care startups saw a 206% funding increase in 2017 | 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!
While there are a number of Midwestern cities tha... |
| 18.12.2017 | Why Ohio health care startups saw a 206% funding increase in 2017 | While there are a number of Midwestern cities that are home to promising health care startups, including Minneapolis and Chicago, Ohio is quickly positioning itself as a major player. The state has seen an influx of funding to health care a... |
| 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... |
| 05.04.2017 | Rock Health highlights geographic diversity of digital health M&A deals | The biggest deal for the quarter was unquestionably McKesson’s $1.1 billion acquisition of CoverMyMeds, a Columbus, Ohio-based technology developer to automate medication prior authorizations for pharmacies, prescribers, payers and pharmacy... |
| 26.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 26 | BIG, BRAZEN M&A
PE vs. Corporate: If yesterday’s last-minute buyout of AppDynamics is any indication, 2017 could be less about the return of big IPOs and more about the continuation of big, brazen M&A. That’s bad news for IPO banker... |
| 25.01.2017 | McKesson acquiring CoverMyMeds for at least $1.1 billion (updated) | The companies expect the deal to close in the first half of McKesson’s 2018 fiscal year, which starts April 1, 2017.
“Our announced acquisition of CoverMyMeds supports McKesson’s commitment to provide a comprehensive set of services and sol... |
| 01.08.2016 | Why do digital health startups fail? | “You run the risk that people won’t use your product because they don’t think it’s for them,” Clapp said. That can be a challenge even within one market segment.
The direct-to-consumer market is particularly tough to penetrate because peopl... |
| 20.03.2016 | My city just lost a startup to Silicon Valley. Tell me again why that’s a bad thing? | Last month, Cleveland startup Phenom got some great news. It was accepted into prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator 500 startups. The catch? The founders had to leave Northeast Ohio and move to San Francisco in order to make this happen.
... |
| 20.03.2016 | My city just lost a startup to Silicon Valley. Tell me again why that’s a bad thing? | 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!
Last month, Cleveland startup Phenom got some gre... |
| 20.08.2015 | Morning Read: Valeant wants to buy Sprout in $1B deal, Allscripts and CoverMyMeds collaborate | Allscripts and CoverMyMeds have agreed to partner to help patients receive their prescriptions faster and increase the number of health plans available for Allscripts eAuth software clients.
Allscripts eAuth software enables providers to qu... |
| 05.11.2014 | Francisco Partners Invests in CoverMyMeds | Francisco Partners Invests in CoverMyMeds
CoverMyMeds to Expand Product Offering and Support for Customers Through Partnership with Prominent Investment Firm
CoverMyMeds, a leader in healthcare technology, today announced a growth investm... |
| 22.08.2014 | Here are 10 of the fastest growing health IT companies, according to Inc. | Crescendo Bioscience was the fastest growing healthcare company. The 12-year-old molecular diagnostic company in San Francisco, which Myriad Genetics acquired last year, did an impressive sprint to its ranking of 7th this year compared with... |
| 21.08.2013 | Ones to watch: 6 thriving healthcare companies on the Inc. 5000 list | Crescendo Bioscience (San Francisco). With the mission of enabling more effective management of rheumatoid arthritis, Crescendo is developing molecular diagnostics and corresponding products to sharpen clinicians’ understanding of the under... |
| 20.05.2011 | CoverMyMeds raises $1M for prior authorization technology | “It’s all about grabbing as much business as possible because we’ve done something that no one else has been able to do in this space,” he said.
The Twinsburg, Ohio, company has developed Web- and phone-based tools that speed up and automat... |
| 28.09.2010 | CoverMyMeds lands $650,000 from Ohio | A state board has approved a $546,055, seven-year tax credit for an expansion of CoverMyMeds LLC‘s Columbus office.
The Twinsburg, Ohio-based company has developed web- and phone-based tools to speed and automate the submission of prior aut... |
| 28.09.2010 | CoverMyMeds gets $546k tax credit to expand Columbus office | “The process can be very time-consuming and frustrating,” said Matt Scantland, one of three principals and co-founders of the company.
CoverMyMeds’ Columbus project involves the lease and renovation of 10,000 square feet of office space tha... |
| 06.07.2010 | CoverMyMeds gets $250K for tools to automate prior authorization | Tools developed by CoverMyMeds cut the request submissions process by at least 70 percent to five minutes. The company will use its investment from investment the arm of venture developer JumpStart Inc. to refine its product and begin to in... |
| 06.07.2010 | JumpStart Ventures backs CoverMyMeds to the tune of $250,000 | By Mary Vanac
Healthcare technology and services company CoverMyMeds LLC received a $250,000 investment commitment from JumpStart Ventures to develop its application for automated submission of requests to cover patient prescriptions that h... |
| - | Report finds patients delaying care, prescription cost challenges and care teams impacted | A new medication access report from CoverMyMeds found that after year two of the pandemic, 84% of patients reported delaying or forgoing in-person healthcare visits for a variety of reasons.
Overall, the report found that patients reported ... |
| - | Morning Read: Valeant wants to buy Sprout in $1B deal, Allscripts and CoverMyMeds collaborate | TOP STORIES
Just a few days after winning FDA approval for its female libido enhancing drug Addyi, Sprout Pharmaceuticals has a suitor. Valeant Pharmaceuticals plans to make a $1B deal to acquire the business. The Wall Street Journal cited ... |
| - | Ones to watch: 6 thriving healthcare companies on the Inc. 5000 list | A quick look through the health portion of this year’s Inc. 5000 list reinforces what we already know: the health IT market is booming.
More than a quarter of the 41 health-related companies that landed in the top 500 were directly tied to ... |
| - | Rock Health highlights geographic diversity of digital health M&A deals | By Rock Health’s count, there were 20 digital health mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2017. Although Castlight Health’s acquisition of Jiff was interesting, it’s not the size of the deals that’s a head turner so much as the ... |
| - | McKesson acquiring CoverMyMeds for at least $1.1 billion (updated) | McKesson may be moving its McKesson Provider Solutions division into a new venture with Change Healthcare, but the San Francisco-based megacorporation is continuing to expand its health IT holdings.
Wednesday, McKesson divulged plans to acq... |
| - | CoverMyMeds gets $250K for tools to automate prior authorization | Healthcare technology and services company CoverMyMeds LLC has received a $250,000 investment commitment from JumpStart Ventures to develop its application for automated submission of requests to cover patient prescriptions that have been r... |
| - | Here are 10 of the fastest growing health IT companies, according to Inc. | The interest in using health IT tools as a way to improve healthcare delivery and efficiency has produced many rapidly growing healthcare companies, many of which can trace their origins within one or two years of Obamacare’s passage. These... |
| - | Why do digital health startups fail? | Last week, Geoff Clapp opened up about some of the factors that led to the shut down of Better, despite having a successful exit with a previous business Health Hero Network. Moving beyond the Tech Tonics podcast, Clapp, who advises healthc... |
