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By  Jessica Hagen 10:26 am October 26, 2022
Digital diagnostics company ixlayer announced it will produce CVS Health's branded at-home sample collection kits.  Ixlayer's kits can test for Lyme disease, Vitamin D levels, thyroid function and sexually transmitted infections. Users are also provided education and information about what the results mean.  Consumers can now purchase the CVS Health-branded tests online or pick up a test in-store...
A woman putting a test sample in a bag to return in the mail.
By  Emily Olsen 11:37 am September 9, 2022
Morgan Health, JPMorgan Chase's healthcare business unit, announced a $20 million strategic investment in home diagnostics startup LetsGetChecked.  The investment was made as part of a Series D-2 round led by Casdin Capital and Transformation Capital. LetsGetChecked closed a $150 million Series D round last year, building on raises in 2018, 2019 and 2020.  WHAT THEY DO LetsGetChecked offers at-...
Former Haven Dr. CEO Atul Gawande
By  Dave Muoio 02:36 pm January 4, 2021
Haven, the high-profile joint venture from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, is officially calling it quits after a nearly three-year run. The company had sought to leverage each of the three business' strengths to devise a new model for employee health coverage and access to care, but launched relatively few projects and shed a number of key employees near the end of its lifetime....
By  Jonah Comstock 02:17 pm June 24, 2019
Evidence is mounting that 2019 is going to be the year of the digital health IPO, and the latest to run up that flag is Phreesia, a digitial health company that has been quietly innovating in the patient check-in space for more than a decade. New York City-based Phreesia announced today the filing of its S-1 form with the SEC, though the number of shares being offered and their initial value are...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:49 pm April 27, 2018
According to a group of 300 healthcare stakeholders surveyed in Venrock's 2018 Healthcare Prognosis Survey, Amazon is the tech company to watch in the healthcare space — even if they're pretty well split on the prospects for the Amazon-JP Morgan-Berkshire Hathaway project. When asked which of five tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and IBM) would make the most progress in 2018, 51...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:56 pm April 9, 2018
When Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway announced in January that they were collaborating on a healthcare venture, most of the focus was on Amazon, the tech giant that has been dancing around a proper healthcare entrance for a number of years.  But the other two partners are also interesting — what makes an investment bank and a conglomerate real estate company interested in the...
By  Bernie Monegain 10:44 am January 30, 2018
Amazon, the world’s ubiquitous online store, revealed today it is collaborating with Warren Buffet, who heads Berkshire Hathaway, and the bank JPMorgan Chase to build an independent, nonprofit healthcare company with the goal of increasing user satisfaction and reducing costs.  The first order of business, the partners announced, is focusing on technology solutions that will provide U.S....