A handful of UPMC Enterprises portfolio companies were featured in news stories last month or made announcements about new products, awards, and partnerships.
Check out links to their news below.
Key takeaways from a HLTH conference panel on the challenges facing health care entrepreneurs were featured in a recent story in MedCity News. Evolent Health CEO Frank Williams was quoted throughout, providing a glimpse into the challenges entrepreneurs face when trying to break into the health care industry.
Health Fidelity announced in early May that CEO Steve Whitehurst would be a featured panelist at this year’s HLTH conference. The session, titled “Mind the Gap: Smart, Adaptive Tech Will Close Human Gaps,” explored how technologies, like artificial intelligence and workflow automation, will transform the industry, restore the human touch, and improve quality care by relieving humans of the burden of cumbersome, manual processes.
KLAS research published its inaugural report, Decisions Insights 2018: National Trends & Best Practices, which features Health Catalyst as one of just eight companies named to its “A-List.” An “A” listing requires both an overall KLAS score of 86 or higher, and a retention rate of more than 91 percent of current go-forward customers. KLAS says the report is designed to “help provider organizations understand which vendors have market energy and why other organizations are considering these vendors.”
Health Catalyst is lending a hand in the community by joining the KidsCode program. Volunteers from Health Catalyst will join forces with other businesses to teach free basic computer science and programming to local elementary school students at seven Utah schools.
Becker’s Hospital Review published a brief covering the news that Aetna is selling its health information exchange vendor Medicity to Health Catalyst. The brief notes that financial terms were not disclosed and that transaction is expected to close within 90 days.
Modern Healthcare recently published its annual Best Places to Work list. This year’s list of approximately 150 companies includes Health Catalyst. Final rankings among the companies will be revealed at an awards dinner in late September at the publication’s Workplace of the Future Conference.
Prodigo’s Executive Vice President, Michael DeLuca, was featured in a May Q&A with Spend Matters. In the piece, DeLuca talks about what makes Prodigo unique, that some of its best features are designed specifically for the health care space, and offers his take on where the procurement sector is headed in the next several years.
