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.
Vivify Health was recently awarded a 2018 North America Product Line Strategy Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan for its range of remote patient monitoring solutions. The company noted that the enormous value of data coming from its monitoring devices position Vivify to become a leader in evidence-based care coordination and population management.
Vivify Health CEO Eric Rock shared his thoughts on the opioid crisis and his reaction to a new health act in this piece from Becker’s Hospital Review. Rock was featured alongside quotes from eight other industry professionals.
Vivify Health continues to grow, announcing that the company has more than doubled its every year since 2014. The company also reported that it has now surpassed 5 million monitored days across its customer base, which includes more than 700 hospitals and 200 non-hospital sites of care.
Prodigo’s Michael DeLuca was featured in Healthcare Purchasing News on the topic of how to help ASC or outpatient facilities improve their supply chain operations. He mentions tips on extending the footprint of your ERP to leveraging big data.
Health Catalyst was included in a Modern Healthcare story focused on the impacts of social determinants in health. The company was quoted regarding its partnerships with health systems, including UPMC, and how these partnerships have helped foster collaboration regarding health data.
Healthcare IT News profiled the work done to combine Health Quest’s homegrown enterprise data warehouse with Health Catalyst. The company’s goal is to streamline operations to achieve a “Triple Aim” of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care.
Gallup recently published a report highlighting 39 companies dedicated to creating a culture of engagement in the workplace. Among those companies was Health Catalyst, an organization that realizes exceptional performance by creating an outstanding workplace culture, according to Gallup.
Smart Business Pittsburgh released an “unscientific list” of Pittsburgh startup and tech companies to watch. This year’s list included ALung Technologies, a UPMC portfolio company. The story notes that ALung recently closed $36 million in financing to develop its artificial lung technology.
Xealth CEO Mike McSherry was featured throughout an article in VentureBeat regarding startup funding in the health care industry. McSherry talked about how health care differs from other markets and the importance of finding an investor who can provide both funding and product adoption.
