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Earlier this week, we released our annual funding report, which explored the “bubbliness” of digital health amidst record dollars and tempered exits. o expand on our findings and get to the heart of what the funding environment means for the future of the sector, we spoke with ...

Seventeen companies in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area drew venture capital backing in 2018, according to the new PricewaterhouseCoopers/CB Insights MoneyTree report. The single largest local deal in the fourth quarter of the year was for Aspen RxHealth, a Tampa company with an app-based intervention technology that connects pharmacists with patients to deliver clinical services. Aspen raised $9 million from Flare Capital Partners in a Series A round of funding in December.

Iora Health today announced that Tyler Jung, MD, joined as Chief Medical Officer on January 7, 2019. Jung, a physician executive with more than 20 years of experience in managed care, population health, innovative care delivery, transitioning from volume to value, and leadership at the provider and plan level, joins Iora from Molina Healthcare, where he served as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Jung's expertise in clinical performance delivery will be key in furthering Iora's alignment of cost and quality.

I did not know that “pentafecta” was actually a word, and while it does not perfectly describe the background of Flare Capital’s Dan Gebremedhin, it is serviceable as it suggests the extraordinary range he has.

As we’ve seen broadly, near-term reimbursement defines incentives and predicts behavior in the healthcare system. In 2016, we believed that by early 2019, we’d be well on our way to mainstream adoption of value-based care (VBC), and that most populations would be actively managed by ACOs or would be covered by risk-bearing health plan – provider contracts.