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Huennekens out, Azarbarzin in at Verb Surgical | Personnel Moves, July 24, 2019

July 24, 2019 By Brad Perriello

Veteran medtech executive Scott Huennekens is out as CEO of Verb Surgical, the robot-assisted surgery joint venture between Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and Google parent Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL), which today installed Kurt Azarbarzin in the corner office. Azarbarzin, himself a medical device industry longtimer, was co-founder & CEO of SurgiQuest until its 2016 acquisition by ConMed (NSDQ:CNMD), where he was named […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), currenthealth, Hologic, Johnson and Johnson, maxqai, micronsolutions, NeuroPace, Optum, Personnel Moves, Sorrel Medical, Tactile Systems Technology, Verb Surgical, Zynex

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum sues VP who left for Amazon venture

January 24, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum IT-based health services unit has sued former VP David Smith, claiming that he misappropriated trade secrets before leaving to join a new healthcare venture supported by Amazon. Smith’s lawyers are seeking to move the case to arbitration. The complaint, filed Jan. 16 in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, accuses Smith of printing out […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Featured, Health Information Technology, Legal News, News Well Tagged With: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, Optum, UnitedHealth Group

Optum CEO Renfro steps down to lead expanded investment fund

March 16, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

In a major personnel shift, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced this week that Larry Renfro, CEO of its subsidiary Optum, will step away from the corner office to become managing partner of Optum Ventures and its expanded $600 million investment fund. Ex-GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) chief executive, Andrew Witty, will take Renfro’s place as CEO of Optum on […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Funding Roundup, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: GlaxoSmithKline plc, Optum, UnitedHealth Group

Mediware taps ex-Optum exec Miller for CEO | Personnel Moves July 28, 2017

July 28, 2017 By Fink Densford

Healthcare tech group Mediware Information Systems said it tapped former United-Health Group subsidiary OptumInsight chief exec Bill Miller as its new CEO, replacing Kelly Mann, who has served in the corner office since 2007. Mediware said that Miller will work with the Lenexa, Kansas-based company’s management to “build and accelerate the company’s platform” to expand […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News Tagged With: Bolder Surgical (formerly JustRight Surgical), endogastricsolutions, g&lscientific, Mediware Information Systems Inc, Millstone Medical Outsourcing, Myomo Inc, Optum, OrthoAccel Technologies Inc., Personnel Moves, UnitedHealth Group, VentriPoint, Wound Management Technologies, Zimmer Biomet

Medtronic issues update on debt financing before Covidien merger | Medtech Wall Street news for the week of October 27, 2014

October 30, 2014 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

Medtronic updates on $43B Covidien deal financing

October 24, 2014 by Brad Perriello

Filed Under: News Well, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Alere, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, Covidien, Nevro Corp., Optum, Skyline Medical, Standard & Poor's

Alere to sell Alere Health unit to Optum for $600m

October 28, 2014 By Val Kennedy Leave a Comment

Alere to sell Alere Health unit to Optum for $600m

Alere agreed to sell Alere Health, its health-management unit, to health-services provider Optum for $600 million in cash in order to focus on its core rapid diagnostics business.

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Digital Health, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: 2014, Alere, Optum, Q3

Boston Scientific seeks heart failure innovation in partnership with Optum Labs

May 6, 2014 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Boston Scientific chases heart failure innovation in partnership with Optum Labs

Filed Under: News Well, Research & Development Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Innovation, Mayo Clinic, Optum

Optum and Mayo Clinic look to improve patient care

January 17, 2013 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

Optum and Mayo Clinic started a new joint venture, Optum Labs, aiming to improve the quality of long- term patient care.

Both parties will provide information assets, technologies, knowledge tools and scientific expertise to related organizations to solve patient care challenges, according to a press release.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Mayo Clinic, Optum, Patient Safety

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