Newton, MA-based MedNetworks, a provider of social network analytics software for the healthcare sector, has partnered with Tennessee-based Healthways, a maker of personalized health management programs. Healthways will use the MedNetworks technology, which was developed by Harvard professor and social scientist Nicholas Christakis, for population health management and tracking how individuals influence each other’s health decisions. Earlier this month, MedNetworks raised $5 million in a Series A round from Excel Venture Management.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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