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These 11 companies will be featured in the MedCity ENGAGE Innovation Showcase June 5-6 in Washington, D.C.

GE offers an inside look at how it’s innovating in cancer care (video)

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GE offers an inside look at how it’s innovating in cancer care (video)

May 20, 2013 10:34 am by | 0 Comments

Remember back in the fall of 2011 when GE committed $1 billion to cancer research and development? A new video put out by the GE Global Research Center commemorating National Cancer Research Month gives a glimpse into some of the work the multidisciplinary research team is doing along several points ... Read more
PatientsLikeMe opens health outcomes measurement hub for researcher-patient collaboration

PatientsLikeMe opens health outcomes measurement hub for researcher-patient collaboration

May 20, 2013 4:49 pm by | 0 Comments

As part of its efforts to give patients a stronger voice in clinical trial design, PatientsLikeMe has opened up a hub where researchers, clinicians, academics and patients can refine and ... Read more
Link-Age Ventures raising money for a new fund aimed at tech for seniors

Link-Age Ventures raising money for a new fund aimed at tech for seniors

May 20, 2013 3:58 pm by | 0 Comments

Ohio-based private equity firm Link-Age Ventures is raising a $20 million to $35 million technology fund this year. The team involved says that the fund will invest in everything from ... Read more
Mobile technology could save billions of dollars on healthcare costs

Mobile technology could save billions of dollars on healthcare costs

May 20, 2013 3:19 pm by | 0 Comments

Mobile health technology provides patients with greater opportunities to manage their diseases and communicate with providers. On stage today at HealthBeat 2013, Dr. Ivor Horn of the National Children’s Medical ... Read more
A patient simulator for primary care physicians starts with diabetes

A patient simulator for primary care physicians starts with diabetes

May 20, 2013 3:16 pm by | 0 Comments

The brainstorming for how to deal with the impending physician shortage is happening on many different fronts. Some think cutting the length of medical school from four to three years ... Read more
HIPAA compliant right out of the Box API

HIPAA compliant right out of the Box API

May 20, 2013 3:03 pm by | 0 Comments

When health IT professionals are calling out for better ways to view patient data, third party applications are the obvious answer. But without HIPAA compliance, the task is more than ... Read more

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Be ready for Electronic Medical Records

Be ready for Electronic Medical Records

The fundamental principle of any Electronic Medical Record being implemented at a practice is that all members of the practice ... Read more

America Has A Health Care Paradox

America Has A Health Care Paradox

We have a real paradox in American healthcare. On the one hand we have exceptionally well educated and well trained ... Read more

Increasing Profitability with Practice Management Software

Increasing Profitability with Practice Management Software

Many care providers are already aware of the vast benefits of practice management software, but it is prudent to talk ... Read more

Single sign-on provider is on a mission to “remove excess clicks” from hospital IT

Single sign-on provider is on a mission to “remove excess clicks” from hospital IT

May 20, 2013 2:56 pm by | 0 Comments

While some hospitals claim to be seeing benefits of electronic medical records, others are still complaining that they’re cumbersome and time-consuming. Keeping digitized personal health information private and secure, while ... Read more
Genomics startup NanoString files for IPO in spite of consistent losses

Genomics startup NanoString files for IPO in spite of consistent losses

May 20, 2013 1:37 pm by | 0 Comments

NanoString, a genomics company with special technology for helping cancer researchers, has just filed an S-1, declaring to the SEC (and the reading world) its intention to go public. The ... Read more
Moving from a volume-based to a value-based healthcare system

Moving from a volume-based to a value-based healthcare system

May 20, 2013 1:31 pm by | 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO’ We are at the beginning of the beginning of a new age for health care. Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the practice of medicine, but Dr. David Levin, ... Read more
Mostashari: Making healthcare cheaper is the biggest opportunity in the market today

Mostashari: Making healthcare cheaper is the biggest opportunity in the market today

May 20, 2013 1:07 pm by | 0 Comments

United State’s national coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari believes health tech innovation is only really going to grow when there are economic incentives. For him, there are three major ... Read more
Anticancer drug developer Karyopharm raises more than $48M in series B round

Anticancer drug developer Karyopharm raises more than $48M in series B round

May 20, 2013 10:47 am by | 0 Comments

Biotechnology company Karyopharm Therapeutics has raised $48.2 million in a series B round for an innovative group of molecules to combat cancer, according to a company statement.Karyopharm’s approach, in phase ... Read more
Medtronic seeks reversal of appeals court’s decision in patent case

Medtronic seeks reversal of appeals court’s decision in patent case

May 20, 2013 9:41 am by | 0 Comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a patent dispute concerning Medtronic Inc over medical devices it manufactures that give the heart electrical jolts when ... Read more
After tough times last year, Peregrine Pharma reaches agreement with FDA on late-stage trial for lung cancer drug

After tough times last year, Peregrine Pharma reaches agreement with FDA on late-stage trial for lung cancer drug

May 20, 2013 9:40 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Peregrine Pharmaceuticals said it reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the design of a late-stage trial for its experimental lung cancer drug.The late-stage ... Read more
Experimental insomnia drug appears effective, but FDA question dosing levels

Experimental insomnia drug appears effective, but FDA question dosing levels

May 20, 2013 8:59 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug suvorexant appears generally effective, according to reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but they questioned the company's proposed dosing levels.The ... Read more
From 13 hips to 2: How one hospital is cutting costs now

From 13 hips to 2: How one hospital is cutting costs now

May 20, 2013 6:37 am by | 3 Comments

Payers can take it slow with payment reform and wellness programs, but hospitals need cost-saving changes now. Comments from Ken Paulus of Allina Health stood out in a crowd of ... Read more
Elan fends off takeover bid, plans acquisitions

Elan fends off takeover bid, plans acquisitions

May 20, 2013 2:12 am by | 0 Comments

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Elan will still have $1.2 billion of cash left to spend if shareholders approve its first package of acquisitions, and plans to announce more deals in the ... Read more