Although it’s trying to keep quiet about its product, a medical device startup developing a new treatment for obesity revealed this week it’s in the middle of raising $5.5 million.According to a recently filed SEC document, Vibrynt Inc. has raised half of a $5.5 million offering from five investors.Vibrynt’s website provides little information about the [...]

There’s an interesting discussion brewing in several healthcare-focused LinkedIn groups, sparked by this question: What things must healthcare reform include to be successful?Anthony Wunsh, President and CEO of Medical Pay Solutions, asked this question to thousands of industry stakeholders in about 20 LinkedIn groups, including Healthcare Executives Network and Society of Physician Entrepreneurs. A lively [...]

While some doctors and nurses are putting down their iPads, others are picking them up.Hubbard Hill Retirement Community in Elkhart, Indiana is paying less nurse overtime and improving communication among nurses and doctors thanks to iPads and a new program developed by a nearby startup called Carex Technologies.Carex’s first product, HEAL (Handoffs for Extended/Assisted Living), [...]

In his latest project, Dr. John Talley, the lead scientist behind Pfizer’s Celebrex and seven other drugs that have been marketed in the U.S., is trying his hand at developing a cancer medication with improved efficacy and safety.He’s the chief scientific officer at Euclises Pharmaceuticals, a St. Louis, Missouri startup currently looking to raise a [...]

Take growing adoption of smartphones and tablets, add anxiety about regulation in healthcare and an empowered patient population, and you get an explosion of consumer-focused digital health ventures.That’s where we’re at now, thanks to investors who have reached into their pocketbooks to fund a pool of emerging digital health companies.Granted, there’s a lot of noise [...]

A biopharmaceutical startup developing a new treatment for asthma that targets the nitric oxide signaling system has raised $50,000 of a planned $500,000 fundraise, according to recently filed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents.SAJE Pharma LLC’s lead compound appears to have been discovered at Johns Hopkins University and is in preclinical stages. Aside from respiratory [...]

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I know, I know. It looks like another workplace wellness rewards programs trying to encourage behavior change by asking users to track calories and fitness activities in exchange for prizes.Not exactly. EveryMove is taking a bit of a different approach, working behind the scenes to aggregate data that users are already generating and turning it [...]

A company launching an automated transfer and mobility system that moves patients from a bed to a wheelchair — and the other way — without any lifting or rolling has raised $325,000 of a potential $1.2 million.Next Health Inc.’s Agile Life Transfer and Living System comprises a wheelchair with a back that lowers and a [...]

A few years ago, cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and trouble sharing information across different health systems were deemed the most critical barriers to widespread adoption of electronic personal health records (PHRs) by a paper in the Health Affairs journal.This week, a new low-cost, interoperable, untethered, user-controlled mobile platform launched with the hope of tackling [...]