Deanna Pogorelc is a Cleveland-based reporter who writes obsessively about life science startups across the country, looking to technology transfer offices, startup incubators and investment funds to see what’s next in healthcare. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University and previously covered business and education for a northeast Indiana newspaper.
Is a strategy that’s been in practice for at least two decades really innovative? Telemedicine has been a bit of a tortoise among health information technologies, making its way slowly into practice since the 1990s. But some think the industry is past the tipping point. As an encouraging sign, participants on Converge’s telemedicine panel offered […]
A health system CEO imagined what education and care will look like in his system in 10 years. Investors explained how new models of early-stage funding are paving opportunities for healthcare startups. Insurance executives shared what innovation looks like in the payer sector. And a medical device giant illustrated the challenges of disruptive thinking in […]
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In medicine, the microbiome is most often associated with the gut. But there are millions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on our skin and in our glands, too, and scientists suspect that learning more about them could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions. A Cambridge biotech startup called AOBiome is […]
With a little genetic engineering, the vaccine that was key in helping eradicate smallpox more than 30 years ago could also be key in curing cancer, if a young Cleveland biotech has anything to say about it. Western Oncolytics is developing a dual-mechanism therapy that combines oncolytic virus and gene therapy technologies with the hope […]
Tech startup accelerator Bizdom is putting an emphasis on health and wellness for its next session and is on the lookout for a few exciting digital health companies in (or willing to relocate to) Cleveland. Bizdom invests up to $125,000 in each startup chosen for the program and provides mentoring in sales, marketing and technology. […]
There’s a reason the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act is thousands of pages long. Much of it, of course, is because of the sweeping changes it makes to the already complex U.S. healthcare system. But tucked inside are dozens of other small, strange or surprising ACA provisions that got slipped in for any number […]
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia spinout with the potential to be the first to win U.S. FDA approval of a gene therapy is now funded through the rest of development of its lead treatment for inherited blindness. Spark Therapeutics is in the middle of a Phase 3 clinical trial that will determine whether the gene therapy […]
Healthcare data analytics company Aver Informatics thinks the next generation of healthcare reimbursement lies in bundled payments, and now Drive Capital and GE Ventures have backed up that hypothesis too. The investors led an $8.5 million Series A that will allow the startup to expand its engineering and sales teams and accelerate growth, execs said. […]
Biotech company Sanaria has spent the last decade working on a malaria vaccine that in early tests has shown tremendous potential to protect people from the deadly infection transmitted by mosquitoes. Now, to scale up, it’s turning to the crowd to fund a robot that would speed up part of the production process by 20 […]
A San Diego biotech startup focused on treating metabolic and endocrine disorders has picked up a portfolio of drug candidates and a $2.5 million investment from Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:LGND). Viking Therapeutics said it’s licensed five programs from Ligand, including a Phase 2 program aimed at type 2 diabetes and another at wasting syndrome in cancer. […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Filament Labs, one of a handful of digital health startups leveraging smartphones to connect patients and their doctors during the last mile of care, will be able to build onto its flagship product thanks to a $1 million seed round. The Austin, Texas-based company markets a digital care plan delivery platform called Patient IO. Physicians […]
Thanks in part to digital technology, patients are taking control of their healthcare in a way they never have before, said WebMD CEO David Schlanger. Yet, almost half of Americans have at least one chronic disease, and that number is expected to continue growing. At the Cleveland Clinic’s Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit today, […]
Telemedicine company HealthSpot and Cleveland Clinic are launching a joint venture intending to use telehealth technologies to reach more patients. “Together we will be researching the vast amount of new point-of-care technology and developing new ways to integrate that into our solution,” said HealthSpot CEO Steve Cashman in a statement. The telemedicine kiosk is a […]
A system that uses an iPad camera and cloud analytics to help anesthesiologists monitor how much blood a patient is losing during surgery has gotten the FDA’s OK for use in the operating room. Mobile health startup Gauss Surgical said today it plans to begin rolling out its Triton Fluid Management System to hospitals next […]
He’s only 15, but Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner Nathan Han may be on his way to making some important advances in cancer research. His winning invention is a machine-learning software tool he’s been using to examine in detail the characteristics of several mutations of the BRCA1 gene, which produces tumor suppressor proteins. […]