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Ex-tech blogger’s new venture hooks up startups on both sides of the Atlantic

Ex-tech blogger’s new venture hooks up startups on both sides of the Atlantic

May 1, 2013 9:01 am by | 0 Comments

Looking to expand your tech startup overseas, but not sure where to start? Entrepreneur and former journalist Courtney Boyd Myers has launched an agency, dubbed Audience.io, to help young businesses ... Read more
Stifled by regulation, entrepreneurs take life-saving devices overseas

Stifled by regulation, entrepreneurs take life-saving devices overseas

April 30, 2013 10:00 am by | 0 Comments

’Uncertainty’ is not a word that Silicon Valley’s investors ’ or their limited partners ’ like to hear. Medical device entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs have complained vociferously for years that funding ... Read more
Intel and Knight Cancer Institute want to make genetic analysis part of all patient care

Intel and Knight Cancer Institute want to make genetic analysis part of all patient care

April 26, 2013 6:49 pm by | 0 Comments

Intel and the Oregon Health & Science University are teaming up on a supercomputing project to speed up analysis of human genetic profiles, which could help with personalized treatment for ... Read more
Box CEO: We want to manage all the content in healthcare

Box CEO: We want to manage all the content in healthcare

April 24, 2013 11:53 pm by | 0 Comments

Cloud storage startup Boxis pushing into the health care vertical, regulatory challenges and all. Box’s team has spent a year researching the space and ensuring that the product is HIPAA ... Read more
Tech entrepreneur is converting retired city buses into showers for the San Francisco homeless

Tech entrepreneur is converting retired city buses into showers for the San Francisco homeless

April 21, 2013 1:21 pm by | 6 Comments

San Francisco is teeming with tech entrepreneurs who want to save the world but who’ll pass by the homeless person on the street without a second glance. Doniece Sandoval, a ... Read more
Ex-Google health chief launches an online community for cancer patients

Ex-Google health chief launches an online community for cancer patients

April 18, 2013 1:29 am by | 0 Comments

Google’s former lead health strategist has launched a new website SmartPatients that helps cancer patients connect with each other, and learn more about their disease. Physician turned entrepreneur Roni Zeiger ... Read more
Funding for health IT is continuing at a ‘torrid pace,’ report finds

Funding for health IT is continuing at a ‘torrid pace,’ report finds

April 16, 2013 5:59 pm by | 0 Comments

Funding for digital health startups skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013, according to a new report. Companies in the health care IT space raised almost half a billion dollars ... Read more
Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

April 13, 2013 9:30 am by | 0 Comments

VentureBeat has hatched a crazy plan to banish buzzwords and marketing speak, at least for an afternoon. At our San Francisco office, VentureBeat invited four CEO’s from various cloud and ... Read more
New ONC fee proposal would raise fees for electronic health record vendors

New ONC fee proposal would raise fees for electronic health record vendors

April 11, 2013 4:23 pm by | 0 Comments

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health ITjustreleased its budget plan for 2014, which would increase its $61 million budget to $78 million, a 28 percent jump. But it’s ... Read more
Practice Fusion launches its ‘Yelp for doctors’ reviews & scheduling app

Practice Fusion launches its ‘Yelp for doctors’ reviews & scheduling app

April 9, 2013 9:08 am by | 0 Comments

Already, Practice Fusion claims it has 3 million open appointments for the month of April alone, more than any of its competition. Roughly half of its user base of doctors ... Read more

WellDoc commercialization chief is not singing an acquisition tune

WellDoc commercialization chief is not singing an acquisition tune

April 5, 2013 3:09 pm by | 0 Comments

UPDATE: After we published this Venture Beat story on Friday, Chris Bergstrom, WellDoc's chief commercialization officer, tweeted this other acquisition rumor. No news yet this week on what is happening ... Read more
Bringing Mayo Clinic IT to a small medical practice? One Medical gets $30M to try

Bringing Mayo Clinic IT to a small medical practice? One Medical gets $30M to try

March 24, 2013 12:49 pm by | 0 Comments

Startup founders often make bold claims about disrupting entire industries. Dr. Tom X Lee is one such entrepreneur, but in this particular case, his company is alreadyshaping the future of ... Read more
How to raise startup funding from friends and family

How to raise startup funding from friends and family

March 9, 2013 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

Many tech entrepreneurs take investment from friends and family to test the viability of an idea. They raise just enough to fund a developer’s salary, office space, monthly rent,anda steady ... Read more
Entrepreneur hopes personalized care for the rich will shame system into reforming

Entrepreneur hopes personalized care for the rich will shame system into reforming

March 2, 2013 7:10 am by | 5 Comments

Futurist and entrepreneur Michael Vassar has a bone to pick with the U.S. medical system. He hopes to ’humiliate’ it into providing better quality care by creating a ’product that ... Read more
Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

February 26, 2013 11:12 pm by | 0 Comments

Practice Fusion, a company that provides free web-based health records to doctors, is now expanding to serve the general public too. The companyhas just acquired 100Plus, a mobile ... Read more