For all the talk that doctors are putting down their iPads, one company is keen to show that the tablets can play an important role for its voice enabling software in healthcare settings.Dr. Brian Phelps, the CEO of Montrue Technologies and a former ER physician, said he had a very clear idea of what the [...]

A readmission risk assessment tool and two diabetes education programs will now be put to the ultimate reality check: patients.The winner of the Janssen Connected Care Challenge and and finalists in Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge will use their winnings to test their solutions for reducing healthcare costs in hospitals and communities.RightCare Solutions‘ tool [...]

A company that got U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its drug-delivery pump for chronic pain, including back pain, earlier this year has raised $25 million to help market the pump in the U.S, according to a company statement.The company has said it is the first evolution in the pump technology since a device [...]

Pennsylvania’s move this week to expand its telemedicine program to include more specialties reflects a broader trend of states using this tactic to improve healthcare access in underserved communities.Some specialized markets have emerged. For entrepreneurs and investors eyeing the telemedicine space, here are six niche spaces to watch.Radiology. Teleradiology is the largest and most [...]

A privately held East Coast healthcare payment solutions provider described by the CEO as the “PayPal of Healthcare” has raised $14 million and is using the capital to increase its headroom to boost the amount of transactions it processes.InstaMed, based in Philadelphia, uses a private cloud network to work with healthcare providers, insurers and patients [...]

The greatest advocates for telemedicine routinely hail it as a way to improve patient access. To that end, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has expanded telemedicine services for its 2 million residents on Medicaid as part of its medical assistance program, according to a statement from the governor’s office.Instead of restricting the program to consultations with [...]

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand its type 1 diabetes drug Levemir to children as young as 2 years old.The man-made insulin is the only basal insulin analog approved for children 2 to 5 years old, the company said in a statement. Basal dosage is the [...]

A pharmaceutical company has produced positive phase 2 results for its drug to treat advanced breast cancer with an oral version of a chemotherapy treatment. The findings come at a critical time for the drugmaker and could lead to additional investment as it seeks to advance the drug’s development.Genta’s (OTCBB:GNTA) lead drug is tesetaxel, a [...]

A life sciences funding group is offering to help university researchers prove that their digital health ideas are strong enough to turn into real businesses. The QED Proof-of-Concept Program is seeking applications in this space for the first time, according to a statement from the University City Science Center.Run by the University City Science Center, [...]

Specialty pharmaceutical company Auxilium Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AUXL) has inked a deal with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) to co-promote its testosterone replacement therapy gel Testim in a bid to grab a bigger slice of the primary care physician market, which accounts for 70 percent of TRT gel prescriptions, according to a conference call detailing the deal.The deal, scheduled to [...]