Lift Technology from Lift Labs on Vimeo.Everyone knows the frustration of trying to threat a needle, or to hold a cellphone steady while shooting a video. Now imagine experiencing that frustration doing everyday tasks like eating and writing.The team of engineers behind Lift Labs has set out to make smart ... Read more
Christine Porter is hooked on the My Fitness Pal app. In October, after deciding to lose 50 pounds, Porter started typing in everything she eats, drinks and any exercise she ...
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A health IT company that makes care management software for skilled nursing facilities will expand its sales and advance new projects thanks to a new $21 million investment.Cleveland-based Clinical Outcomes ...
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Whether you call it the influence of the hospitality industry or the consumerization of health care (or both!), health IT companies with tools providing more price transparency for healthcare decisions ...
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We all know the importance of eating well, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep, but good habits can be hard to maintain. Today buzzed-about startup Lift opened up its platform ...
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SpaceCurve, a startup that lives to suss out massive amounts of location, social, sensor, and timeline data, has just raised $10 million. This round, led by Triage Ventures, is the ...
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The companies that are set to gain the most with healthcare reform are the ones that are making cost cutting doable and improving outcomes. One such health IT company is ...
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Hard to understand, slow to exit and more than enough risk to go around.Not many investors are brave and smart enough to fund startups working to get new pharmaceuticals, medical ...
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Aetna sees cost savings in helping people track their health and fitness. A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health-tracking ...
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It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises -- a visiting family member gets sick. That happened to Dr. Farzad Mostashari last Thanksgiving. "My dad comes downstairs and he has acute pain ...
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One of the toughest challenges for health care startups is to get an audience with health systems. They are short on time, and they tend to be pretty cautious about ...
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June 16, 2013 5:33 pm by Sean Ludwig, | 1 Comments
Search and mobile superpower Google is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from most of the web. Google disclosed new efforts ...
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Yesterday the search giant published a blog post detailing Project Loon. The project emerged out of Google[x], Google’s secret lab that works on ’moonshot ideas,’, or projects that are a ...
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June 15, 2013 12:13 pm by Shahid Shah | 0 Comments
I recently posted about my upcoming Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts from my readers. This morning I woke up to receive ...
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Apple is showing off its marketing chops, and tugging at our heartstrings, in a new video posted to its YouTube channel.Called “Making a difference. One app at a time,” the ...
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Penn Medicine recently hosted a local HIMSS chapter for a seminar on provider engagement. Dr. John McGreevey III, an associate CMIO at Penn Medicine, highlighted several ways to engage providers ...
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