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Transitioning from Google Reader? While you’re at it, add these investor blogs to your feed

June 19, 2013 4:49 pm by | 0 Comments

The time has come for those of us loyal Google Reader users to buckle down and start migrating our RSS feeds to a different platform. (If you’re like me, you’ve been putting this off for the past three months.)But in the spirit of onward and upward, here are a few ... Read more
Want to start up your startup? Foundersuite’s tools pull it all together

Want to start up your startup? Foundersuite’s tools pull it all together

June 19, 2013 1:39 pm by | 0 Comments

Recently soft-launchedFoundersuiteoffers entrepreneurs a set of tools and templates to lessen the burden of starting a company. The site is debuting with four modules and four template bundles. ’It’s designed ... Read more
Watch out ‘dinosaurs’ of healthIT: CareCloud is coming for you and they’re armed with $20M

Watch out ‘dinosaurs’ of healthIT: CareCloud is coming for you and they’re armed with $20M

June 19, 2013 1:02 pm by | 0 Comments

CareCloud has raised $20 million to break the healthcare system out of the Jurassic era. CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software. It provides tools for practice management, EHR, ... Read more
University looking to seed interdisciplinary projects including healthcare

University looking to seed interdisciplinary projects including healthcare

June 19, 2013 11:42 am by | 0 Comments

ExCITe Center: Cerebral Palsy Physical Therapy with Kinect from Girish Balakrishnan on Vimeo.Do you have an idea for a project that crosses disciplines and involves collaboration between different groups? If ... Read more
Want to measure that data? Create your own plugin for New Relic’s dashboard

Want to measure that data? Create your own plugin for New Relic’s dashboard

June 19, 2013 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

Hey there, developer friends. Suppose you’re using New Relic to monitor your app’s performance, and you like it a lot, but you also want to monitor other stuff ’ database ... Read more
Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest

Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest

June 18, 2013 8:32 pm by | 0 Comments

A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing ... Read more
40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work

40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work

June 18, 2013 5:27 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Health IT firm providing disease-management software to long-term care facilities raises $21M

Health IT firm providing disease-management software to long-term care facilities raises $21M

June 18, 2013 4:54 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Power to the patients: Doc appointment and review website Vitals raises $22M

Power to the patients: Doc appointment and review website Vitals raises $22M

June 18, 2013 3:54 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
GE’s big data software targets healthcare, other industries

GE’s big data software targets healthcare, other industries

June 18, 2013 3:42 pm by | 0 Comments

Offering a ’big data’ solution is apparently irresistible to every company on the planet. Mega-corporation General Electric has just announced a new big data and analytics platform it calls ’Predictivity’ ... Read more
Engineers design a device to stabilize tremor in daily tasks for people with Parkinson’s

Engineers design a device to stabilize tremor in daily tasks for people with Parkinson’s

June 18, 2013 10:01 am by | 0 Comments

Lift Technology from Lift Labs on Vimeo.Everyone knows the frustration of trying to thread a needle, or to hold a cellphone steady while shooting a video. Now imagine experiencing that ... Read more
Startup Lift’s online platform helps you make and meet your life goals

Startup Lift’s online platform helps you make and meet your life goals

June 18, 2013 10:00 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Startup SpaceCurve gets $10M boost in quest to make big data immediately useful

Startup SpaceCurve gets $10M boost in quest to make big data immediately useful

June 18, 2013 3:01 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Medivo expansion hopes to reduce gaps in care and improve access to lab results

Medivo expansion hopes to reduce gaps in care and improve access to lab results

June 17, 2013 4:14 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Success with an angel syndicate: How one pharma startup raised $16M without VCs

Success with an angel syndicate: How one pharma startup raised $16M without VCs

June 17, 2013 4:11 pm by | 0 Comments

This is the first of a two-part series on the evolution of angel investing. To read part two, click here.Savara Pharmaceuticals needed several million dollars to take its inhalable drug ... Read more
Money Map: Find a venture capital firm to fund your healthcare startup

Money Map: Find a venture capital firm to fund your healthcare startup

June 17, 2013 4:11 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more