The Startup Genome launched a new tool this week that brings data aggregation and analytics to investors looking to invest in early stage tech companies. The Investor Compass benchmarks a startups’ key performance indicators against similar companies, calculates a company’s risk profile and compiles customer acquisition costs, profitability timelines, team size, user growth and burn [...]

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has held its ground on prostate cancer screening. They are against screening, for men of any age. And yes, the howls of outrage are echoing through the hospital and clinic halls, notably from the American Urological Association. Now I wonder why the AUA is “outraged?”Ah. I have a thought. [...]

Let’s talk about the newest cholesterol myth gone busted.I can hardly write; I’m so giddy. That’s what happens to me when simplicity and obviousness triumphs over complicated testing that adds nothing to (or even clouds) the big picture.Are you kidding me?They come to my office with pages of data dissecting the particle sizes and sub-fractions [...]

A Minnesota urinary incontinence treatment company is now expanding to treat that other voiding dysfunction.Uroplasty(NASDAQ CM:UPI) announced Thursday that it is testing its Urgent PC Neuromodulation treatment for overactive bladders to now treat fecal incontinence.The company will launch a clinical trial in late summer in the U.S. The office-based, minimally invasive treatment is already approved [...]

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 emergency room physician, said he had a very clear idea of what the [...]

Although it’s trying to keep quiet about its product, a medical device startup developing a new treatment for obesity revealed this week it’s in the middle of raising $5.5 million.According to a recently filed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission document, Vibrynt Inc. has raised half of a $5.5 million offering from five investors.Vibrynt’s website provides [...]

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 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 for [...]

We’ve seen it in retail. You can shop for your clothes, buy groceries and take your little one for a photo shoot at Super Target.We’ve seen it in tech: You can take photos and video, work on documents, send email and play music all on the same mobile device.And the beginnings of convergence is happening [...]

There’s an interesting discussion brewing in several healthcare-focused LinkedIn groups that was sparked by this question: What things must healthcare reform include to be successful?Anthony Wunsh, president and CEO of Medical Pay Solutions, asked this question to thousands of industry stakeholders in about 20 LinkedIn groups that included Healthcare Executives Network and Society of Physician [...]

Cell culture testing technology developed by KIYATEC aims to help drug developers find out in preclinical trials whether a drug candidate will work in humans.Now, the Clemson University spinout is looking to advance its work with new tests for cancer efficacy and liver toxicity. KIYATEC has closed on a series A round of financing that [...]