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Link-age Ventures raising money for a new fund aimed at tech for seniors

Link-age Ventures raising money for a new fund aimed at tech for seniors

May 20, 2013 3:58 pm by | 0 Comments

Ohio-based private equity firm Link-age Ventures is raising a $20 million to $35 million technology fund this year.The team involved says the fund will invest in everything from early stage ... Read more
Hospital program improves antibiotic prescribing

Hospital program improves antibiotic prescribing

April 17, 2013 1:47 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A quality improvement program at a single children's hospital succeeded in cutting back inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, in a new study.Researchers found within six months of ... Read more
Another payer-provider reimbursement spat: UC Health v. Anthem

Another payer-provider reimbursement spat: UC Health v. Anthem

March 24, 2013 1:27 pm by | 0 Comments

Active negotiations between health insurer Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Cincinnati hospital group UC Health over reimbursement rates is the latest health provider/payer dispute made public. This time ... Read more
Allos Ventures will invest in the Midwest with new $40M fund for early-stage technologies

Allos Ventures will invest in the Midwest with new $40M fund for early-stage technologies

February 22, 2013 12:17 pm by | 0 Comments

Midwest VC firm Allos Ventures has $40 million in tow and is looking to use it to back a handful of emerging technology companies in the region.Allos’ recently closed second ... Read more
Prenatal care project and 21st century house call idea competing in $5M Mayors Challenge

Prenatal care project and 21st century house call idea competing in $5M Mayors Challenge

February 20, 2013 11:57 pm by | 1 Comments

Healthcare projects in Cincinnati, OH and Springfield, OR made the list of 20 finalists in the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge.Springfield wants to make primary care available to everyone through an ... Read more
Student’s sleep solution would create big box kiosk for DIY diagnostics

Student’s sleep solution would create big box kiosk for DIY diagnostics

February 15, 2013 8:24 pm by | 0 Comments

Students from universities around Cincinnati pitched ideas for everything from lip balm to liver enzymes at Friday’s Innov8 for Health Idea Expo in Cincinnati. Eight teams presented and four won ... Read more
Could an “educational slot machine” improve diabetes care in hospitals?

Could an “educational slot machine” improve diabetes care in hospitals?

February 15, 2013 8:06 pm by | 3 Comments

An endocrinologist has a fresh twist on gamification in health education: give nurses the chance to win time off by answering questions about in-patient diabetes care.Dr. Bradley Eilerman said that ... Read more
Oral vaccine to prevent breast cancer recurrence delivers promising results in early study

Oral vaccine to prevent breast cancer recurrence delivers promising results in early study

January 22, 2013 6:06 pm by | 0 Comments

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati think they may have identified a pill that could prevent recurrence of breast cancer.In an animal study published in the Jan. 8 issue of ... Read more
Health system streamlines diabetes care to reduce readmission rate

Health system streamlines diabetes care to reduce readmission rate

December 10, 2012 10:48 am by | 2 Comments

Starting in January, TriHealth doctors, nurses, diabetes educators and pharmacists will be working on a coordinated plan to reduce readmissions among people with diabetes. ... Read more
How to engineer a social media attack on a hospital system

How to engineer a social media attack on a hospital system

November 27, 2012 4:49 pm by | 1 Comments

An employment policy about the flu vaccine prompted a Twitter campaign against a Cincinnati healthcare system. TriHealth should use its own social media presence to respond. ... Read more
Israel-Cincinnati Children’s collaboration developing kid-sized medical devices

Israel-Cincinnati Children’s collaboration developing kid-sized medical devices

November 19, 2012 3:46 pm by | 0 Comments

Cincinnati Children’s went all the way to Israel to make surgery easier and safer for children.Engineers at Ben-Gurion University met with doctors from the children’s hospital to come up with ... Read more
Meridian’s strep A test gets FDA marketing approval

Meridian’s strep A test gets FDA marketing approval

September 17, 2012 4:35 pm by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Meridian Bioscience Inc said its test to detect a common bacterial throat infection received marketing approval in the United States.Meridian said its molecular test can detect Group A ... Read more
HIT startup takes pain and paper out of managing access to hospital health info systems

HIT startup takes pain and paper out of managing access to hospital health info systems

September 4, 2012 8:07 am by | 0 Comments

At demo days, work-flow improvements often can’t compete with warmer, fuzzier, cooler topics like children’s health or apps for helping caregivers. However, it was the process improvement team that had ... Read more
Vascular disease biopharma Aerpio nabs $27M for trials of diabetic macular edema drug

Vascular disease biopharma Aerpio nabs $27M for trials of diabetic macular edema drug

August 30, 2012 2:33 pm by | 0 Comments

A biopharmaceutical company that spun out of Cincinnati-based Akebia Therapeutics just eight months ago has raised $27 million to support development and clinical trials of its drug for diabetic macular ... Read more
Molina Healthcare to participate in Ohio’s integrated care system for dual eligibles

Molina Healthcare to participate in Ohio’s integrated care system for dual eligibles

August 27, 2012 4:19 pm by | 0 Comments

Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH) today announced that its health plan subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of Ohio, Inc., has been chosen to participate in the Southwest (Cincinnati), West Central (Dayton), and Central ... Read more