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

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 ... 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
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
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
Smart as a (Blue) Button: Program brings medical records to your smartphone

Smart as a (Blue) Button: Program brings medical records to your smartphone

June 17, 2013 11:05 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
From fluid repellant scrubs to telemedicine for diabetics, angel investor group shares strategy

From fluid repellant scrubs to telemedicine for diabetics, angel investor group shares strategy

June 17, 2013 10:00 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more
Imagine an Internet scrubbed of child pornography (Google is working on it)

Imagine an Internet scrubbed of child pornography (Google is working on it)

June 16, 2013 5:33 pm by | 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 ... Read more
Google Project Loon will use balloons to spread Internet connectivity

Google Project Loon will use balloons to spread Internet connectivity

June 15, 2013 12:30 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more