When Blueprint Health was launched as a healthcare accelerator last year, it joined RockHealth and Health Box as seed stage vehicles to fund and grow primarily health IT startups. More recently other incubators and accelerators and hybrids have moved into the space including StartUp Health and New York Digital Health Accelerator.As New York-based Blueprint Health [...]

An electronic medical record company helped Dr. Mehmet Oz evaluate the health of Philadelphians by compiling averages for patient data on cholesterol, blood glucose level, blood pressure in real time.The event was held in Philadelphia at Temple University School of Medicine with the goal of helping people better manage their healthcare. If successful, it is [...]

I know, I know. It looks like another workplace wellness rewards programs trying to encourage behavior change by asking users to track calories and fitness activities in exchange for prizes.Not exactly. EveryMove is taking a bit of a different approach, working behind the scenes to aggregate data that users are already generating and turning it [...]

The role of depression in prolonging patients’ recoveries, the evolution of the mobile health market and the increased willingness of insurance companies to work with startups were among the most interesting trends to emerge from the Health 2.0 Spring Fling conference in Boston this week.There was a lot of buzz aroundCogito Corp. Its voice-recognition technology [...]

A new partnership with a company that bills itself as having the most broad-reaching healthcare communication network in the country could increase health IT startup CoverMyMeds‘ health insurance customer base.Cleveland-area CoverMyMeds (CMM) has developed Web-based tools that speed up and automate the submission of prior authorization requests to health insurance plans. Insurers sometimes require these [...]

A few years ago, cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and trouble sharing information across different health systems were deemed the most critical barriers to widespread adoption of electronic personal health records (PHRs) by a paper in the Health Affairs journal.This week, a new low-cost, interoperable, untethered, user-controlled mobile platform launched with the hope of tackling [...]

Ten years ago, if anyone said that a multifunctional device would one day allow people to play a word game with anyone in the world as well as enable a doctor to get ECG data — many would simply say baloney.Of course, the iPhone and iPad are no longer a figment of anyone’s imagination.With the [...]

A healthcare IT startup has developed a mobile collaboration solution to improve communication between the team of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals associated with a patient’s care to reduce medical errors.Scott Guelich, a software developer who also has a medical degree, co-founded Care Thread 12 months ago to address problems where they happen most — [...]

If you are managing a merger, take a guess at how much time it will take to create a new culture. Then double it.Healthcare chief information officer Tom Wittman, a veteran of the Army as well as several hospital mergers, says it’s very easy to underestimate the impact of bringing two groups of people together.“With [...]

At the Health 2.0 conference in Boston this week, a segment in which a group of three serial entrepreneurs shared their insights on startups in the healthcare landscape elicited some interesting comments, particularly on the role patients play in improving healthcare.