When it comes to her feelings about investing in care delivery startups, it’s a real “mixed bag” for Ulili Onovakpuri, managing partner at Kapor Capital. This is because a lot of them operate on a cash-pay model. She summarized the issue quite succinctly: there’s an incredible amount of innovation happening, but the people who could benefit the most from this type of care will be the last ones to receive it.
The 10 startups that made the cut for Health: US 2018, the venture development program headed up by Village Capital and Kaiser Permanente, seek to address the needs of America's aging population.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The Ziegler Link-age Longevity Fund, a $26.6 million fund established this past summer exclusively focused on the $100 billion aging and home care market, has invested an undisclosed sum into San Francisco startup CareLinx, an online network that connects caregivers and home care services. The CareLinx investment, the amount of which was not disclosed, is […]
With medication adherence becoming a focal point across the industry, myriad approaches have arisen to counter the $300 billion challenge, from the relatively simple like text messaging and direct mailers to multifaceted methods that involve increasingly creative uses of technology. One approach involving the latter is the application of artificial intelligence, and New York-based AiCure is […]
As HealthBeat drew to a close, ten digital health startups took to the stage in an attempt to convince healthcare techies (healthies? hechies?) that they were all the next big thing disrupting the toughest problems with in an industry fraught technological hurdles. All have great ideas and intentions, undoubtedly, but a few stood out, in […]
San Francisco startup Decisive Health grabbed top honors from the Livestrong Foundation‘s inaugural Big C competition, taking it with $25,000 for its Treatment Explorer development tool for cancer patients. According to Decisive Health, the tool optimizes cancer patients’ lifestyles with the best corresponding treatment, with customizable features for each patient that can be shared with […]
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Over the course of three days at the Mayo Clinic‘s annual Transform conference, featuring scores of healthcare’s top names, several themes stood out. Here’s what I gather were the main points. 1. Economic factors and barriers are just as important in determining health outcomes for the population as a whole. It stands to reason – […]
Digital health incubator Rock Health is investing in eight new startups and teaming up with three new corporate entities – Blue Shield of California, Deloitte and global healthcare firm Abbott. The new startups being incubated span the healthcare spectrum, from HIPAA compliance to life sciences and biotech. Among them: — Accountable, an online platform that seeks […]
Anyone remotely close to the healthcare sector knows that HIPAA compliance is nothing to be taken lightly, from the big health systems to the startups looking to tap into potentially vast knowledge gleaned from patient data. And startups in particular face a daunting task convincing the healthcare giants they hope to work with that, while […]
The future of healthcare was all over MedCity CONVERGE 2014, and not just in the form of vague predictions about robot doctors and implanted sensors that track our every biological process. A doctor, an IT expert and a process improvement expert talked about what hospitals will look like in 2024, which ones will still be […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
I’m building a startup to help investors, acquirers, and service providers etc. connect with startups to do deals. Funding, M&A, customer acquisition–these aren’t new things, but before Mattermark existed these professionals were cooking up their own solutions to this problem, their own proprietary ways of gaining deal intelligence to grow their pipelines. Startups benefit from […]
CIOs are still running to keep up with the latest technology, but these C-suite leaders shouldn’t spread themselves too thin by overlooking basic functionality in the pursuit of pure innovation. That advice comes from Jay Ferro, chief information officer for the American Cancer Society, detailing how the position of CIO has changed, at MedCity News’ […]
Download the MedCity Startup Index for June now Recently I wrote about my first experience with a patient portal. It was disappointing. Dr. Joseph Kvedar explained what Apple will have to do with HealthKit to avoid the dead ends that Microsoft and Google ran into when they tried to create a health data experience. He […]
Benevolent Technologies for Health (BeTH), a two-year old Boston materials startup, is focusing on medical device design to bring patients with lower limb loss customizable interface for their prosthetics. The company’s material is “jammable,” which basically means it can take on any shape. In the world of prosthetics, that means sockets, liners or inserts to adjust to the […]
Spine tech startup Benvenue Medical has secured a $40 million Series E, plus $24 million in debt financing, to further commercialization efforts in the States, upscale manufacturing and support growth. The Santa Clara, California-based company launched its Kiva VCF in March. Back then, CEO Robert Weigle said the company was “blessed to be fully funded […]