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Iron Yard sets up first digital health accelerator in Southeast US

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Iron Yard sets up first digital health accelerator in Southeast US

May 7, 2013 12:00 pm by | 0 Comments

Digital health entrepreneurs in the Southeast now have a new source of help for launching a company: The Iron Yard in Spartanburg, SC. The organization has already had one class of tech startups and now is expanding to digital health.It’s looking for 10 companies of two or more staff that ... Read more

EHR adoption reaches “tipping point” but challenges remain

EHR adoption reaches “tipping point” but challenges remain

May 22, 2013 4:59 pm by | 0 Comments

The Department of Health and Human Services marked a milestone this week, announcing more than 50 percent of eligible providers have adopted or used electronic health records — a goal ... Read more

New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

May 13, 2013 6:39 pm by | 0 Comments

What should a patient portal for a statewide health information network look like? That’s a question New York eHealth Collaborative has been considering for awhile. If the interface characteristics of ... Read more

Philly gets second health IT accelerator with Canadian program

Philly gets second health IT accelerator with Canadian program

May 13, 2013 1:45 pm by | 0 Comments

Six months after declaring its intention to open a health IT accelerator in Philadelphia, the Canadian Consulate General has set one up at the University City Science Center.The inaugural class ... Read more

Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants

Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants

May 10, 2013 2:35 pm by | 0 Comments

As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act are rolled out, providers and payers are looking for ways to address pain points varying from improving patient engagement ... Read more

Qualcomm Life’s HealthyCircles deal could boost its appeal to ACOs

Qualcomm Life’s HealthyCircles deal could boost its appeal to ACOs

May 6, 2013 12:26 pm by | 0 Comments

Qualcomm Life’s acquisition of HealthyCircles was big news at American Telemedicine Association‘s annual conference in Austin this morning–not an event typically associated with headline-grabbing M&A announcements. The deal gives Qualcomm ... Read more

When an entrepreneur seizes the mic: Bold move or act of desperation?

When an entrepreneur seizes the mic: Bold move or act of desperation?

May 5, 2013 5:31 pm by | 1 Comments

Healthcare startups in fundraising mode occasionally break the rules to get an investor’s ear. Sometimes it works, but it can generate a collective cringe from onlookers.That was the impression left ... Read more

Health IT CEO: Physicians shouldn’t wait to be reimbursed before offering telehealth

Health IT CEO: Physicians shouldn’t wait to be reimbursed before offering telehealth

May 3, 2013 12:21 pm by | 0 Comments

Telehealthis seen as an expedient way to improve access to healthcare through telephone calls to email and video interactions to support health education for patients and professionals, long distance clinical ... Read more

Can making data beautiful engage patients and boost health literacy?(video)

Can making data beautiful engage patients and boost health literacy?(video)

May 1, 2013 7:03 am by | 0 Comments

Providing consumers access to their data without overwhelming their health literacy threshold is probably the biggest challenge for companies developing patient portals to provide access to electronic health records. Too ... Read more

Finalists in Sanofi diabetes challenge identify best ways to use data to improve outcomes

Finalists in Sanofi diabetes challenge identify best ways to use data to improve outcomes

April 23, 2013 2:40 pm by | 1 Comments

Sanofi US’s third installment of its diabetes crowdsourcing competition to find innovative approaches to improving the quality, delivery and cost of care for diabetes has selected five finalists.The Data Design ... Read more

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Reducing ER overuse (video)

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Reducing ER overuse (video)

April 20, 2013 9:02 am by | 0 Comments

CareLink.me uses a geo-location communication platform that connects people who overuse emergency services with their primary care providers. ... Read more

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Taskrabbit for seniors (video)

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Taskrabbit for seniors (video)

April 20, 2013 8:50 am by | 4 Comments

Senior Serve, founded by Evin Ollinger, offered a hacked version of Taskrabbit, a social media website that's a combination of Craigslist and eBay. Users bid on jobs. ... Read more

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Care coordination through pin numbers (video)

Code-a-thon spurs ideas to close digital divide: Care coordination through pin numbers (video)

April 20, 2013 8:45 am by | 1 Comments

Moxe Health an alumnus of the Rock Health healthcare accelerator whose co-founders worked for Epic developed a simple tool to knock down data silos and improve care coordination with the ... Read more

Startup strives to build a better symptom search engine using patients own words, open source data

Startup strives to build a better symptom search engine using patients own words, open source data

April 19, 2013 5:04 pm by | 1 Comments

A patient facing search engine app MedWhat wants to achieve something its co-founder believes is lacking from similar tools — fast, comprehensive responses to patient questions no matter how simple ... Read more

Where should you go for kidney transplant? Startup is using CMS data to identify best outcomes

Where should you go for kidney transplant? Startup is using CMS data to identify best outcomes

April 19, 2013 8:30 am by | 4 Comments

A healthcare startup has developed a tool to help users facing complex procedures determine which providers have the best outcomes to meet their needs. The idea is that by choosing ... Read more

What do seniors need? StartUp Health and AARP collaboration hopes to give startups better insights

What do seniors need? StartUp Health and AARP collaboration hopes to give startups better insights

April 17, 2013 9:06 am by | 0 Comments

So many healthcare entrepreneurs have a story to share about a sick grandparent and how their recent experiences alerted them to certain shortcomings in the healthcare system. And although these ... Read more