A health coaching startup founded by Cleveland Clinic wellness chief Dr. Michael Roizen and TV star Dr. Mehmet Oz has raised $1.6 million, according to a regulatory document.MedCity News reported in March that Enforcer eCoaching was aiming to raise $3 million in investment funding. A subsequent regulatory filing revealed that the company has raised $1.6 [...]

Following on the heels of two hospitals, the University of Notre Dame has become the first university to strike a collaboration with Cleveland Clinic aimed at commercializing medical innovations from its faculty and researchers.Through the collaboration, Cleveland Clinic Innovations will essentially do for Notre Dame what it does for the Clinic — help turn employee [...]

A company launching an automated transfer and mobility system that moves patients from a bed to a wheelchair — and the other way — without any lifting or rolling has raised $325,000 of a potential $1.2 million.Next Health Inc.’s Agile Life Transfer and Living System comprises a wheelchair with a back that lowers and a [...]

From loud conversations to carts moving through the halls to pages and nurse calls, the peace and quiet patients need to promote healing is often in short supply in hospitals.Aside from the obvious benefits to patient care that a quiet environment provides, hospitals have another reason to begin caring about quiet: their finances.Beginning in October, [...]

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 [...]

A clinical-stage pharmaceutical company with a vaccine it says uses a single antigen to protect against both fungal and bacterial infections is looking for a series B round to fund phase 2 trials for hospital-associated infection and women’s health applications next year.NovaDigm Therapeutics’ lead product, the NDV-3 vaccine, targets the fungal infection candida and the [...]

LED lighting isn’t just for illuminating rooms and roads. Someday it could be used to sterilize surgical tools or purify water.At the right wavelength, ultraviolet light kills microorganisms on surfaces and in water. But the effort to develop new UV disinfection devices that utilize LEDs has been hampered by the semiconductors used to make LEDs. [...]

What’s your trusted source for health information on the Internet?Cleveland Clinic hopes the answer more and more people come up with to that question is “Health Hub.”The renowned hospital launched the Health Hub site at the end of March “with little fanfare,” but still drew 16,000 visits in April without promotion. The Clinic hopes the [...]

I’ve written many times about the Bring Your Own Device movement (BYOD) and the need for increasing security controls. For years, we’ve controlled device settings on Blackberry devices with the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). We force passwords, encryption, and device memory wipes for ten failed passwords so that every user has enterprise enforced securityWith [...]

A digital map to help patients and visitors navigate its sprawling hospital campus and a Web-based scheduler to help patients organize their appointments with healthcare professionals in Penn Medicine‘s health system will be implemented as part of an innovation challenge to improve the patient experience at its hospitals.Participants worked with professors at University of Pennsylvania’s [...]