Members of the Partners in Innovation, Education, and Research consortium include Atlantic Health System, Drexel University, Einstein Healthcare Network, Geisinger including AtlantiCare, Main Line Health, and Thomas Jefferson University.
Eight companies are taking part in the fifth cohort of the Philadelphia-based accelerator with technologies spanning remote monitoring to detect diabetic foot ulcers earlier to a paper-based diagnostics system for point-of-care tests.
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
Specialty pain meds maker Scilex Pharmaceuticals plans to wrap up clinical trials for its lead product, Ztildo – and has just raised $5 million from private investors to do so, according to regulatory filings. Ztildo is a lidocaine patch developed specifically for a form of neuralgia that often follows shingles infections. It has licensed the technology from a […]
NextDocs has raised $13.5 million in a financing round led by OpenView Venture Partners, which invests in expansion stage companies. It wants to benefit from the trend of life science companies replacing the legacy document management software they use to support clinical trials with regulated content management and compliance solutions in an effort to make […]
It’s been a stormy week for Echo Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ECTE), a medical device company with a wireless, painfree continuous glucose monitoring system in the late stages of development. CEO Dr. Patrick Mooney took an immediate leave of absence Monday. Today Platinum-Montaur Life Sciences, the company’s largest shareholder with a 20 percent stake in the business, […]