Research Triangle Park

presented by
Health IT

A dietitian billing platform wants to help navigate reimbursement challenges

The Affordable Care Act expanded reimbursement for preventive services such as nutrition counseling. Health IT startup, Healthy Bytes has responded by developing an administrative support platform that also includes a nutrition-focused electronic health record. The company, which is part of Blueprint Health’s accelerator, initiated beta testing for its billing platform this week. In her pitch […]

Validic offers API to entrepreneurs as influence grows

Validic has been adding a diverse group of companies interested in using its data aggregation tools to unharness data from devices and apps. But in a move that is likely to accelerate that trend, it has begun offering its API to healthcare entrepreneurs to connect their own products to Validic’s network. It is making the […]

presented by

Big data analytics startup adding healthcare channel

For healthcare reform to make the shift from the fee for service to outcomes based reimbursement that its architects envision, providers need to have a way to analyze big data that can make accurate predictions about patient populations, particularly people with chronic conditions. It’s going to take a lot of data scientists to respond to […]

presented by
BioPharma

Three new life sciences accelerators in the works, Alexandria Real Estate CEO says

Alexandria Real Estate is developing three new accelerators around the country, aiming to launch startups in the agricultural, digital health and biotech spaces, CEO Joel Marcus told MedCity News. The life sciences real estate development firm plans to open an agricultural sciences-related accelerator in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina by the end of this year and a digital health […]

Cloud Pharmaceuticals raising $20M for its “in silico” approach to drug development

We’re all plenty familiar with in-vivo and in-vitro, but Cloud Pharmaceuticals is taking the “in-silico“ approach to drug development. Its “inverse design” platform uses cloud supercomputing to cherry pick and formulate molecules that will work as new medications – cutting out much of the early lab expenses by conducting the earliest drug discovery processes virtually. The Research Triangle […]

Are you developing an implantable bioelectronic device? GSK may have $1M for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO_lNh-SCis It’s only been a few months since GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) launched a $50 million fund to invest in life science industries developing bioelectronic technology. Now, it  has kicked off an innovation challenge to crowdsource the technology. Specifically, it’s looking for an implantable device that can interpret  and “write” the body’s electrical signals. Not only […]

Health IT

Mark Cuban: Personalized health is the future of healthcare

Billlionaire investor Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and Landmark Theaters and is a regular on Shark Tank, has expanded his interests to personalized health. He is part of a group of investors in mobile health startup, Validic,which raised $760,000 in a seed round. The Durham, N.C., company has developed a platform to integrate […]