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Healthcare networking firm Within3 gets backing from Easton Capital
Cleveland health technology company Within3 has secured a new round of financing from a New […]
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BioEnterprise, partners launch Cleveland health IT accelerator
Health IT in Northeast Ohio could get a boost as life science initiative BioEnterprise introduces a new accelerator for emerging health technology companies. The Health IT Accelerator, announced today by BioEnterprise in partnership with a number of Cleveland healthcare, research, medical payer organizations, will offer mentorship, access to key customers, and business development and fundraising support for area healthcare IT companies with market-ready or in-market products and services.
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Landing angel investment: 5 tips from those who’ve done it
Landing angel investment involves a little bit more than calling up a bunch of rich […]
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Forum Health reportedly gets interest from four bidders, should it decide to sell — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 11, 2009
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland called financially troubled Forum Health in Youngstown “a critically urgent situation,” while three federal legislators appealed to President Obama for financial assistance for the bankrupt health-care agency.
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Cleveland’s Within3 evolves (out of social networking?)
The company unveiled its redesigned site last week, which highlights Within3’s transformation from creating a LinkedIn for doctors to a Ning for health-care interests. Instead of building a physicians-only social network for all doctors to commiserate around any subject, it creates customized members-only social networks on specific subjects such as clinical trials, hospital alumni or medical specialties. It plans to double its 25 member staff by the end of 2010, and recent deals end “the speculation about will social media take off in health care,” said Lance Hill, president and chief executive officer at Within3.
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Why physicians may never have their own Facebook
Scattered from Cleveland and Seattle to Virginia and Massachusetts are companies still trying to prove out a winning model to gather physicians in a Facebook — or is it a LinkedIn, or is it a Ning? — type of environment reserved solely for the medical community. The perceived reward is worth the pursuit, though. The leaders of these medical social networks say that their sites, if done right, are the new place pharmaceutical companies can come (and spend their marketing dollars) to connect with doctors now that ethics policies and gift bans are keeping drug representatives away.