Last week several publications reported that Erik Halvorsen, director of the Innovation Institute at the Texas Medical Center, has stepped down. Turns out he and another employee were fired.
The University City Science Center's DHA program created a blind initial application process that focuses on the founders’ ability to communicate their idea with the goal of removing biases associated with how screeners perceive the founding team.
FASENRA® (benralizumab) injection, for subcutaneous use, 30 mg is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). FASENRA provides a treatment option for HCPs to consider when managing this challenging disease.
Thirteen companies are taking part in the three-month program from a telehealth company that enlists nurses to one that developed a digital triage tool for paramedics and EMTs.
Digital health innovation is becoming increasingly dependent on the infrastructure established by health systems but that can pose its own set of problems. How can we improve communication to benefit digital health ecosystems?
The SXSW health track attendees covered the ecosystem of patient care, provider support, policymakers, entrepreneurs and investors seeking to improve healthcare.
Starting a business is not for the faint of the heart. We can't give entrepreneurs that innate fire, but here are some tools that can they can put away in their arsenal to avoid pitfalls.
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
In the third quarter of 2016, 47 of the 87 deals at $2 million or less involved either an accelerator or incubator compared with 22 accelerator and incubator deals for the same period last year.
Groups like DreamIt Ventures, MassChallenge, Techstars and Y Combinator were included too, but each has programs for technology companies in addition to health tech startups.
The Iron Yard digital health accelerator is downgrading to a shared workspace in its Spartanburg, South Carolina homebase after three years, according to the Spartanburg Herald Journal. It will continue to offer courses in programming and coding.
The organization will now look to invest in seed stage healthcare companies - 20 to start with.
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The old accelerator model focused on serving the startup and earned equity in that company. New models are shifting to serve the health system seeking innovative solutions to their problems, almost like an outsourced innovation group
The New York and Seattle-based Accelerator Corp. just expanded its fourth fund to $62.8 million to fund life sciences startups. The money comes from AbbVie, WuXi PharmaTech and Watson Fund.
The Fogarty Institute, a Silicon Valley medtech accelerator, just wrapped up an unconventional partnership with the FDA in which the two swapped ideas about medtech policy and innovation. The takeaway? The FDA's all about helping startups avoid the red tape.
More and more women are stepping up as entrepreneurs, thankfully, and organizations like these support that.
The refurbished and rebranded Healthbox accelerator as Healthbox Studio unveiled its new class of startups this week and artificial intelligence is a dominant theme. It also includes a startup with a public health goal of helping asthma patients and others by improving air quality in homes. Interestingly, some of the entrepreneurs in the latest class […]