Deb Muro, CIO of El Camino Health, explained some of the ways her health system is using technology to make nurses’ jobs easier — including software that flags patients who are at risk of adverse outcomes and a tool that helps frontline nurse managers better engage with their staff.
Two executives have launched a new Silicon Valley firm, MDisrupt, designed to assess the medical claims made by health tech startups to help investors to separate the wheat from chaff and guide startups seeking to commercialize products.
In this episode hear how improving benefit verification, prior authorizations, and patient affordability with smart integrations and real-time eligibility can streamline healthcare workflows.
It plans to bring its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis small molecule to the clinic in the next two years.
Minerva Surgical's ablation procedure to reduce menstruation can, ostensibly, be completed in less than four minutes.
The company has a "unique" approach to treating Alzheimer's, CEO Arnon Rosenthal says - taking an immunotherapy approach to neurodegenerative disease.
A spinoff of Sofinnova Ventures, Healthquest Partners focuses more on diagnostics, medical devices and health IT startups.
Employee assistance programs have become essential tools for organizations aiming to address mental health challenges, reduce burnout and foster healthier workplaces.
PaxVax will use the funding to pay off its debts, as well as launch a cholera vaccien called Vaxchora.
Audentes Therapeutics, a San Francisco-based gene therapy startup, just raised $65 million to advance three candidates to the clinic that treat X-linked myotubular myopathy, Pompe disease and a rare form of tachycardia called CPVT.
The Altura device offers a way to graft to the renal artery in a less invasive manner that's meant to be simpler and more intuitive.
The Fogarty Institute just launched three new startups, all in women's health. The Silicon Valley-based nonprofit helps medical device upstarts get off their feet and avoid the "valley of death."
Incorporating aquatic therapy can enhance patient outcomes and shorten recovery times for health care professionals. In the Chicago suburbs, the demand for such programs is rising.
Bay Area startup SutroVax just raised $22 million for work in developing conjugate vaccines - and likely improving upon existing inoculations for pneumococcal conditions.
Bay Area startup Channel Medsystems' technology freezes the uterine lining to prevent excess menstrual building. It just raised $23.9 million for this device, which can be used in less than three minutes.
Expanding the oral targeted therapy offerings for GI diseases like IBD, Protagonist Therapeutics plans to go up against the blockbusters like Humira and Remicade
Mousera, the brainchild of Proteus alum Timothy Robertson, is building a data-heavy platform to accelerate preclinical drug discovery and development.
The three West Coast venture firms are teaming up to build a stealth new startup called Nexcida Therapeutics. They are developing therapeutics for infectious disease, but haven't disclosed anything else.