If you had to pick a dominant theme in Blueprint Health’s sixth accelerator class, varied approaches to healthcare data would be my choice. Out of seven healthcare startups, three are working with healthcare data to either make it more accessible and useful, to aggregate drug price information, or to analyze it. Interestingly, the class also […]
The Affordable Care Act’s call for a shift to pay for performance is spurring new ways to assess physicians’ performance. MediQuire has jumped in with a tool to track clinicians using metrics such as Medicare measures, guideline standards and comparing performance relative to their peers. At Blueprint Health’s demo day, the co-founder and CEO Klaus […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
“Clinical trials are expensive, slow and complex… We have an innovation desert.” Not exactly what you’d expect someone from big pharma to say. Craig Lipset is the head of clinical innovation at Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) — the biggest of the big pharma. He made the memorable introduction to ProofPilot at Blueprint Health’s demo day. It […]
Medical staff performance tools, health literacy and an online platform to develop and carry out research studies are among Blueprint Health’s fifth class of health IT startups Among some news highlights from its fourth class, CredSimple is deploying its software as a service credentialing services at three hospitals this quarter. BoardVitals raised $500,000 from Rothenberg […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly two years since it picked its inaugural class of entrepreneurs to respond to trends in healthcare. Now the health IT accelerator in New York Blueprint Health is gearing up for class number five. Looking back on its first graduates, Dr. Brad Weinberg, who co-founded the program with […]
Another day, another class of digital health startups. That’s how it feels sometimes, with so many accelerators working with dozens of new companies each year. While there are plenty of “me-too” startups entering crowded markets, accelerators are still managing to find some fresh and interesting gems. Blueprint Health’s winter program kicks off this week with […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In a 2011 New Yorker piece, surgeon-journalist Atul Gawande wrote that surgery was “no more physically difficult than writing in cursive.” Rather, it’s about familiarity and judgment. “You learn the problems that can occur during a particular procedure or with a particular condition, and you learn how to either prevent or respond to those problems.” […]
A startup focused on empowering patients by giving them a better way to check their symptoms online has developed what might be WebMD symptom checker’s slightly more attractive and interactive challenger. AHEAD Research founders Craig Monsen and David Do, both Johns Hopkins University medical school students, have used data from the Centers from Disease Control […]
Helping pharmacy benefit managers allocate money to medication adherence programs, providing three dimensional surgical animations on mobile devices for salespeople and simplifying workers’ compensation bills are among the problems being attacked by the nine companies in Blueprint Health’s second class that kicked off this week. The New York program led by Mathew Farkash and Dr […]
When Blueprint Health was launched as a healthcare accelerator last year, it joined RockHealth and Health Box as seed stage vehicles to fund and grow primarily health IT startups. More recently other incubators and accelerators and hybrids have moved into the space including StartUp Health and New York Digital Health Accelerator. As New York-based Blueprint […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Two young entrepreneurs are hoping to improve and socialize the search for health-related information on the Web with a new platform that’s some kind of marriage between a message board, WebMD, Reddit and Match.com. Meddik operates on one of the foundations of the growing e-patient movement: the idea that doctors have clinical knowledge about a […]
Seed stage accelerator Blueprint Health wants to house 100 healthcare entrepreneurs in what would be a healthcare hub at its Soho office. Blueprint Health Co-Work will house 100 entrepreneurs leading companies with one to 10 employees. Startups can choose between memberships from $250 to $400 with privileges that include discounted access to Blueprint Health classes […]
Blueprint Health's inaugural class of nine companies made their pitch to a crowded room of investors as the early stage companies presented ways to try to relieve the pain points they identified in country's the healthcare system.
A medical records startup is hoping to take what is for many doctor’s offices an unorganized, frustrating process and make it not only simpler but also more profitable. Healthcare entrepreneur Matt Cottrell’s newest venture is 5 O’clock Records, an online platform that helps doctors’ offices streamline the work flow for fulfilling medical records requests from […]
Blueprint Health will add a second class later this year following the massive response the start-up accelerator received for its inaugural spring class for healthcare IT companies. Blueprint, led by Mathew Farkash and Dr. Brad Weinberg, received 300 applications for a class of nine. The company has been able to build an ensemble of 120 […]