The innovation institute run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create a venture studio to turn the university’s digital health research concepts into full-fledged startups. AWS’ platform beat out the other major cloud providers because it was “the most entrepreneurial,” according to the venture studio’s managing director.
At MedCity INVEST, Alyssa Jaffee, senior associate at Pritzker Group Venture Capital, gave healthcare startups a pointer by putting a twist on the famous line from "Field of Dreams."
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Digital health startups Focus Motion and Konduct are participating in the 10-company accelerator LA Dodgers are running with R/GA, according to MobiHealthNews.
Boston startup Cohealo announced it has completed a $9 million series A financing to expand its cloud-based platform that seeks to help hospitals and health systems better manage medical equipment. Cohealo has identified medical equipment asset management as a potential trouble spot for hospitals, with expensive non-emergency equipment often going under utilized, thus costing the […]
CareDox, a New York startup focused on cloud-based storage solutions for health records, is in the midst of raising about $3.1 million, according to SEC filings. The company, founded in 2010 through Startup Health Academy, is headed by Hesky Kutscher with the purpose of making health information more easily accessible, specifically for schools, camps and […]
Need something to help you eat more slowly and lose weight? There’s a fork for that. The French company, HAPILABS Ltd. came out with a fork that vibrates if you are eating too fast. The HAPIfork measures the length of your meals, how many forkfuls you eat and length of each bite. The goal is […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
You never want to be the last speaker at the end of a long conference day. Many people in the 4:30 slot even mention this strategic disadvantage, “I know I am standing between you and happy hour, so I’ll make it quick.” The best end-of-the-day speaker I have ever heard was Dr. Victor Montori at […]
The combined intellectual power of crowds has never been used like this before. CrowdMed’s founder and CEO, Jared Heyman spent a good part of his career studying the wisdom of crowds. So when his sister came down with a debilitating illness during her freshman year of college, the idea of crowdsourcing as a diagnostic tool […]
Today is our February Hangout and we’ll be talking about entrepreneurs who are wrangling big streams of data into manageable intelligence. We also will have a doctor in on the conversation to have a provider-centric reality check in place. Scroll down to see examples of a blood test result from WellnessFX. Tweet your questions to […]