At the Idea Fest this fall, Roger Newton, founder of Esperion Therapeutics started his talk by thanking his mentors. He started in college with the person who taught him bench science and named individuals who have helped him during his entire career. Thanking people is often reserved for the end – of a book or […]
The health insurance exchanges (HIXs) resulting from Obamacare are upon us, and by January 1, 2014, all Americans will be required to have health insurance. There are few markets that are mandated by law to include virtually every American man, woman and child, so this opportunity is particularly juicy to investors, and the next few […]
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.
With health IT week kicking off today, it’s a good time to check out some of the cool data mashups Brian Norris and Mark Silverberg have done through their company, Social Health Insights. They have built a business of collecting big data from government resources and social media to create useful visualizations that add insight […]
Eating disorders affect about 24 million people in the U.S. and have the highest mortality rate of any other psychiatric problem. Only about one in 10 with anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders seek treatment. Jenna Tregarthen, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Stanford University, was frustrated with patients’ incomplete therapy homework and thought there was a […]
As a registered nurse, Jill Drew has watched the number of type 2 diabetes patients with chronic kidney failure grow. More than half of these patients have an arterioveinous fistula surgically created in the arm to create an easier, safer access point for dialysis, thanks to a CMS initiative called Fistula First. But Drew has […]
Medtech Women will focus on value in healthcare at its annual Vision conference on Sept. 10 in Menlo Park, Calif. According to the organization’s website, the group brings together medtech’s “business leaders, financial investors, researchers, physicians and experts in new product commercialization.” “A key pillar of the MedtechVision conference is fostering a forum that provokes […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Some of the best healthcare startup stories begin with a doctor. Frustrated by an inefficient procedure or lack of a good tool, he devises a solution to bring to the masses. If it seems like you’ve heard this story more and more recently, it’s not just your imagination. More docs are stepping out of their […]
Paul Hartung, CEO of Cognoptix, Inc., a startup that has created a drug-device that could diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier in patients, is also the first person to have a syndicated angel deal in the Northeast. He’s raised more than $20 million for Cognoptix, and worked on the LASIK team at Summit until it was brought through […]
The employer mandate is delayed, the computer algorithms can’t figure out how to charge higher insurance rates for smokers, a few pioneer ACOs are backing out of the program and needless to say, Republicans are still fighting to repeal the Affordable Care Act. We had more than 50 entrepreneurs at CONVERGE this week. We talked […]
Of course the diabetes community would like to have a less invasive way to check blood sugar and self-administer insulin. Those things probably wouldn’t cut rates of diabetes and comorbidities at a population level, though, without some forward thinking in other areas of healthcare. When an attendee at CONVERGE on Wednesday asked a panel of […]
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 an effort to bring the spirit of open innovation into the siloed, risk-averse world of government, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is looking for a few good entrepreneurs. In October it launched the first session of the HHSentrepreneurs program, which pairs creative minds from the private sector with a team of […]
The time has come for those of us loyal Google Reader users to buckle down and start migrating our RSS feeds to a different platform. (If you’re like me, you’ve been putting this off for the past three months.) But in the spirit of onward and upward, here are a few blogs I’d recommend any […]
Next Wave Health’s mantra is that it wants to grow the next big idea in healthcare, even if it only exists on a whiteboard. The newly formed Huntsville, Texas, venture launched Tuesday to provide capital and business wisdom to companies that need assistance turning a big idea into a profitable product or service. “There’s a […]
At one point during my trip to FutureMed earlier this year, I found myself seated next to a young man — noticeably younger than many of the entrepreneurs and doctors-in-training who were attending. Shaggy haircut, jeans, smartphone always in hand. Must be a local high schooler who had won some kind of contest to attend, […]
Big network? Big deal! The reality is that only one network matters when it comes to raising capital. That network is the group of individuals who are absolutely passionate about your industry and the business opportunity. And for 99% of us, that isn’t our friends, family and former colleagues. Overconfidence in an existing network is […]