Radiology outsourcer Radisphere raises $27.5M for technology
Radiology outsourcing firm Radisphere National Radiology Group has raised $27.5 million in a Series C investment round.
Midwest health care start-ups attract $780M in 2009; down 26% from 2008
Midwest health care start-ups attracted $780 million in investments in 2009, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. While the number of companies winning investments last year -- 156 -- was about the same as in 2008, the dollar volume of the investments dropped 26 percent.
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‘Cloud radiologists’ Franklin & Seidelmann raise $12.5 million
The market for teleradiology continues to grow, and Franklin & Seidelmann has expanded into new markets, as well. Earlier this year, it added three Critical Access Hospitals -- far-flung facilities in mountainous areas that provide acute care -- in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Idaho. At the end of 2008 it announced expanded services that included final reads of scans for night-time emergency departments.