Fountain Health Partners announced its launch, with plans to back companies approaching or already at profitability, with a clear three- to five-year path to a strategic exit. The investment firm was founded by Joey Campanelli, a former executive at Shields Health Solutions, and Jack Euston, a healthcare investment banker with more than a decade of experience in M&A.
Redesign Health closed a $175 million investment round that will fuel the creation of more healthcare startups. The company has already created more than 60 startups since its launch in 2018.
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
While startups in highly regulated industries like healthcare and finance are almost certain to face heightened scrutiny, there are controllable factors that can offset these challenges.
When it comes to her feelings about investing in care delivery startups, it’s a real “mixed bag” for Ulili Onovakpuri, managing partner at Kapor Capital. This is because a lot of them operate on a cash-pay model. She summarized the issue quite succinctly: there’s an incredible amount of innovation happening, but the people who could benefit the most from this type of care will be the last ones to receive it.
The 10 startups that made the cut for Health: US 2018, the venture development program headed up by Village Capital and Kaiser Permanente, seek to address the needs of America's aging population.
The Ziegler Link-age Longevity Fund, a $26.6 million fund established this past summer exclusively focused on the $100 billion aging and home care market, has invested an undisclosed sum into San Francisco startup CareLinx, an online network that connects caregivers and home care services. The CareLinx investment, the amount of which was not disclosed, is […]
Discover the top AI-powered EAP providers for 2026. Compare platforms like Kyan Health and Spring Health on triage speed, global reach, and clinical quality to transform workforce wellbeing.
With medication adherence becoming a focal point across the industry, myriad approaches have arisen to counter the $300 billion challenge, from the relatively simple like text messaging and direct mailers to multifaceted methods that involve increasingly creative uses of technology. One approach involving the latter is the application of artificial intelligence, and New York-based AiCure is […]
As HealthBeat drew to a close, ten digital health startups took to the stage in an attempt to convince healthcare techies (healthies? hechies?) that they were all the next big thing disrupting the toughest problems with in an industry fraught technological hurdles. All have great ideas and intentions, undoubtedly, but a few stood out, in […]
San Francisco startup Decisive Health grabbed top honors from the Livestrong Foundation‘s inaugural Big C competition, taking it with $25,000 for its Treatment Explorer development tool for cancer patients. According to Decisive Health, the tool optimizes cancer patients’ lifestyles with the best corresponding treatment, with customizable features for each patient that can be shared with […]
Over the course of three days at the Mayo Clinic‘s annual Transform conference, featuring scores of healthcare’s top names, several themes stood out. Here’s what I gather were the main points. 1. Economic factors and barriers are just as important in determining health outcomes for the population as a whole. It stands to reason – […]
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Digital health incubator Rock Health is investing in eight new startups and teaming up with three new corporate entities – Blue Shield of California, Deloitte and global healthcare firm Abbott. The new startups being incubated span the healthcare spectrum, from HIPAA compliance to life sciences and biotech. Among them: — Accountable, an online platform that seeks […]
The three-person company launched earlier this week with its platform that seeks to make HIPAA compliance for software developers as easy as TurboTax – a straightforward process for an otherwise complex puzzle.
The future of healthcare was all over MedCity CONVERGE 2014, and not just in the form of vague predictions about robot doctors and implanted sensors that track our every biological process. A doctor, an IT expert and a process improvement expert talked about what hospitals will look like in 2024, which ones will still be […]
I’m building a startup to help investors, acquirers, and service providers etc. connect with startups to do deals. Funding, M&A, customer acquisition–these aren’t new things, but before Mattermark existed these professionals were cooking up their own solutions to this problem, their own proprietary ways of gaining deal intelligence to grow their pipelines. Startups benefit from […]
CIOs are still running to keep up with the latest technology, but these C-suite leaders shouldn’t spread themselves too thin by overlooking basic functionality in the pursuit of pure innovation. That advice comes from Jay Ferro, chief information officer for the American Cancer Society, detailing how the position of CIO has changed, at MedCity News’ […]