NantWorks' Patrick Soon-Shiong and leaders from Norton Healthcare and Sutter Health have been appointed to a new Health IT Advisory Committee formed through the passing of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Henrik Molin, Physitrack CEO and cofounder, credited Apple's Mobility Partner Program with bringing the two companies together.
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.
Also, prolific life science entrepreneur and investor Alfred Mann has died and Doctors Without Borders has taken exception to Otsuka Pharmaceutical's tuberculosis treatment price tag.
Diagnostic Driving's mobile simulated driving assessment is the product of five years of research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Research Institute.
It will use the funding to advance its approach which it describes as somewhere between a communication device and an EHR.
Think technology accelerators are for startups? Think again.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Medical image sharing business lifeIMAGE has raised $17.5 million to help scale the company.
That flurry of innovation found at a hackathon’s tough to replicate in a business environment. Well, MIT’s going to try and change that. At the close of MIT’s healthcare Grand Hack, the organizers announced they’ll be launching “HackMed Institute,” or the Hacking Medicine Institute, with aims to help educate startups and larger private companies in […]
Looks like NEA will invest about $1 billion in healthcare startups over the next few years. Areas like immuno-oncology, electrophysiology and
A security company wants to tackle the $55 billion cost of prescription drug abuse market using biometrics. Rx DrugSAFE is applying its technology to safely store prescription medications in lock boxes to prevent unintentional overdoses, particularly among teens. In an interview with Rx DrugSAFE principal Lorraine Yarde at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, she said […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
A mobile health startup that’s been working with DaVita’s care management subsidiary Village Health has expanded its collaboration with the company across its outpatient dialysis centers and its managed care business Healthcare Partners. The deal will expand the use of Cureatr’s care coordination tools to thousands of clinicians. “It’s a unique deal for us as […]
A health IT company that has built a business from digitizing the process of setting up clinical trials and getting them underway plans to use a recent fundraise to speed up other aspects of clinical trials, including patient recruitment. In a phone interview with goBalto CEO Sujay Jadhav, he explained that the company has automated […]
Interoperability is the ability to make sub-systems and organizations work together (inter-operate) for attainment of a common goal. In healthcare, implementation and connection of EHR systems and the data they collect allows for us to impact patient care to become a value-driven one for all patients. The opposite of interoperability is not the lack of […]
One area of digital health where consolidation will continue to increase is the realm of cloud based services for physician practices. That includes apps tied to all the usual admin tools from billing to scheduling to prior authorization. One company that falls into that category is Azalea Health. The health IT company, which acquired Atlanta-based […]
A care coordination company to improve communication between hospitals and senior care facilities and make the transitions between the two less problematic has raised $4 million from a set of institutional investors. In a phone interview with MedCity News, Caremerge CEO and founder Asif Khan said the company would use the funding to add up […]