Biocrossroads, which provides money and support to Indiana’s life sciences industry, announced the seven finalists who stand to gain startup funding in its annual New Venture Competition. Six have biotech or healthcare in their sights. On Oct. 21, five of these companies will compete for $25,000 and access to the Indiana Seed II Fund‘s staff […]
If any sector gets more flack for being slow to adopt innovative IT than healthcare, it’s the pharmaceutical industry. Yet, as companies have been forced to find new ways to streamline work flows and reduce costs, many are finding that some cloud-based tools could help. Cloud software solutions are taking on several different tasks in […]
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Mobile health company Kinsa continued its victory lap around the startup competition circuit at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit today, taking home top honors at the summit’s first ever new ventures healthcare challenge. Eleven startups from the StartUp Health Network, which co-presented the challenge with Cleveland Clinic, pitched to a panel of judges that […]
Two years after it regularly beat human contestants on Jeopardy, IBM’s Watson supercomputer is coming up with ways to tackle much more onerous challenges. Software designed with its technology to filter electronic medical records and extract meaningful information is being mined for predictive analytics applications. Hospitals are adopting the software in several ways from generating […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBhZoTN2bvM Life might be like a box of chocolates, but for the actor who made the line famous in Forrest Gump, he’ll probably have to do without them. This week, Academy Award winner Tom Hanks joined the rapidly increasing Type 2 diabetes population. He talked about it during an interview on Late Night with David […]
There is a great deal of interest in using big data to make predictions or earlier diagnoses of health problems from diabetes to readmission. Heart disease, the greatest killer in the U.S., is the focus of the latest research effort with the goal of improving outcomes and taking preventive measures for people found to be […]
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
Digital health venture investment has surged in 2013 with dealflow in the third quarter already surpassing 2012. Underscoring that trend, health IT companies will have an increased presence at the upcoming angel and venture investment conference IMPACT venture summit. It reflects the shift of investment dollars coming into the sector and the scaling back of […]
CDC had to furlough 8,754 people. They protected you yesterday, can’t tomorrow. Microbes/other threats didn’t shut down. We are less safe. — Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) October 2, 2013 While the shutdown puts as much as 70 percent of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on furlough, Athenahealth will use its big […]
It’s three quarters in and digital health venture funding in 2013 has already surpassed what it was in 2012. So far this year, investors have packed $1.5 billion into digital health companies through 145 deals, according to calculations by Rock Health. Just last quarter, the amount totaled $673 million, a 37 percent spike from the […]
With the launch of the health insurance exchanges this week to fulfill the core of Obamacare health insurance provisions, health IT companies are already sizing up the big data ramifications. Social Health Insights pulled together open data made available from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Data Initiative. Its interactive map tracks what […]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
Big data once again stole the show at an innovation challenge, as developers find new ways to integrate software into their web-based and mobile apps. The DC to VC challenge at the Health 2.0 Fall conference in Santa Clara cast a spotlight on two companies for its cash award, according to a statement from Morganthaler […]
October is the make or break day for Obamacare. I predict that the software will be buggy, sign ups will be low and everyone will be unhappy.
Sprint (NYSE: S) is upping its mobile health game in a new partnership with Techstars. The mobile service provider and its startup accelerator partner will fund and mentor 10 health technology ventures next spring as they launch the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator. Based in Sprint’s hometown of Kansas City, the accelerator will provide selected companies […]
As part of its partnership with a pharmaceutical company to improve adherence for its diabetes drug, mobile health startup MediSafe made an interesting discovery, according to its founder Bob Shor. Caucasian men on the East Coast were missing their 7 pm dosage on weeknights. What was the cause? Jeopardy? Dinner? Or did they leave their […]
Monday, September 16 marks the beginning of the 8th annual Healthcare IT Week. Healthcare IT Week was started and continues on as a collaborative forum for public and private healthcare constituents to discuss the value of health information technology (health IT) for the U.S. healthcare system. It is amazing to see how far health IT […]