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 […]
New penalties in the HIPAA update are forcing hospitals to take data breaches more seriously, as service providers like Verizon have found (here’s a short summary). Updates to the rule treat health IT vendors as business partners with shared liability for patient data breaches. That has spurred them to have more meaningful conversations with Verizon […]
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
With the current demand for well-trained health IT professionals expected to rise even more, New York’s Department of Education is hoping to produce students that will be well prepared. Next year it’s launching a health IT school that combines four years of high school with a two-year technical school. It’s part of a wider initiative […]
Stanford University produces more alumni entrepreneurs than any other university, and now it’s created its first fund to invest directly in those early-stage companies emerging from the university community. Stanford has established a three-year partnership with Stanford Hospital & Clinics and StartX, an accelerator for students, faculty, alumni and staff, under which the institutions will […]
The use of big data to provide more targeted treatments to fight cancer to improve outcomes is steadily evolving. In a bid to combat the second leading of cause of death in the U.S., companies and groups are analyzing the genetics of patients’ cancer cells to indicate which treatments could have the best outcomes and […]
Nearly one-third of the 36 emerging technology pioneers chosen by the World Economic Forum this year have implications for the life sciences and health IT space. They represent robotics, noninvasive prenatal testing, using edible identifiers to guard against counterfeit drugs and an anti-smoking vaccine. Since 2000, the World Economic Forum has identified companies based on […]
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
Another seemingly harmless bureaucratic initiative aimed at physicians sunk its taproot deep in the daily workings of medicine this month. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act promises transparency in all industry dealings with physicians by shedding “light” on the issue of payments to physicians from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. In turn, it will save […]
No one should be surprised that fertility is a burgeoning area of activity for iPhone and other app providers. I mean, seriously, the love affair that so many people seem to have with their phones would suggest that human/iPhone spawn are not too far down the line. All I can say is thank God that […]
Electronic medical records. DNA sequencing. Big data. These technology trends are changing the way medicine is practiced today — but what’s coming next? I scoured the web, reached out to futurists and drew from past conversations with industry leaders to compile a list of the next generation of disruptive technologies that are on the brink […]
If you want to get a better sense of the amount of patient data used in the development of Futura mHealth’s COPD app, SmartScope, to reduce readmissions for the chronic condition, you have to go all the way back to 2006. That’s when Dr. Gerard Criner of Temple University Hospital began using a palm pilot […]
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
The healthcare industry has created more than 50 petabytes of data, but much of it never reaches the people who could benefit most from it. Former healthcare consultant Johnson Chen wanted to find a way to bring all of the useful, publicly available data from clinical drug trials to consumers who are taking those medications. […]
Investments in 51 digital health companies totaled $259.5 million in July, according to a new report by StartUp Health. Its SlideShare report, which resembles Rock Health’s format, notes that the five biggest digital health deals accounted for 59 percent of digital health funding last month. But these companies also offer a window into some of […]
Although there’s been a trend over the past couple of years of venture investment in biotech going into companies in the later stages of their development, a new report illustrates the result of that trend. Of the 18 venture-backed “big exit” merger and acquisition deals in biotech in 2012 (an eight year high), half were […]
I don’t watch much TV, but when I go to the gym I can’t help but watch Progressive’s perky spokeswoman, Flo helping people with their insurance. My favorites are the ones where she accompanies policyholders on their adventurous outings. Progressive has pioneered a clever Snapshot device that is mounted in a policyholder’s car to monitor […]
It’s only been a few months since StartUp Health and GE’s three year entrepreneur program got underway, but that hasn’t stopped Arpeggi, one of the program’s 13 companies, from being acquired. Arpeggi, a big data, genomic sequencing analysis business with a name inspired by the CSO’s fondness for Radiohead is the target of Gene by […]