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Healthbox to help entrepreneurs inside and outside Intermountain get to “yes”

Healthbox and Intermountain Healthcare’s partnership looks like it’s deepening. Earlier this year, Intermountain invested in Healthbox Global Partners, the accelerator’s parent company. Now Healthbox is working with Intermountain to support hospital employees with entrepreneurial ideas and help bring outside ideas into the health system. The announcement listed three areas where Healthbox is collaborating with Intermountain. […]

By Stephanie Baum

Health IT

Evermind raises $2.5M Series A to convert coffee machine and TV into remote monitoring tools

Evermind has closed a $2.5 million Series A round for a remote monitoring tool that uses appliances as a proxy for human activity in a noninvasive approach to the aging in place challenge.

By Stephanie Baum

With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?

Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.

Health IT

Early stage digital health companies get some love from Maryland fund

Vheda Health, a digital health company that seeks to help people with chronic conditions, is one of a handful of healthcare startups that have received backing from a commercialization fund from Maryland’s Technology Development Corp. They were part of a list of 15 companies that received $1.5 million. It follows a funding allocation from earlier […]

By Stephanie Baum

Daily

Blueprint Health grad ProofPilot raises $1.85M to make clinical trials cheaper and easier to run

Health IT company ProofPilot, which graduated from Blueprint Health’s accelerator earlier this year, has raised $1.85 million to help make clinical trial design and management for biotech and medical device companies run smoother. The information comes from an amended Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Earlier this year the company had […]

By Stephanie Baum

Daily

Q2 checkup: Three forces shaping digital health innovation in 2014

By Aman Bhandari With 2014 halfway behind us, it’s time for a bi-annual look back at digital health innovation so far. What have been our major influencers? Six months is a very short time span in which to say anything is shaping a sector, but it’s also a good time frame for a snapshot. It […]

By Staff

Daily

What should be a healthcare startup’s prize for good work? [Hint: It’s not necessarily money]

If you were to ask most early-stage companies what they’d consider to be a decent prize from a group of investors for a well pitched device or service, they’d probably say money. But at an entrepreneur forum at Penn Medicine, the rewards were as varied as the groups offering them. Venture capitalists, angel investors, accelerators […]

By Stephanie Baum

Daily

Will IBC innovation center help payer to embrace startup ideas, collaboration culture?

Taking a page from national payers such as Aetna and Humana, Independence Blue Cross opened an innovation lab this week. The idea is to use it to examine the best ways to integrate startup ideas from DreamIt Health companies and research insights produced with its provider collaborations at Penn Medicine and New York University Langone […]

By Stephanie Baum

Physicians

OmniLife Health’s Clinical Workflow Solution Focuses on Complex Care

OmniLife Health's initial focus with its complex care coordination platform is organ transplant care.

Health Tech

HealthBook+ CEO Shares Vision for How People Can Own Their Health by Leveraging Data and AI

HealthBook+ provides a way for individuals to aggregate and use their personal health information safely and securely to power AI engines that direct people to their next best health action. Importantly, it also gives employers predictive insights to help them provide the most relevant benefits for their employees.