A closer look at TEXT ME clinical trial reveals 5 ways to improve clinical validation of apps
Among the observations: it's not good enough to look at apps as a standalone intervention strategy.
How one of healthcare’s hottest startups avoided being a middling wellness company
Validic's Drew Schiller: "Entrepreneurs don't understand what they're getting into when you start a company."
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.
Internet of Things enabler Validic raises $12.5M to add staff, support product development
Validic, a software developer with technology that suppoorts the growth of the Internet of Things in healthcare, has raised $12.5 million to expand its staff to support more products and to expand its customer base. Kaiser Permanente’s venture arm led the Series B round. “We are currently hiring for roles in technology development, operations and […]
A dietitian billing platform wants to help navigate reimbursement challenges
The Affordable Care Act expanded reimbursement for preventive services such as nutrition counseling. Health IT startup, Healthy Bytes has responded by developing an administrative support platform that also includes a nutrition-focused electronic health record. The company, which is part of Blueprint Health’s accelerator, initiated beta testing for its billing platform this week. In her pitch […]
Validic offers API to entrepreneurs as influence grows
Validic has been adding a diverse group of companies interested in using its data aggregation tools to unharness data from devices and apps. But in a move that is likely to accelerate that trend, it has begun offering its API to healthcare entrepreneurs to connect their own products to Validic’s network. It is making the […]
In silico approach to develop cancer drugs: Cloud Pharmaceuticals and University of Florida team up
Could be the beginnings of a win to the in silico approach to drug development: Cloud Pharmaceuticals is working with University of Florida to develop new cancer drugs that are conceived on a computer. The Research Triangle Park-based startup will share intellectual property with the university, and the two will jointly fund 10 research projects. So far, […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Videos at discharge emphasize showing rather than telling heart failure patients how to change behavior
When congestive heart failure patients leave hospitals, a healthcare media startup wants them to be given a parting gift at discharge: a DVD. The idea is to help patients better understand their care plan by showing them what they need to do to change their behavior and avoid becoming a rapid readmission statistic and to […]
Big data analytics startup adding healthcare channel
For healthcare reform to make the shift from the fee for service to outcomes based reimbursement that its architects envision, providers need to have a way to analyze big data that can make accurate predictions about patient populations, particularly people with chronic conditions. It’s going to take a lot of data scientists to respond to […]
Viamet spinout Innocrin Pharma raises $8M for hard-to-treat prostate cancer
Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, the spanking-new spinout of successful antifungal company Viamet, just raised $8 million according to regulatory filings. The company has taken Viamet’s findings and translated them as a therapy for a tough-to-treat form of prostate cancer. This past October, Viamet withdrew its plans to go public in favor of raising $60 million in private equity […]
Three new life sciences accelerators in the works, Alexandria Real Estate CEO says
Alexandria Real Estate is developing three new accelerators around the country, aiming to launch startups in the agricultural, digital health and biotech spaces, CEO Joel Marcus told MedCity News. The life sciences real estate development firm plans to open an agricultural sciences-related accelerator in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina by the end of this year and a digital health […]
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Cloud Pharmaceuticals raising $20M for its “in silico” approach to drug development
We’re all plenty familiar with in-vivo and in-vitro, but Cloud Pharmaceuticals is taking the “in-silico“ approach to drug development. Its “inverse design” platform uses cloud supercomputing to cherry pick and formulate molecules that will work as new medications – cutting out much of the early lab expenses by conducting the earliest drug discovery processes virtually. The Research Triangle […]
Are you developing an implantable bioelectronic device? GSK may have $1M for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO_lNh-SCis It’s only been a few months since GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) launched a $50 million fund to invest in life science industries developing bioelectronic technology. Now, it has kicked off an innovation challenge to crowdsource the technology. Specifically, it’s looking for an implantable device that can interpret and “write” the body’s electrical signals. Not only […]
Mark Cuban: Personalized health is the future of healthcare
Billlionaire investor Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and Landmark Theaters and is a regular on Shark Tank, has expanded his interests to personalized health. He is part of a group of investors in mobile health startup, Validic,which raised $760,000 in a seed round. The Durham, N.C., company has developed a platform to integrate […]
Angel investors pump $7 million into hospital textile manufacturer combating HAI
A healthcare textile company led by a pharma veteran and textile manufacturer has raised fresh capital. The $7 million PurThread raised will be used toward the growth, research and development of garments with anti-microbial technology to reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections, according to a company statement. The Durham, N.C., company’s approach is to embed […]
IBM’s Watson supercomputer brain’s toughest challenge: reducing readmissions
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 […]