Oh to be a healthcare startup with billionaire investors fighting for a piece of your business. That's the situation in which DNAsimple CEO and founder Olivier Noel found himself when Mark Cuban and Richard Branson made competing offers to the entrepreneur on Shark Tank.
The two investors capped a long week with an entertaining keynote to close HIMSS17.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
"You can't control your own destiny if you're hiring external design companies," Mark Cuban said.
The Philly startup is scheduled to appear on Shark Tank on February 12.
Ashton Kutcher has made plenty of shrewd investments in companies like Skype and has his own fund but there should be a healthcare investor for the new season.
Shark Tank's Daymond John is planning to start an incubator that could address a very specific type of startup.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The National Business Group on Health, a coalition of mega-corporations, today launched its Health Innovations Forum, which the Washington-based organization described as "a 'Shark Tank'-like initiative designed to help accelerate the adoption of effective health care technologies and solutions by large employers."
It’s not really surprising that our cell phones have 18 times more bacteria than a bathroom surface, when you really think about it. But do consumers really care to fix that? Two cousins from Provo, Utah pitched their product PhoneSoap, a sanitizer/charger for cell phones that uses UV light to clean phones, to the Shark […]
Shark Tank is pretty good at destroying the medical startups it puts on the show. It had more easy prey this week with Napwell, designed to make it easier to wake up from and avoid bad power naps. “I’ve never had a bad power nap,” Shark Mark Cuban says during Napwell’s pitch. Uh oh! Napwell […]
The Squatty Potty sounds like a product that would potty train your toddlers and make it slightly more fun (if that’s possible), but it’s much more than that, and it actually made some investment headway on Friday’s episode of ABC’s Shark Tank. Judy, inventor Robert Edwards’ mother, was struggling with constipation and realized that the […]
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.
Many entrepreneurs are pitching to investors constantly, but very few get the opportunity to get in front of the Sharks on ABC’s Shark Tank. Not all of them get deals, but they can learn something from the investment gurus. Some of those in the healthcare field have had good experiences. When TJ Hale, author of the Ultimate […]
Boston Children’s Hospital has selected three top finalists for its first “Innovation Tank,” which will doll out $30,000 to the winner. The winner will be named on Oct. 31 at the hospital’s Global Pediatric Summit and Awards, Taking on Tomorrow. The finalists include: CareAline Products, founded by Kezia and Mike Fitzgerald. The couple created CareAline […]
Healthcare returned to Shark Tank tonight, and this time the investors liked the pitch but hated the $10 million valuation Dr. Amy Baxter put on her consumer medical device company. She appeared on the show asking for a $500,000 investment to scale her business, which makes a cold and vibration device to reduce the sting […]
Mom, doctor and entrepreneur Amy Baxter and her bee-shaped pain relief device Buzzy will come face-to-face with TV’s toughest investors tonight on the reality show Shark Tank. Hopefully she’ll fare better than the duo of doctors who delivered what Mark Cuban deemed the “worst presentation ever” on the show last fall. Baxter, a pediatric emergency […]
We have the sharks for an all healthcare Shark Tank, now we need the startups. Although someone pointed out on Twitter that Vinod Khosla should be in this group, and it’s true, he should be. So with that addition, what entrepreneurs should be pitching to this group on Friday night? Deanna, Stephanie, Amanda and I […]