Silicon Valley joins the search for cures in medicine
The high-technology world is becoming so enmeshed in the healthcare world that it is becoming hard to tell where the lab ends and the coder begins. And the promise is intriguing.
The high-technology world is becoming so enmeshed in the healthcare world that it is becoming hard to tell where the lab ends and the coder begins. And the promise is intriguing.
The Series C round totaled $41.2 million and included Rosemark Smart Capital, GE Ventures, Venrock Associates, Aberdare Ventures and Aeris Capital.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
The app is part of a larger effort in which LeanTaaS taps into non-sensitive electronic health records data, then builds predictive models to forecast usage patterns and allocate OR time efficiently.
Competitors in this burgeoning healthcare fintech space include Change Healthcare, which rebranded in the fourth quarter of 2015 from Emdeon, RelayHealth, Cake Health, and WellnessFX.
About 20 percent of Fitbit Blaze and Alta buyers had come back to the Fitbit community after they had been inactive for 90 days or more.
At Qualcomm Ventures, Young launched dRx Capital, a joint venture with Novartis and managed Qualcomm Life Fund's investments in digital health.
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.
The Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers blog post calls for a restructure of the system architecture of wearables as well as the "building-block device structures for displays, processors, memories, sensors, radios and batteries."
WELL Health's Messenger service helps healthcare practices send photos, videos, paperwork and pre and post visit instructions to patients, and have group chats with other members of the care team.
The Connectivity Bridge is designed to be used with a 3G signal and medical devices such as a blood glucose monitor.
Adam Pellegrini, divisional Vice President of Digital Health at Walgreens said: "Lumo [Bodytech]'s approach illustrates the future of the Internet of Wellness Things combined with rewards to drive behavior change."
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
A wearable alone won't solve the nation's obesity problem or help people manage congestive heart failure. Data needs context, a Silicon Valley startup executive explained.
Fitbit's fitness tracker designs focused more on athletics and less on fashion, but that's changing with the launch of its Fitbit Alta model.
The investment firm has had success with wearables investments such as Misfit and Basis so it may revisit this area with its latest fund.
Its previous investments spanned patient communication, physician social networks and cloud based electronic health records.
A remote monitoring business, People Power, launched an Indiegogo campaign this week to promote its Presence Pro Care sensor tech aimed at caregivers.