Founded in 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Carrot Health seeks to bring together the worlds of consumer data and healthcare data to help organizations drive revenue growth. The startup won the Pitch Perfect contest at MedCity INVEST Twin Cities last month.
A panel of three experts at MedCity INVEST Twin Cities chatted about digital health technologies and what's standing in the way of adoption across the board.
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.
At MedCity INVEST Twin Cities, Bright Health cofounder and president Kyle Rolfing talked to Medical Alley Association president and CEO Shaye Mandle about why a focus on patients and consumers is key to success.
During the keynote at MedCity INVEST Twin Cities, Zipnosis cofounder and CEO Jon Pearce discussed how the three amigos of healthcare — the patient, the provider and the payer — are key to digital health adoption.
Surgeons at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons gave a clear signal that in the future joint replacement will see more use of virtual rehab.
The goal: cut down on healthcare disparities in minority communities.
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.
UnitedHealth today unveiled a series of interesting upgrades to its Health4Me app, including mobile payments and integration into wearables. It’s yet another expansion of the app, which until the middle of last year was for members only. In July, UnitedHealthcare opened it to anyone who wanted to check healthcare pricing. This moved Health4Me into the […]
Though lots of venture capital for medtech has evaporated, Versant Ventures now seeks $250 million for its fifth medtech fund. The venture capital firm, which has strong presence in biotech and medtech, has a diverse California and Minnesota-based portfolio that includes medical device companies such as Respicardia, Zyga Technology and Autonomic Technologies. According to a […]
Medtronic‘s CEO Omar Ishrak has advised Cretex, one of its suppliers, and the labor group striking the company, Local 563, to “negotiate in good faith.” At the end of August, Local 563 asked Medtronic (MDT) to step in and stand up for workers’ retirement funds after Cretex slashed pensions. I asked whether Medtronic had a […]
Earlier this week, Cretex union concrete laborers took their strike to the Minnesota State Fair. There, they again asked Minnesotans to appeal to the state’s famous medical devices giant Medtronic (MDT). Laborers Local 563 has had regular presence outside Medtronic’s headquarters, addressed CEO Omar Ishrak and shareholders at the company’s annual meeting and placed a […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Eagle Scout Mason Stoltz unveiled a new medical device at Children’s Hospital earlier this week: a music therapy cart. Working with the hospital and Twin Cities industrial design firm Worrell, Stoltz came up with the idea for the carts by watching his sister in the hospital. “She was really sick and she didn’t really want […]
The medical device sector is ravenous for fresh capital. But they’re not desperate enough to trust crowdfunding. That was confirmed at this week’s 10x Medical Device Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a panel on new sources for capital. It was a bone-jarringly frank conversation that featured two entrepreneurs including Steve Anderson, CEO of Preceptis Medical. […]
Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak summed up the changes underway at medical device companies like his in a few succinct minutes on Monday at the World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C. “We’ve been viewed and viewed ourselves as simply a device provider as opposed to a healthcare solution provider which is what this is,” said […]
Last month I interviewed the CEO of Minnesota medical device start-up Mardil Medical who did not quit when he couldn’t raise capital in the U.S. Jim Buck thought well, if U.S. companies can run clinical trials there, why not go there and try to raise some moolah. Looks like his effort did not go to […]
Minnesota start-up OnPoint Medical Diagnostics, which has been seeking $5 million for more than a year, has now managed to raise $958,800, according to a recent amended regulatory filing. The company did a reverse merger with Vertical Health Solutions, a Florida corporation in April, 2011, becoming its wholly owned subsidiary, thereby separating itself from a stumbling […]