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| Jan 4, 2015 | In 2015, Consumer Will Be King In Healthcare | Joe Riley Contributor
Editor’s note: Joe Riley is managing member of the healthcare investment firm Psilos, investors in growth stage digital healthcare. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Care Management Technologies, Caregi... |
| Oct 16, 2014 | As health care shifts toward the consumer, here's where the investor opportunities are | The health insurance industry’s legacy business-to-business model of the past half-century is on the brink of irrelevance. The Affordable Care Act created the opportunity for individuals to shop for insurance directly on public healthcare e... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Report: Health insurance industry will be ‘flipped on its head.’ | The world of health insurance is about to be turned on its head.
Even with the well-known shifts brought on by the ACA, the fundamental business model for health insurers will change dramatically, shifting largely from serving employers and... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Investor: Time for health insurance companies to act like D2C businesses | Health insurers need to make a change fast, according to a new report from investment firm the Psilos Group. The group's 2014 Healthcare Outlook report contends that the shift in insurers' customer base from mostly employers to mostly indiv... |
| Jul 21, 2014 | At SeeChange, Giving Insured Patients Incentives to Stay Healthy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Before he founded SeeChange Health in 2008, CEO Martin Watson was working on new products for UnitedHealthcare Strategy, a wing of the giant healthcare network. As he looked a... |
| Dec 9, 2013 | Key Highlights from Venture+ Forum mHealth Summit 2013 | Lois Drapin, Founder & CEO of the Drapin Group provides a recap of the Venture+ Forum held the day before the official start of the mHealth Summit 2013.
Yes, it’s true. Sunday’s Venture+ Forum, one of the day-long events that takes plac... |
| Nov 29, 2013 | The sharks of healthcare: 5 VCs that should be on ABC | Let’s start with the investors. Here are my picks for the panel. I have heard most of these people speak at events or judge pitch contests or read their blogs. It’s a good mix of venture capitalists from across the country.
Noubar Afeyan – ... |
| Oct 6, 2013 | Why the Obamacare Exchanges are ripe for innovation: 5 areas VCs and startups should focus on | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The health insurance exchanges (HIXs) resulting f... |
| Oct 6, 2013 | Why the Obamacare Exchanges are ripe for innovation: 5 areas VCs and startups should focus on | The health insurance exchanges (HIXs) resulting from Obamacare are upon us, and by January 1, 2014, all Americans will be required to have health insurance. There are few markets that are mandated by law to include virtually every American ... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Mobile care coordination tool to improve patient safety raises $27M | PatientSafe Solutions received a strategic investment from strategic investment from EDBI, the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund led the round and Camden Partners, TPG Biotech, a... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Features are Superman, benefits are Spider-Man, and you need Spider-Man | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lisa Suennen is a founding partner of healthcare ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Features are Superman, benefits are Spider-Man, and you need Spider-Man | Lisa Suennen is a founding partner of healthcare investment firm Psilos Group Managers. She blogs at Venturevalkyrie.com.
I have recently spent a lot of volunteer time with early/seed stage entrepreneurs, or at least people with big visions... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Gamma Medica Closes $16M Series A Financing | Gamma Medica, Inc., a Salem, NH-based developer of solutions for early diagnosis of breast cancer, closed a $16m Series A financing.
The round was led by healthcare investment firm Psilos Group Managers, LLC.
Led by Jim Calandra, President ... |
| May 1, 2013 | Four investment opportunities in the brave new world of private insurance exchanges | Most of the conversation today is about public exchanges. Psilos predicts that large and small employers will take advantage of private exchanges to get out of the health insurance business completely. They will give employees subsidies and... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | Psilos Spells Out Hot Areas for Health Technology Investing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The water’s fine in the healthcare-and-technology market, and institutional investors should come on in. That’s the message from Psilos Group, a healthcare-focused venture fir... |
| Feb 17, 2013 | Number crunching startup wins Fast Company award by putting health first | We are very proud of SeeChange, a company that Psilos helped form and which started selling its wellness and prevention-oriented insurance products back in 2011 in the State of California and also nationally through an alliance with United ... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | SeeChange Health Raises $15M in Series C Financing | SeeChange Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of benefit design solutions, has raised $15m in Series C financing.
Backers include existing investors Psilos Group and Maverick Capital.
The company intends to use the capital to further... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Medical device/life science startups that survive the next 36 months “will be in the catbird seat” | It noted that capital commitments to US venture funds fell in the 3rd quarter of 2012 compared with the previous three months. The number of new funds increased, reducing the concentration of the new capital that was raised.
The source of t... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Reaction to the Obamacare ruling: Investors | “The forces set in motion by the act are inevitable and must be systematically addressed in any event, i.e., healthcare must be made available to all people in the country, whether or not they are employed, whether or not they are poor, whe... |
| Nov 29, 2011 | 5 companies using big data to solve healthcare problems | Loosely speaking, big data can refer to anything involving voluminous sets of data. However you define big data, its promise isn’t lost on investors, as shown by a recently announced $100 million “Big Data Fund” from Accel Partners. (The fu... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Health IT: Is the U.S. in the middle of a bubble? | “When you’re in the bubble, you don’t know you’re in the bubble,” Kurtin said.
Similarly, Lisa Suennen, co-founder of Psilos Group and also a veteran healthcare investor, is leery of a health IT bubble, but stopped short of saying we’re in ... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | SeeChange Health Raises $20M in Series B Financing | SeeChange Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of value-based health management solutions, has raised $20m in Series B financing.
Investors include new backer Maverick Capital and existing shareholder Psilos Group.
The company intends... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | MedCity News Q&A: SpineMatrix CEO Bill Christy | By Mary Vanac
COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Medical device company veteran William “Bill” Christy took the CEO’s spot at SpineMatrix Inc. in December.
SpineMatrix is the early stage company in the Akron, Ohio, area that has developed a diagnostic... |
| Nov 14, 2009 | A crucial cure for health care: Six steps to curb raging inflation | Albert Waxman, is the chief executive officer of Psilos Group, an investment firm with a particular focus on driving down costs, improving quality and aligning incentives across payers, providers and patients.
The U.S. House of Representati... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Health software company Click4Care can grow quickly. But can it grow big? | “They are a very good company and there are days when we go down into the market we wonder whether we should go past Click4Care,” said Scott Storrer, the chief executive officer at MEDecision, one of the oldest and largest companies offerin... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Endoscopic Tech nabs $11M for heart surgery tools | Medical device maker Endoscopic Technologies brought in an $11 million tranche of second-round funding from Boston Scientific, Telegraph Hill Partners and Saints Capital. The money will be used to further develop the San Ramon, Calif. compa... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | InSound raises $13 million more for hearing aids | Newark, Calif. hearing aid producer InSound Medical tacked $13 million more onto a fifth round of funding (now totaling $43 million). The tranche came from new investor Stanford Group, in addition to existing contributors, and is likely to ... |
| May 19, 2008 | OmniGuide raises $25 million for non-invasive laser surgery | OmniGuide has raised $25 million in a fifth round of financing to expand its laser surgery business. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., makes BeamPath, a flexible optical fiber used to guide CO2 laser beams in surgery.
New investor Psi... |
| The sharks of healthcare: 5 VCs that should be on ABC | I am late to the party but it’s official. I love Shark Tank. My favorite pitch so far has been the farmer with the tree guard for young trees. Johnny George’s Tree T Pee is a real product: it serves a purpose and it saves money for business... |
| Reaction to the Obamacare ruling: Investors | Everyone — almost every one — had something to say about yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the Affordable Care Act. We talked to people from all around the industry and here is what they had to say.
For more reaction... |
| Report: Health insurance industry will be ‘flipped on its head.’ | The world of health insurance is about to be turned on its head.
Even with the well-known shifts brought on by the ACA, the fundamental business model for health insurers will change dramatically, shifting largely from serving employers and... |
| Mobile care coordination tool to improve patient safety raises $27M | Mobile health device developer PatientSafe Solutions, which developed a tool to improve patient safety and avoid adverse drug events, has closed a Series C round to fund the expansion of the company to the Asia Pacific market. With the $27 ... |
| Four investment opportunities in the brave new world of private insurance exchanges | Psilos seems to have the investment philosophy that it is better to be smart than hip. You won’t find any mobile apps or corporate wellness programs in the company’s portfolio. They have made lots of money on new approaches to providing hea... |
| 5 companies using big data to solve healthcare problems | “Big data” won’t do much to improve healthcare without big analytics.
Thanks in part to billions in federal subsidies for electronic medical records (EMRs), it won’t be long before the U.S. is awash in vast, almost incomprehensible amounts ... |
| A Q&A with Lisa Suennen on her new role as a managing director with GE Ventures | Lisa Suennen, GE Ventures managing director
This week marked Lisa Suennen’s return to the venture capital grind as a managing director with corporate venture investment firm GE Ventures. Before she started her business consultancy, Venture ... |
| Health software company Click4Care can grow quickly. But can it grow big? | POWELL, Ohio — Click4Care wants to translate fast growth into big growth.
The Columbus-area technology company has quickly built a strong reputation around its software that manages patient care and automates management requirements by heal... |
| Health IT: Is the U.S. in the middle of a bubble? | With stories earlier this year of outrageous valuations surrounding information technology companies like Groupon and Facebook, there’s been plenty of hand-wringing about whether overzealous investors have created a “tech bubble.”
So it’s o... |
| Number crunching startup wins Fast Company award by putting health first | It’s awards season, as anyone who watched the Grammys or Golden Globes and is anticipating the Oscars knows. I can imagine it is very difficult for these award show judges to pick out who is “the best” when looking at music or actors. It is... |
| Medical device/life science startups that survive the next 36 months “will be in the catbird seat” | A survey of 31 San Francisco venture capitalists’s outlook for the next six to 18 months has found confidence up slightly in the third quarter of the year, but not for life science and healthcare investing where the landscape will get more ... |