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| Jun 14, 2017 | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Although Baker comes from a health administration background as a former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, his presence at the event marking the end of the six-month program is not the kind of recognition most healthcare accelerators are able to must... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | PULSE@MassChallenge Awards $200,000 to Top Digital Health Startups | BOSTON, JUNE 13, 2017 MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, tonight awarded shares of $200,000 in zero-equity prizes to three digital health startups from the inaugural PULSE @MassChallenge cohort. More than 60... |
| Dec 13, 2016 | Meet 31 digital health startups chosen by new digital health accelerator | The program participants were whittled down from a pool of 439 applicants responding to pitches from accelerator partners articulating their needs. In some cases, the partners are teaming up to support pilot programs. Nick Dougherty, PULSE ... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Precision medicine, meet precision delivery | At the Boston Children’s Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit in November, I once again found myself enthralled by the potential of this approach. One panel session – The Future of Pediatric Precision Medicine – illuminated the facto... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | How high-performing care teams can work smarter, not harder – and deliver better care | We hear this “overloaded” theme again and again in our work with clinicians, patients and their caregivers. As an organization our mission is to help simplify complex care for everyone involved. Successful team-based care requires not just ... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | How care coordination records enable clinical interoperability | There has never been more urgency for healthcare organizations to pursue new models of care and address the unsustainable costs of the US healthcare system.
Team-based care coordination programs are growing in scope and number across the co... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | It’s time to make population health data actionable | Right Player, Right Place, Right Time
Another challenge we see with the emergence of big data in healthcare is the inability to get data into the right hands. For example, we see all the time that provider organizations are given a claims d... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Health IT biz to improve care coordination of complex patients raises new capital for engineering, staff | “It is challenging to manage an acute event or multiple chronic conditions but it becomes very complex when it is in concert with a mental health condition, unmet social needs, or functional limitations effecting daily living. These high-ne... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | ACT.md Raises $8.4M Series A Funding | ACT.md, a Boston, MA-based provider of a team-based care coordination platform for the management of complex patients, raised $8.4M Series A funding.
The round was led by Rose Park Advisors.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerat... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | New Money: These Local Companies Raised Millions This Week | We rounded up all the funding deals out of Boston tech companies this week. As more news comes out, this post will be updated.
Friday, July 24
Voxel8 (Somerville)
Deal: $12 million Series A
Investors: Braemar Energy Ventures and ARCH Ventur... |
| May 7, 2015 | Disruptive innovation in healthcare: How can it happen? | The Four Characteristics of Disruptive Healthcare IT Solutions
This week I was in the home of the father of disruptive innovation, Professor Clayton Christensen. At ACT.md we’re fortunate to have unique access to Professor Christensen as an... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Care for the Caregiver | “Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”
– Tia Walker
In our work with care teams supporting the most complex patients, the role of the caregiver cannot be underestimated. Whether it’s a family member, friend o... |
| Mar 18, 2015 | Team-based care: The new role of the payer | I recently sat in a conference room with an executive of a major health plan located on the East Coast. He made a statement that illustrates the perspective of payers across the country: “We [as payers] are uniquely positioned to see all th... |
| Care for the Caregiver | “Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”
– Tia Walker
In our work with care teams supporting the most complex patients, the role of the caregiver cannot be underestimated. Whether it’s a family member, friend o... |
| Disruptive innovation in healthcare: How can it happen? | The Four Characteristics of Disruptive Healthcare IT Solutions
This week I was in the home of the father of disruptive innovation, Professor Clayton Christensen. At ACT.md we’re fortunate to have unique access to Professor Christensen as an... |
| HHS Startup Day hits the road to court entrepreneurs | Bruce Greenstein, the Department of Health and Human Services CTO, has embraced the work of his predecessors such as Todd Park and Susannah Fox and wants to build on what they established, particularly making the government a welcoming part... |
| Precision medicine, meet precision delivery | In my experience, few topics have provoked as much discussion in healthcare as precision medicine has of late. I believe this is a good thing for two reasons. For some patients, precision therapies hold the key to a functional, comfortable ... |
| How high-performing care teams can work smarter, not harder – and deliver better care | My father was the master of teaching me and my siblings life lessons about work, priorities, and balance. We lived on the upper foothills of Utah’s Wasatch Mountain range. Over the course of my teenage years, he skillfully tasked us with in... |
| MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Boston skyline along the Harborwalk
MassChallenge marked the end of its first digital health cohort PULSE@MassChallenge with assurances from Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the Commonwealth would back a second class of digital health ... |
| How care coordination records enable clinical interoperability | There has never been more urgency for healthcare organizations to pursue new models of care and address the unsustainable costs of the US healthcare system.
Team-based care coordination programs are growing in scope and number across the co... |
| Team-based care: The new role of the payer | I recently sat in a conference room with an executive of a major health plan located on the East Coast. He made a statement that illustrates the perspective of payers across the country: “We [as payers] are uniquely positioned to see all th... |
| Meet 31 digital health startups chosen by new digital health accelerator | Earlier this year, MassChallenge kicked off a search for startups for an inaugural digital health accelerator as part of a statewide initiative. Three months later, PULSE@MassChallenge has made its selections, a news release said. The 31 co... |
| Health IT biz to improve care coordination of complex patients raises new capital for engineering, staff | A health IT company geared to improving the quality of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions coupled with behavioral health issues or social needs has raised a fresh round of capital. Rose Park Advisors led the financing round.... |
| It’s time to make population health data actionable | From the Health Catalyst summit, some lessons learned to help make big data actionable for improved outcomes and better economics.
This past week in Salt Lake City, I spent some time at Health Catalyst’s Healthcare Analytics Summit. Why sho... |