Date | Title | Description |
12.07.2016 | HealthTap makes a bigger push into continuing studies for doctors | HealthTap, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telehealth startup that says 102,000 doctors now use its platform to connect with patients, has officially snapped up DocPhin, whose app made it easier for doctors to find and read medical res... |
14.03.2016 | HealthTap quietly acquires physician app startup Docphin | Palo Alto-based health tech company HealthTap has quietly acquired Docphin, a startup that makes it easier for physicians to find and read medical research, for an undisclosed sum. Docphin was a member of Rock Health's second accelerator cl... |
03.06.2014 | Retro Sparkle: play this Candy Crush-esque mobile game | Match three shapes a row in three seconds and you get three more seconds to play again.
That’s the point of Retro Sparkle, the Candy Crush-esque game from South Philly-based developer Kotaro Fujita. Download for free for iOS
The game has it... |
12.11.2013 | BarCamp Philly 6: lessons from the annual unconference | Philadelphia’s civic hacking scene is one that can stand on its own now.
That was one of the lessons learned at BarCamp Philly, the sixth annual wide-ranging unconference that invites anyone to speak about just about anything. The conferenc... |
12.03.2013 | Three East Coast startups move to final round in health division at SxSW accelerator | Careport allows a nurse at a hospital to enter a patient’s insurance information and then search for a facility. When she finds one that fits the right criteria, she can make a bed reservation immediately.
Hu and her co-founder Gretchen Ful... |
06.02.2013 | 6 innovations with the potential to make doctors’ offices more efficient | Rapid point-of-care tests, like this one for pink eye. Rather than sending specimen samples to a lab and waiting for results, doctors with access to point-of-care tests may be able to save time and cut down on unnecessarily prescribed antib... |
20.09.2012 | StartUp Health Talks New Class of Healthcare Transformers w/ Techcrunch | New York-based StartUp Health Academy announced its newest class of “Healthcare Transformers” selected for its growing national academy for health and wellness entrepreneurship covering a broad spectrum of issues, from telehealth and physic... |
19.09.2012 | Startup Health Announces Second Class Of Healthcare Transformers [TCTV] | Startup Health first announced Round One of its startup academy roster in March. There were ten different companies, ranging from a device that made it possible to conduct high-risk pregnancy at home to an online service that keeps all your... |
19.09.2012 | 3 RockHealth and 1 Blueprint grad, NBC’s chief medical editor join StartUp Health’s new class | Here’s a rundown of the most recently selected participants:
Dave Chase (@chasedave) and Bassam Saliba, Avado Health: Chase founded Microsoft’s healthcare business and is a serial entrepreneur. Bassam is a serial technology entrepreneur. To... |
12.09.2012 | Get your ‘No Sleep in Hustle’ Cloudmine tees from Startup Threads [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
19.06.2012 | Rock Health Debuts Second Class, Sends Incoming Batch To Work At Harvard Medical School | At TechCrunch Disrupt in May, ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi addressed an important question: Considering healthcare is such a hot-button issue right now, why is the healthcare space so underrepresented among startups? Part of the reason, the Zo... |
11.05.2012 | Docphin’s Dashboard For Doctors Expands Nationwide | Docphin, a medical news and research service which we once described as a “Bloomberg for doctors,” has been growing quickly since its beta launch in November. Since then, the startup was selected to participate in Rock Health’s incubator an... |
01.02.2012 | What makes these Philly entrepreneurs successful? [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
20.01.2012 | Searchable medical research platform from Docphin will become a mobile app | The company announced at the 2012 Health Innovation Summit that its iPhone app will launch soon, with an iPad app coming later. Like the online dashboard, the app will primarily target physicians that are members of academic institutions th... |
16.12.2011 | Healthtech Accelerator Rock Health Peels Back The Curtain On Its Second Batch Of Startups | As Dave Chase wrote earlier this year, the healthtech space is heating up, and a lot of serial entrepreneurs with consumer web experience are turning their focus to fixing some of the big problems inherent in the legacy health systems we ha... |
28.11.2011 | IMPACT, Philly Tech Meetup and BizTech [Event Highlights] | We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Philadelphia. And to all of those that got up early (or stayed up late) for Black Friday, we hope you got the gadget you were after.
Before we get to the events, we have a present for you. Use the c... |
14.11.2011 | Docphin Launches A “Bloomberg For Doctors” | Today, Docphin is launching a new Web service the company likens to a “Bloomberg for Doctors.” The site aims to help physicians organize, bookmark, read and track medical news and research from a number of sources, all within a single dashb... |
14.11.2011 | Docphin brings online dashboard for docs, launches Beta | Docphin's online solution for doctors to expand into 2012, actively looking for investors
Docphin, a new online platform for working physicians to personalize their news and research, launched into public Beta on Monday.
Docphin has been ca... |
- | 6 innovations with the potential to make doctors’ offices more efficient | Hospitals aren’t the only ones under pressure to become more efficient in how they deliver care.
Physician offices, too, are faced with the challenge of improving care outcomes and cost efficiency while keeping up with technological changes... |
- | Three East Coast startups move to final round in health division at SxSW accelerator | Three West Coast investors picked three East Coast healthcare startups to move on to the final round of the SxSW health accelerator in Austin on Monday.
NeuroTrack, Docphin and Careport Health beat out five other healthcare startups. It was... |
- | 3 RockHealth and 1 Blueprint grad, NBC’s chief medical editor join StartUp Health’s new class | StartUp Health is bringing in 12 new “healthcare transformers” to join its academy for health and wellness entrepreneurship — some of them with team members who have already made a name for themselves in the health tech industry.
StartUp He... |
- | Searchable medical research platform from Docphin will become a mobile app | Digital health incubator Rock Health is hosting the 2012 Health Innovation Summit this week in San Francisco. In a series of posts, I’ll be profiling some of the interesting new health companies represented at the summit. You can browse all... |