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| Dec 15, 2017 | PULSE@MassChallenge picks 32 for digital health cohort | Although it would seem like the priorities of say, a pharma company and a hospital would differ, Nick Dougherty, the program director for PULSE, said in a phone interview that the champions did a good job of finding partners with shared goa... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | PULSE@MassChallenge Announces 2018 Cohort of Top Digital Health Startups | BOSTON, DEC. 14 - MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, today announced the 32 digital health startups joining the 2018 PULSE@MassChallenge cohort. Selected from more than 500 applicants from around the world, ... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo has evolved in the past year from a period tracker to include more information on ovulation and personal health insights based on the data users punch into the app, a spokeswoman for the company noted in an email. The company has also r... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | IBM links with Indiegogo, Visa, Bosch and more in $3B IoT push | IBM is today taking the wraps off its new Internet of Things headquarters in Munich — a $200 million project at over one year in the making. And to underscore its IoT push, IBM is announcing a series of related deals and partnerships with c... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Calm, cruel and connected: June’s best and worst of IoT | It seems that every day a new IoT device or means to connect existing devices is revealed. With so much energy in being devoted to tell us how, when, where, what we can connect to each other, the “why” may be getting a little blurry. So we ... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Sharks balk at Fitly’s smart plate | Promoted
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| Feb 5, 2016 | Sweat sensors, clinical wearables part of Philly accelerator’s second class | Here is a summary of the participants:
Grand Round Table emails primary care providers a daily summary about their scheduled patient follow-ups so they can better manage high-risk patients, keeping them out of the hospital. It also joined a... |
| Jan 30, 2016 | More bad news for Theranos: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | And here are some MedCity News stories that resonated with our readers this week:
1. At HIMSS16, the booth babe just won’t go away
Yep, some vendors still apparently think that filling their displays with attractive women will result in inc... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Local startup SmartPlate gets a spot on 'Shark Tank' |
Back in May we told you about SmartPlate, the locally designed dinner plate that detects what you’re eating and how many calories its worth. The device, created by Philadelphia technology startup Fitly, launched with a successful Kickstart... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | Will Shark Tank investors like what consumer wellness startup Fitly serves up? | Fitly took part in a couple of health tech accelerators in recent years including DreamIt Health and the University City Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator.
In another development with the business, Ortiz said it had secured a deal... |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Can high-tech plates and silverware help patients manage disease? | The lowly plate and humble utensil are getting high-tech upgrades to become tools for people watching their weight or managing diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer.
There are dishes that could send you smartphone alerts remind... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Philadelphia Health IT firm adds Olympic medalist to its team |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee,a former track and field star, will serve as head of wellness and become a co-founder of Fitly, where she will focus specifically on the growth and development of the company’s newest product called the SmartPlate.
The... |
| Sep 23, 2015 | Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee joins digital health startup Fitly’s management team | “We didn’t just want an endorser,” said co-founder and CEO Anthony Ortiz. “This worked out perfectly for us because the incentives are so well aligned. Jackie can open up doors for us. If we were to knock on some doors, they may open the do... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | This Philly startup raised $100K for a plate that can count calories |
Anthony Ortiz’s healthy meal delivery service — Fitly — was doing fine.
It wasn’t a huge success but it wasn’t an utter failure, either. He’ll tell you as much.
“It wasn’t great,” said the DreamIt Health grad. “It was good. It was OK.”
Eve... |
| May 5, 2015 | “SmartPlate” uses sensors to ID nutritional content, manage portions | The company, which is part of the Philadelphia Digital Health Accelerator at the University City Science Center and graduated from DreamIt Health accelerator, is taking pre-orders of the plate on its Kickstarter page and plans to ship them ... |
| May 5, 2015 | This Smart Plate Tells You How Many Calories You're Eating—And Whether You're Eating Too Fast |
Put your dinner on a new Wi-Fi connected SmartPlate, and it will tell you not only what you’re eating, how many calories are involved, which nutrients, and even whether you’re chewing too fast. All the data feeds into an app that tracks yo... |
| More bad news for Theranos: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | The Zika virus has unquestionably dominated headlines in the world of healthcare this week – as pregnant women the world over are considering their risk of having a child with microcephaly.
But some of the week’s broader healthcare business... |
| Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee joins digital health startup Fitly’s management team | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, an Olympian and three-time gold medal winner for track and field, has joined digital health startup Fitly, as an investor, co-founder and the head of wellness.
Its flagship product is the SmartPlate, which uses sensors... |
| “SmartPlate” uses sensors to ID nutritional content, manage portions | SmartPlate2 from Fitly on Vimeo.
About one year after it launched a delivery service for healthy meal ingredients, Philadelphia-based startup, Fitly has unveiled a “SmartPlate” designed to help users manage portion control and stay within c... |
| Sweat sensors, clinical wearables part of Philly accelerator’s second class | There’s definitely a stronger emphasis on clinical facing companies in the Philadelphia-based University City Science Center Digital Health Accelerator’s second batch of startups. Between companies like Invis Alert Solutions with a wearable... |
| PULSE@MassChallenge picks 32 for digital health cohort | Boston skyline along the Harborwalk
Building on the strong response to its inaugural digital health cohort this year, PULSE@MassChallenge expanded on the theme of champions such as hospitals, insurance, technology and pharma companies picki... |
| Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo app by OWHealth
Menstrual cycle trackers tend to get mixed reviews about their accuracy but that hasn’t had much impact on the popularity of these women’s health apps. Claiming it has reached a milestone of 10 million monthly active use... |
| Will Shark Tank investors like what consumer wellness startup Fitly serves up? | Fitly, a Philadelphia-based consumer wellness startup, is appearing on ABC’s Shark Tank TV show next month. Healthcare startups have had a mixed performance on the program, so it will be interesting to see how the startup’s smart plate to p... |
| Sharks balk at Fitly’s smart plate | Fitly walked away empty-handed from its Shark Tank appearance in which it sought to sell the sharks on the merits of a plate that it claims can assess the nutritional content of the food placed on it with embedded sensors and cameras and a ... |