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| Oct 21, 2022 | Meet Vasudev Bailey, Senior Partner at ARTIS Ventures | ARTIS invests in what it calls the TechBio space, where technology meets healthcare
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | At Health 2.0 panel, VCs agree that digital health is in a bubble | The event was notable for another reason, an all-woman panel in an industry where women make up only around 8 percent of top VC firm partners.
Canaan Partners’ Wende Hutton, who has been a venture capitalist focused on the healthcare indust... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | What’s driving the big data revolution in healthcare — and what’s holding it back | A sentiment generally accepted across the board was that none of the entrepreneurs’ companies could exist in their current form, 10 or even five years ago. As one of the panelists noted, 90 percent of the world’s data was generated over the... |
| Sep 16, 2018 | At Health 2.0, providers say lack of trust is major barrier in driving patient-centered innovation | L to R: Megan Mahoney, Blix Rice, Charles Saunders, Anne Wellington, Shahid Shah
The wealth of data now being produced and collected about patients has often been held up as the holy grail to push forward innovation within the healthcare sy... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Medication Adherence Tech: A dynamic and crowded market, but where are the winners in the space? (Part 1 of 2) | About the Authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, previously served as a Medical D... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Health 2.0: At $4.75B, digital health funding was up, not down, in 2015 | Health 2.0's digital health funding numbers for 2015 are out and they're right in the middle of totals released so far, at $4.75 billion. Rock Health had pinned the number at $4.3 billion and both CB Insights and StartUp Health had pegged i... |
| Dec 13, 2015 | Meet 5 of Japan’s most prominent health care startups: Symax, Clintal, and more | Health2.0, started in California in 2007, is the global conference introducing the latest technologies and advanced solutions in the medical and health sector. The conference washeld in Japan for the first time over a two-day period of Nove... |
| Nov 15, 2015 | Inside the SXSW of Japan: Myojo Waraku | (Via The Bridge) – Myojo Waraku is an annual festival taking place in Japan’s western city of Fukuoka with a flavor of America’s South by South West (SXSW) festival, showcasing prominent startups and awesome digital media and music performe... |
| Oct 13, 2015 | 6 things that make digital health investors go hmmm | But with depression as a potential cause of some chronic conditions and barrier to managing them, some see technology from supplementing underserved areas through telemedicine to improving care coordination, and providing peer support as a ... |
| Oct 3, 2015 | Walgreens launching mobile telemedicine on app: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | In the next month Walgreens will launch a new telemedicine component for its mobile application, said Adam Pelligrini, vice president of digital health at Walgreens, at this week’s Transforming Medicine: Evidence-driven Mhealth conference a... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Health 2.0’s fight with CB Insights and what it reveals about digital health investment data | We have a broad view of digital health and believe that the current trend is a cross-pollination of technology and data with all aspects of health and healthcare. StartUp Health InsightsTM tracks companies that enable health, wellness and t... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | Health 2.0: $2.2B in digital health funding so far this year | In one more take on the first half of 2015 funding, Health 2.0 Market Intelligence has funding for the half at $2.2 billion, compared to $2.9 billion at the half-year mark last year. They tracked 2014's total funding at $4.6 billion.
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| Jun 9, 2015 | 7 awesome projects from this year’s National Day of Civic Hacking | June 6 was the National Day of Civic Hacking, a nationwide initiative that encourages anyone to build solutions for their communities. Developers, mayors, government staffers, students and civic-minded citizens gathered in spaces across the... |
| May 6, 2015 | Barcelona Tech & Startup Events and Conferences Guide For Summer 2015 | Spring has sprung and summer is close behind. Barcelona entrepreneurs have about 12 weeks to hustle and close deals before Spain grinds to a halt for summer holidays. However, in between now and August, there are a few dozen opportunities t... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence | Both Target, which made headlines recently with its collaboration with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, and Walmart will be exploring technological tools to enhance efforts, which could range from partnerships and acquisitions on t... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Medisafe Grabs First Prize at Health 2.0’s Traction Startup Championship Competition | MediSafe, a mobile health medication management platform connecting patients and health providers has won first prize in this year’s Traction: Health 2.0’s Startup Championship.The top-rated and cloud-synced platform allows doctors to incre... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | MediSafe grabs top honors at Health 2.0 for mobile medication adherence tool | Close to 100 companies applied to this competition, and MediSafe showcased its traction in front of industry leading investors to win in the consumer-facing track.
MediSafe offers its platform on Android, including the Android smartwatch, a... |
| Sep 23, 2014 | Best ideas from this week’s Health 2.0 event via Twitter | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Miami-Based Symptify to Showcase at Health 2.0 | South Florida's tech scene is starting to get noticed, especially when it comes to medical and health startups. Miami-based startup Symptify announced today that it has been invited to present at the prestigious 2014 Health 2.0 Annual Confe... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | A medication management app seeks to balance transparency and privacy | A package of alerts is designed to draw attention to potential problems. The app warns users of potential problems when taking certain medications together, using services from the National Library of Medicine. But the company also wants to... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | When Wearable Health Trackers Meet Your Doctor | Ben Heubl Contributor
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Meet Breezometer, Israel’s Air Quality Startup
New Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air
Editor’s note: Ben Maximilian Heubl, is a tech blogger, a data journalist (data journ... |
| Jun 13, 2014 | This Entrepreneur Built An Asthma Monitor To Save Lives—Just Not His Own | Like many entrepreneurs, Chris Stiffler had an idea for a world-changing product rooted in his own experience. In his case, the experience was a serious asthma attack. The product was Wheezy, a wearable device designed to help asthmatics mo... |
| Jun 3, 2014 | New contest aims to understand the entire patient: health + money + family + work | The challenge is to develop a solution that:
Prompts patients to think about one or more of the factors listed above, and understand how it impacts their health
Explains the reasons for discussing these barriers with providers, in a way tha... |
| May 30, 2014 | Additive Analytics Launches New Tools To Help Patients Compare Surgery Costs | TechCrunch first met Additive Analytics when the health data startup launched Maternity Compare, a site that helps parents find trustworthy obstetricians. Now Additive Analytics’ founder Laura Hamilton has created two new products to help p... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | MDs, AT&T alum look to test the market for virtual concierge care in California via crowdfunding | With 10 days to go, the startup is nearing its $25,000 fundraising goal. Two funders have contributed $1,000 for a perk that provides PlushCare services for to up to 15 employees, and more than 40 have claimed perks for individual or family... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | More serial investors, early-stage deals push digital health funding to nearly $2B in 2013 | Rock Health’s analysis attributes funding growth this year to more early-stage deals: More than half of deals by volume were seed or Series A rounds, compared to 39 percent last year.
So-called “dabblers” – venture firms or notable angel in... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Blueprint Health inaugural class: Where are they now? | 5 O’Clock Records:
Then: Matt Cottrell founded the company to help physician practices make money from patient record requests. This was a service provided by another company he founded in the area of litigation support called Champion Reco... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | Betting on Google Glass for surgeons pays off big time for Austin startup | “Doctors are happy because they are not wasting time running around, nurses are happy because they’re not waiting on their doctors, patients are getting a better, faster, safer experience,” he said.
Samani said that another pilot project wi... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (NY Tech Meetup, VentureOutNY Brazilian, AD Think, Investor Feedback Forum, Real Estate Tech, Tech Tuesdays) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Digital Health Meets The Voice: Startup Contest Puts VCs On Stage | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Morgenthaler Ventures partner Rebecca Lynn organized the first “DC to VC” startup and healthcare policy showcase in 2010, there weren’t any competitions, challenges, or h... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Inside Bitcoins, 500 Startups DemoDay, Dating Disrupted, Voting Hackathon, Civic Hack Night, Young Tech Summer) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Real Estate Tech 2013, Ed Tech Summit, Hardwired, Wearable Tech Expo, CommonBond Summer Social, Decoded Fashion, NY Gaming, NY Video) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (ALOHA To Summer!, CE Week, Spotify Music Hackathon, Alley Girls, Social Media Day, Brooklyn Tech, Startup Grind, Projective Space Demo Day) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Games for Change, Mayoral Candidates Forum, Hacker Olympics, Summer Soiree, Summer Art Design Cruise) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | HHS Announces 3 Finalists in The Crowds Care 4 Cancer Challenge | HHS announces finalists in Crowds Care 4 Cancer Challenge today at Health DataPalooza IV, the first challenge for post-treatment cancer care.
There is a significant need for innovative tools to help survivors manage their transition from sp... |
| May 20, 2013 | Everhealthier Women: Penn Nursing prof wins $85K federal mobile app challenge | Make cancer prevention as simple as following a checklist on a mobile app.
That was the idea behind Everhealthier Women, an app built by a team led by a Penn Nursing School professor that won the $85,000 first prize in a women’s cancer prev... |
| May 3, 2013 | Health IT CEO: Physicians shouldn’t wait to be reimbursed before offering telehealth | “We really need physicians and hospitals to say — ‘I won’t wait to be reimbursed because these technologies are so useful,'” Shah said. “Asking people to come in for their care is just as silly as asking people to come to a bookstore to buy... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (NY Tech Day, ERA Demo Day, Disrupt Hackathon, #ArtsTech, Brooklyn Tech Meetup, TechDrinkup, BigApps) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Vote for me! What’s making 3 patient portal designs stand out in NY eHealth design challenge? | Functionality goes a long way with would-be users and is the most prominent characteristic the leaders have in common. Mana Health’s submission includes a colorful dashboard with big graphics that display users’ basic information like heart... |
| Apr 10, 2013 | Backed By Twilio, SV Angel & 500 Startups, HealthSouk Brings Affordable Dental Care To California | According to a report published by the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging last year, more than 130 million Americans are living without dental insurance. That means more Americans have smartphones than dental coverage. (And the... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Shorty Awards, NYU Startup Week, Big Apple Smackdown, NY Tech Meetup, PSFK, British Invasion, LeanUX, Investor Feedback Forum, Assembled Food) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Swarm of Applicants Vying for New York City’s Health Tech Grants | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Supporters of New York City’s rising health IT sector are poring over scores of applications this week for $100,000 city grants to help young companies test-drive their health... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools | Update below. This month, New York City is launching at least two new programs to help digital health startups provide solutions for the emerging technology gaps the healthcare industry is experiencing as they comply with provisions of the ... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Startup News: Warby Parker Ate Way Too Much Salad and Sold a Lot of Monocles This Year | Katie Couric in Warby Parker. (Photo: Facebook.com)
Rose-Colored Glasses Warby Parker just released its annual report for 2012, and it’s a pretty fun slideshow to click through. The glasses empire now has 113 full-time employes and 42 part-... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | Record your personal health story | “Medical records are often incomprehensible to the layperson,” says Nhumi Co-Founder André Elisseeff, PhD. “With Healthcorpus.com, individuals can easily manage their personal health status, stay current on pertinent issues and share inform... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact | At the end of the Health 2.0 Conference earlier this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya to discuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excited by the innovation demonstrated at Health 2.0. It tur... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Triumph Over Pain Wins Health 2.0 Austin Codeo | By SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News
An application that helps chronic pain sufferers manage pain through increasing activity won the Health 2.0 Austin Codeo Sunday, October 21st at the Capital Factory.
Triumph Over Pain was one ... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Meet The Three Most Fund-able Health Companies From The DC To VC Showcase | Today, Morgenthaler Ventures and Health 2.0 concluded its “DC to VC” startup showcase, a nationwide contest that aims to find the most promising and “fund-able” young businesses in health IT looking for funding. From hundreds of applicants,... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Device for EMTs to transmit patient information from ambulances grabs venture prize | Based on its own research interviewing EMTs and healthcare providers across the country, the Walnut Creek, California company concluded that about half of vital patient data is currently lost. And that data could be critical for the treatme... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines | Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where a photo-... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | EveryMove launches service to earn rewards for running, biking and walking the dog | A flat belly or a healthy lifestyle aren’t the only incentives for exercise anymore. A Seattle startup is now rewarding users with money for completing tasks like walking, jogging and cycling. Heck, you can even earn rewards for mowing the ... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! | I’m at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Conferences of 2006-07. The second coming of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reilly and his company, was entering its peak around 2006. If I ever ... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | Morgenthaler Names Finalists for Health IT Pitch Fest; We've Got the Graphics & Videos | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For three years running, Menlo Park, CA-based Morgenthaler Ventures has organized a fall event called DC to VC, with a focus on the conditions for health IT innovation in an e... |
| May 18, 2012 | Health 2.0 trends: depression as recovery obstacle, mobile health’s evolution | The role of depression in prolonging patients’ recoveries, the evolution of the mobile health market and the increased willingness of insurance companies to work with startups were among the most interesting trends to emerge from the Health... |
| May 14, 2012 | mHealth Kickstarter: Funding Healthcare Innovation in the Age of Start-Ups, Incubators and Crowdfunding | Event: mHealth Kickstarter: Funding Healthcare Innovation in the age of Start-Ups, Incubators and Crowdfunding
Location: Fordham Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023
Date:Thursday, May 24, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM (ET)
In conjunction wit... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | Government Poised To Provide A Huge Boost To Healthtech Startups | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcar... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | What to watch for (and what to know) about TEDMED 2012 | Tuesday begins version 1 of “TEDMED: Davos edition” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It will wrap up by Friday and roughly 1,500 people (myself included) will have their first taste of the new TEDMED. Here’s what to know and consid... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | StartUp Health welcomes first 10 entrepreneurs to business master class | Basis is developing a heart monitor that is worn like a watch. It measures heart rate as well as activity and temperature. Users can win points and praise for increased activity.
“Somewhere between health care and entertainment lies ideal w... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | StartUp Health to launch inaugural class next month, gets AT&T backing | According to its website, StartUp Health works closely with accelerators and incubators, and welcomes graduates from Blueprint Health, Healthbox, Rock Health, TechStars, DreamIt Ventures, YCombinator, among others. The goal of the 10-year i... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | NYC TechStars Member Blueprint Health Announces Its First Class Of Startups | NYC-based Blueprint Health, a health-focused member of the TechStars Network, is announcing its inaugural class of startups today. The Winter program, which begins on January 9th, will be taking place in a 12,000 square foot loft in SoHo th... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Using dynamics from gaming to improve people’s health | Games lure people to make visits at specific
times… can they help patients keep medical
appointments?
By Sarah Mahoney
This past October I attended the Health 2.0 conference, where there was a lot of discussion on the use of niche social ne... |
| Oct 9, 2011 | Health 2.0: Innovators, Opportunists & Delusionals | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a Patient Relationship Management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice ... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | With Funding From Floodgate And More, WellnessFX Launches A Next-Gen WebMD | Launching this week at Health 2.0 is a startup called, WellnessFX, which offers a simple value proposition: It wants to help average people take charge of their health. As the medical industry expands daily and more and more health and well... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Health 2.0 Code-a-thon sends IT innovators scrambling | Comply Reply is an app for medication compliance. It is a suite of applications, intended to extend care beyond the office wall. The app for docs is called comply and the patient app is called reply. The vision is that this can be tailored ... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Basis launches heart rate monitor and health tracker | Basis Science hopes to get us all in better shape. It will do so with its $199 heart and health monitor that you can strap around your wrist. The company is revealing today the design of its B1 Basis Band that will launch later this year.
T... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Basis Reveals An Awesome New Affordable Heart And Health Tracker You Can Wear On Your Wrist | After raising $9 million in venture funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Doll Capital Management earlier this year, Basis Science has been able to continue their year-long research and design development of a new affordable heart and h... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Google Health: Why It’s Ending & What It Means | Google’s quest to organize the world’s information will no longer include one of society’s most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever and ... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Healthcare Reform is a Cloud: Interview with Matthew Holt & Richard MacManus | It’s a sunny afternoon in San Francisco and health care is in the air. I’m sitting at the the Peet’s in the SF Ferry Building eating a vegan ginger cookie and waiting for Matthew Holt, founder of The Health Care Blog and the leader of Healt... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Fresh from Health 2.0: two dozen of the most innovative new health apps | The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0” conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0” conferences, ... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Will Health 2.0 startups usher in consumer-driven healthcare? | With the Health 2.0 conference taking place in San Francisco this week and President Obama’s bruised but not yet beaten healthcare reform bill still awaiting its fate on Capitol Hill, it’s a good time to look at how tech startups in the hea... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Bloomberg Subscribers Get Access to Sermo Physician Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It seems that Sermo, the exclusive online community for physicians, is finding new ways to monetize its population of members almost as quickly as that population is growing.
... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Health 2.0 and The New Economics of Aggregation | Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations, considers Health 2.0 to be the new economics of aggregation – both information and people.
Speaking to a standing-room-only audience at the Health 2... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries | If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Six Health 2.0 firms reinvent doctor-patient ties | (UPDATED: Added screenshots and a link to video of the Myca patient-record interface.)
The just-concluded Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego showcased some 30-odd startups and Web sites — with dozens more in the audience — all intent on usi... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Health 2.0 Conference Review | Editor’s note: this week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego, CA. The following is a review of the event, by Bill Allman from HealthCentral.com.
Anyone who struggles with healthcare in America and
thats probably just about ev... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Google Health is here — or is it? | (UPDATED: See below.)
Well, the WSJ says so in this somewhat breathless report that states Google will announce its long-awaited personal health-record service today.
My first thought was that the announcement was timed to get Google on the... |
| Oct 14, 2007 | The return of Adam Bosworth | The former head of Google’s health initiative, who resigned abruptly while on vacation last month, has finally resurfaced, according to his blog. It’s not exactly the first sighting of Bosworth since his departure from Google — I was told h... |
| More serial investors, early-stage deals push digital health funding to nearly $2B in 2013 | Digital health funding didn’t grow quite as much in 2013 as it did in 2012, but even so, Rock Health‘s calculations predict that funding for the sector will top venture funding for medical devices next year.
Investors pumped $1.97 billion i... |
| StartUp Health welcomes first 10 entrepreneurs to business master class | On Monday night, health entrepreneurs, investors and industry insiders celebrated a new class of “healthcare transformers” as well as the industry’s complete and official arrival in the digital world of SXSW.
StartUp Health and Health 2.0 h... |
| Health 2.0 Code-a-thon sends IT innovators scrambling | I spent the much of the weekend at a special event preceding this year’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco that started last night. This was the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon. I made a short presentation on Saturday and go... |
| New contest aims to understand the entire patient: health + money + family + work | When the problem is noncompliance, the solution often has nothing to do with pills. Patients often don’t follow treatment plans because they are taking care of someone else or they don’t have a ride to the doctor’s office or they don’t have... |
| MDs, AT&T alum look to test the market for virtual concierge care in California via crowdfunding | When it comes to crowdfunding in healthcare, consumer-facing devices have generally had the most success in the way of raising a lot of money, often for prototypes and testing. But telemedicine startup PlushCare’s Indiegogo campaign illustr... |
| Device for EMTs to transmit patient information from ambulances grabs venture prize | A company providing emergency medical technicians with an electronic patient care record system to transmit valuable patient data to hospitals that can lost between the pickup and drop off won the Series A award in a venture competition.
Th... |
| Blueprint Health inaugural class: Where are they now? | It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly two years since it picked its inaugural class of entrepreneurs to respond to trends in healthcare. Now the health IT accelerator in New York Blueprint Health is gearing up for class number five.
Lo... |
| Health 2.0’s fight with CB Insights and what it reveals about digital health investment data | A CB Insights report analyzing five years of digital health investments set off an almighty din on Twitter last week when Matthew Holt, the co-chairman of Health 2.0, which also publishes digital health analysis, took issue with CB Insights... |
| Betting on Google Glass for surgeons pays off big time for Austin startup | Kyle Samani’s Pristine.io is growing at a fast pace. Samani presented at DEMO earlier this month and won a DEMO God award. The company has raised $350,000 so far and is looking for another $100,000. One pilot project of the Glass software f... |
| At Health 2.0, providers say lack of trust is major barrier in driving patient-centered innovation | L to R: Megan Mahoney, Blix Rice, Charles Saunders, Anne Wellington, Shahid Shah
The wealth of data now being produced and collected about patients has often been held up as the holy grail to push forward innovation within the healthcare sy... |
| Best ideas from this week’s Health 2.0 event via Twitter | There’s been lots of activity, both online and in person here in Silicon Valley, at Health 2.0. Here’s a small snapshot of what’s being discussed in digital health, via Twitter.
RT @health2con: Adverse Child Experiences (ie, divorce) also l... |
| MediSafe grabs top honors at Health 2.0 for mobile medication adherence tool | Israeli startup MediSafe took top honors at this year’s Health 2.0 Startup Champions, impressing Silicon Valley with its mobile-based platform and reminder system to address medication adherence, the $290 billion problem that is increasingl... |
| 6 things that make digital health investors go hmmm | In the past few weeks of attending digital health conferences, I’ve picked up on a few themes based on investment priorities identified by some venture capitalists and others offering startups advice. But even when investors are bullish, qu... |
| A medication management app seeks to balance transparency and privacy | A healthcare IT entrepreneur who has previously worked for the Department of Defense has developed a sophisticated medication management app to make it easier for people to avoid adverse drug interactions. Michael Ramirez, the CEO and co-fo... |
| At Health 2.0 panel, VCs agree that digital health is in a bubble | Digital health investing – at least in the U.S. – is in a bubble.
That was the main takeaway from a panel at the annual Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, featuring speakers from Canaan Partners, GE Ventures and Sanofi Ventures, the VC a... |
| Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence | Retail giants Walmart and Target, and likely others, will continue their steady march into the healthcare setting, sensing an opportunity to leverage their customers with a mix of technology that could be a boon to the digital health space.... |
| Vote for me! What’s making 3 patient portal designs stand out in NY eHealth design challenge? | As part of an effort to develop a user friendly interface for a patient portal for the its 19.5 million residents to access their health records, the New York eHealth Collaborative with Health 2.0 is allowing the public to vote on 14 submis... |
| NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools | Update below. This month, New York City is launching at least two new programs to help digital health startups provide solutions for the emerging technology gaps the healthcare industry is experiencing as they comply with provisions of the ... |
| Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| What’s driving the big data revolution in healthcare — and what’s holding it back | What are the big issues in big data?
The question of what is driving, directing and delaying the use of big data technology in healthcare was the subject of a panel at the Health 2.0 Conference, featuring a range of startups directed at pro... |
| StartUp Health to launch inaugural class next month, gets AT&T backing | AT&T has announced it will back five companies selected for StartUp Health‘s classes that are scheduled to begin next month.
The initiative, billed as an academy of health and wellness entrepreneurs, is launching the first of four class... |
