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| Aug 11, 2026 | Hospital AI Governance Excludes Nurses Who Catch What Algorithms Miss, STAT Finds | By James Whitaker
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| Jul 24, 2026 | Ultrahuman Emerald Update Ditches Dashboards for AI-Driven Health Coaching | By Benjamin Eddie
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| Jul 23, 2026 | NVIDIA Cuts Surgical Robot Training From Hours to Minutes With Open-Source Simulator | By Brandon Fisher
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| Mar 19, 2024 | Navenio to Host Webinar on Sustainable Hospital Process Change | Featuring Susan Franks, President, and CEO of ASF Solutions LLC
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| Feb 7, 2024 | 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024 | Premium Startups 44 startups to bet your career on in 2024
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| Jan 29, 2024 | These are the 7 healthcare startups primed to IPO when the market reopens | Premium Tech These are the 7 healthcare startups primed to IPO when the market reopens
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| Dec 14, 2023 | What is happening with all these new venture funds? | A growing number of venture firms may be uncorking champagne ahead of the New Year. Today, a handful of investment firms announced new funds: Artis Ventures, BoxGroup, Playground Global and Singular all closed on funds, while Partech said i... |
| Nov 8, 2023 | Sheryl Sandberg-Backed Cercle Launches: What Does This AI Health Tech Startup Do? | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 08 November 2023, 02:11 pm
Cercle, a groundbreaking AI health tech startup, made its debut on Wednesday, Nov. 8, revealing an impressive lineup of global partners and investors, which notably includes Meta's former ... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Augmedics snaps up $82.5M to advance spinal surgery using AR and AI | Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million. But their frequency belies the complexity and sometimes less-than-perfect outcomes of these procedure... |
| Jun 10, 2023 | This week in foodtech: Cultivated meat is still a sizzling topic | If you’re adventurous with your food, or just like to keep up with the fast-moving foodtech industry, here’s a roundup of this week’s stories and some notable news we weren’t able to cover. Bring home the bacon
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| Jun 7, 2023 | Julie Wainwright is back with a new, venture-backed startup | Julie Wainwright, founder and former CEO of the publicly traded, luxury online consignment company The RealReal, is back with a new startup.
Called Ahara, the Los Angeles-based outfit describes itself as a personalized nutrition company tha... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | See the 9-slide presentation that got General Catalyst to bet $5 million on a startup helping people with disabilities get accommodations at work | Disclo cofounders Hannah Olson and Kai Keane. Disclo This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Managing requests for disability accommodations can be a tricky and time consuming pro... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Digital Health Predictions: Uncertainty Will Trigger Innovation In 2023 | Kal Patel, MD, is CEO and cofounder of BrightInsight. He has over 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and regulated digital health. |
| Jan 20, 2023 | StartUPDATES: New Developments from Healthcare Startups | BioMEMS Diagnostics, a Michigan-based diagnostics developer, has announced the execution of a Letter of Intent that will allow the company’s biomedical microelectromechanical system to be incorporated into clinical research conducted by IUP... |
| Jan 7, 2023 | Urine luck: these CES startups want to take a closer look at your waste | You wait for years for a urine analysis company, then all of them hit their flow all at once. One of the notable trends at CES in Las Vegas this year was that the quantified-self movement is going deeper. No longer content with just measuri... |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Movano Health debuts Evie, a smart ring designed for women | Evie can measure heart rate, sleep, and respiration, along with period and ovulation tracking
The femtech space, which reached over $1 billion for the first time ever in 2021, is expected to have a market size of $22 billion by 2028. This i... |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; December 12, 2022 | Apogee Therapeutics raised $149M; Palantir renewed its partnered with the CDC; Ubie raised $19M
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The America’s Health Rankings 2022 Annual Report from the United Health Foundation found that the premature death rate increased... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; November 28, 2022 | Merck acquired Imago BioSciences; care.ai raised $27 million; HC9 Ventures launched $83M fund
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A coalition of anti-abortion medical groups and providers sued the Food and Drug Administration, challenging the agency’s decades-... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners | Photo: FS Productions/Blend Images/Getty Images |
| 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... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Don’t Bet Against The Casino: Why Even Startups In Healthcare May Have A Bright Future During A Recession | In the midst of an economic rollercoaster and funding scene for digital health that has changed dramatically and founders and investors alike are trying to read the tea leaves while the scene goes blurring by, natural questions are raised: ... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; June 5, 2022 | Homeward and Rite Aid partner; increased transparency into VA; Kaiser launches gun violence center
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The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute announced their effort to monitor the coronavir... |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; February 14, 2022 | Amazon expanded its on-demand health solution; Medable partnered with CVS; COVID deaths passed 900k
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Amazon Care, the company's on-demand healthcare solution, expanded to employees in all 50 states
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| Jan 11, 2022 | Data Security For 2022: First Assume Your Company Will Be On The Wrong End Of A Cyberattack — Then Stop Worrying | CEO of Fortanix, a data-first multicloud security company that solves cloud security and privacy using confidential computing. |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge | The past two years have underscored the long-standing but always disturbing reality that millions of Americans lack sufficient health care access. While the consequences have been particularly deadly during the pandemic, the challenges to o... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; September 27 | UnitedHealthcare makes Apple Fitness available at no cost; Devoted lands $1.2 billion!
More healthtech companies are going public, but are they measuring up? A number of 2021 healthtech companies are trading below their IPO price, with redu... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Daily funding roundup - September 24, 2021 | Devoted Health raised up to $1.2 billion; Xpansiv landed $100M; GeneEdit secured $26M
Devoted Health: Devoted Health is a Waltham, Ma.-based health insurer focused on Medicare Advantage plans. Devoted Health is raising up to $1.2 bil... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; September 13 | Beauty Pie raised $100 million; Homage landed $30M; DotCom Therapy picked up $13M
Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland Clinic is an Ohio-based medical center that combines clinical and hospital care with research and education. Anthem is teaming up ... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; August 23 | Maven Clinic raised $110M; Beckley Psytech landed $80M; Carrot Fertility secured $75M; ClosedLoop.ai
Maven Clinic: Maven Clinic is a NY- based female founded digital health company which focused on women's and family health. Maven Clinic an... |
| Aug 6, 2021 | Daily funding roundup - August 6th, 2021 | Vera Whole Health raised $50M; Sirona Medical landed $22.5M;Verifiable secured $17M
Bluecore: Bluecore an eight-year-old, New York-based startup focused on marketing tech for retailers. Bluecore, has raised $125 million in Series E funding ... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Open Text : Minimize clinical trial delays to bring life-saving therapies to market faster | Life Sciences companies want to get new, affordable and cutting-edge products to market as quickly as possible. The faster products and therapies are introduced, the faster individuals can benefit - and lives can be saved.
Clinical trials a... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | These Are The Ten Worst Performing Hedge Funds | July 22, 2021 4 min read This story originally appeared on ValueWalk
The Hedge Fund industry continues to exhibit robust performance, both in terms of return and asset flows, in 2021. According to eVestment's May 2021 Hedge Fund Asset Flows... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Digital Health Funding Blasts Off And Showcases Promise Of Platforms | Like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos’s recent space flights, digital health funding blasted off in the first half of 2021, following an already record-breaking year in 2020. In fact, per Per Rock Health’s 1H 2021 Digital Health Funding Repor... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Daily funding roundup - June 23rd, 2021 | Tvardi raised $74M, Anjuna landed $30M, Merlyn Mind secured $29M, DrChrono has picks up $12M
Incorta: Incorta is a San Mateo, Ca.-based startup that sells a data crunching service for customers to analyze corporate data spread across multip... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Here's why digital therapy startups should explore D2C models | Digital therapeutics (DTx) company Omada Health launched a new musculoskeletal (MSK) tool that uses computer vision tech to help physical therapists virtually measure a patient’s movement and range of motion, which is typically done in-pers... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Exploring the Growth of Telehealth and What it Means for the Industry | The COVID pandemic has turned a simmering trend into a roaring boil. Telehealth, which was once a small segment of a billion-dollar industry, has become commonplace and sometimes even preferred. The Meteoric Rise of Telehealth
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| Mar 22, 2021 | Daily funding roundup - March 22nd, 2020 | Flex Logix raised $55M; Side landed $150M; Komodo Health secured $220M
86 Repairs: 86 Repairs is a Chicago, Ill.-based subscription-based service that offers equipment repair and maintenance to restaurants. 86 Repairs has raised $2 million ... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | International Women’s Day 2021: Three Predictions For Women's Health | Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure is the Vice President of Business Development and Global Marketing for the Medical Device Company, IceCure Medical. |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Why AI In Health Care Can't Get Close To Patients — Yet | CEO and Co-Founder of CareSignal, the accessible Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring™platform that enables scalable virtual care. |
| Jan 9, 2021 | Bootstrapping to $80M ARR | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Click here if you want it in your inbox eve... |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Opening up real-time access to data via APIs could help streamline Covid-19 vaccination programs | We are in the middle of an unprecedented vaccination campaign rolling out across the world. The creation and mass production of several highly effective Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year is truly extraordinary. But the fight against thi... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Daily funding roundup - Dec. 4th, 2020 | Codi has raised $7M; Rubedo Life Sciences secured $12M; Everlywell landed $25M
Rheaply: Rheaply is a Chicago-based resource management company that's right now working with universities, companies, and the U.S. government to increase their ... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | How Much Impact Can A Small Federal Agency Have On Healthcare Innovation? A Lot, It Seems | In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Outliers’ hit the shelves and made famous the rule that “10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness.” Putting aside the accuracy or broad applicability of the rule, when 10,000 hours of invested time are... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | American Healthcare Will Be Fundamentally Different After The Pandemic, And Retail Is Leading The Way | Jeff Hawkins is President and CEO of Truvian Sciences, a healthcare company at the intersection of diagnostics and consumer technology. |
| Nov 13, 2020 | 6 emerging technologies in 2021 | Technology is always changing. Whether it’s delivery apps taking off because of a global pandemic or video games incorporating virtual reality (VR), technology holds an immense amount of power.
As 2020 comes to a close, many are wondering w... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | Zooming into the next phase of care delivery: 10 emerging trends in a post-COVID-19 world | |
| Oct 6, 2020 | For Patients And Health Care Providers, Interoperability Is A Win-Win | Morris Panner is CEO of Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite. |
| Aug 25, 2020 | How Covid-19 has enhanced the need for price transparency | The financial strain on Americans has been one of the largest impacts from Covid-19. Many have found it difficult to pay for certain necessities and nearly half (47%) of Americans age 18-64 are more concerned about the cost of healthcare no... |
| Aug 14, 2020 | Three Ways Covid-19 Will Fuel The Hearables Revolution | Getty |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Искусственный интеллект в патоморфологии: помощь на пути к верному диагнозу | Сегодня мы бы хотели обсудить, как алгоритмы искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) способны повысить эффективность диагностики одного из самых распространенных злокачественных заболеваний, рака предстательной железы (РПЖ). Только в США ежегодно вы... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Match without a flame: Why interoperability mandates still require operational, use-case specific platforms | With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) release of its final interoperability and information blocking rules, providers, payers and technology vendors are no longer off the hook when it comes to giving patients safe an... |
| Aug 7, 2020 | 15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right | The pandemic forced healthcare systems to the epidemic frontlines. Hospitals scrambled to protect their staff, add ICU beds, secure PPE, take care of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients, shift to virtual visits and reassign staff. The infect... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Telehealth makes me aspire to be a different kind of physician: the kind I used to be | In my nearly quarter-century as a primary care pediatrician, I have always aspired to be present and complete. I do my best to keep my eyes on the patient, to listen to every concern, to examine each child from head to toe, and to communica... |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Beyond Covid-19: 5 opportunities for startups to reshape the future healthcare landscape | The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the world as we know it, taking an unprecedented toll on health and human life. The healthcare ecosystem has quickly mobilized to mitigate the crisis – modifying care access points and modalities w... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | China and AI: What the World Can Learn and What it Should be Wary of | China. Shutterstock
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China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still leads in absolute terms, China appears to be making more rapid progress than ei... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | China and AI: What the World Can Learn and What it Should be Wary of | China. Shutterstock |
| May 27, 2020 | Phelix.ai raises $1 million seed round led by Well Health Technologies | Toronto-based Phelix.ai, a startup that develops automation tools for the health sector, has raised a $1 million seed round. The round was led by Well Health Technologies, which contributed $250,000. Other investors were not disclosed.
”Our... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | A Tale Of Two Cities In The Age Of COVID-19 | It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness.Deposit Photos |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Telehealth overpromises during the Covid-19 pandemic | “No more germy waiting rooms.” That’s the pitch from telehealth companies as we face the unknowns of Covid-19.
We haven’t yet figured out how to stop the spread of SAR-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, but telehealth services are pr... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | How robotics will define the surgical future | Promaxo is bringing imaging machines in-office, to eventually do surgical procedures in that space
On the battlefield, the breakthroughs in video imaging, robotics and artificial intelligence have enabled pilots to apply a surgical strike a... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Что такое FemTech: полный обзор экосистемы стартапов для женщин | Все говорят про FinTech, EduTech, AgroTech, но на vc.ru не нашлось ни одного упоминания об одном из самых растущих сегментов среди технологических компаний в категории Digital Health — FemTech, или Female Technologies.
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| Jan 9, 2020 | Daily funding roundup - January 9th, 2020 | Sea Star Beachwear raised $1.2M; Docket landed $1.5M; Finnomena secured $10M
Sea Star Beachwear: Sea Star Beachwear creates water-friendly espadrille made partly of neoprene. Sea Star Beachwear has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from ... |
| Sep 17, 2019 | 5 небанальных идей для инвестиций | Руководитель управления инвестиций компании «Росгосстрах Жизнь» Дмитрий Нуриахметов рассказывает о 5 индустриях, куда стоит инвестировать, если вы настроены на долгосрочную перспективу.
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| Aug 8, 2019 | Daily funding roundup - August 8th, 2019 | BEynd raised $2M; Dadi closed $5M; Opsani secures $10M; Pathstream landed $12M
BEynd: BEynd is to help companies create fierce customer loyalty through a transparent and collaborative customer on-boarding experience. BEynd has raised $2 mil... |
| Jun 8, 2019 | Longmont company’s AI tech to help kids with behavioral issues | Longmont’s Robauto is working with a Denver software startup to bring artificial intelligence-powered therapy to kids dealing with behavioral issues.
In simple terms artificial intelligence refers to a machine that can think for itself quic... |
| May 16, 2019 | Daily funding roundup - May 16th, 2019 | Core raises $4M; Retail Zipline secured $9.6M; Sawyer closed $11M; OpenFin landed $17M
Core: Core is a meditation experience and personalized wellness company. Core has raised $4 million seed funding round led by Spero Ventures along with B... |
| May 9, 2019 | Daily funding roundup - May 9th, 2018 | Humanpredictions raised $1M; Chipper Cash landed $2.4M; Stratio closed $2.5M; Intello secured $3M
Humanpredictions: Humanpredictions is a sourcing solution focused on hiring technical talent and differentiated by its rich data that allows i... |
| Mar 17, 2019 | A huge trove of medical records and prescriptions found exposed | A health tech company was leaking thousands of doctor’s notes, medical records, and prescriptions daily after a security lapse left a server without a password.
The little-known software company, California-based Meditab, bills itself as on... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | Achieving the ultimate healthcare outcome for your practice: value-based care | A survey conducted this year by ORC International showed that value-based care is responsible for reducing unnecessary medical costs by an average of 5.6 percent. A high percentage of payers also reported other significant improvements:
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| May 28, 2018 | New Glooko CEO: Livongo gets a lot of press but our approach is different | In a recent, wide-ranging phone interview on the future of Glooko and his role, Johannesson pushed back on the idea that he is the CEO whose sole goal is to take Glooko to an exit, opined on competitors like Livongo, and painted a picture o... |
| May 2, 2018 | As digital health companies proliferate, it’s getting tougher to spot the strongest businesses | But if you dig a little deeper, there are some interesting things to notice.
Another thing to notice: some deals are way more equal than others, to misquote a book almost everyone was forced to read in junior high. Megadeals have come to di... |
| Aug 31, 2017 | Gregor Joins Texas Accelerator to Advance Prostate Cancer Test | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Tobias Zutz left his job as a senior research associate at Exact Sciences in 2015, he knew he wanted his next career stop to be at a smaller organization.
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| Aug 29, 2017 | Value-based care week 3: Telehealth, consumer accountability | Employers to offer more telehealth services; ACO challenges; Blue print for VB care
Here's our latest value-based weekly! Sorry, the team has been busy the last couple weeks, so I'm stepping in, temporarily.
Editor's note: Join us for a hig... |
| Aug 9, 2017 | Chicago-Based Healthcare Startup Groove Health Raises $1.6M | Chicago-based healthtech startup Groove Health announced it has raised $1.6M in a seed round to help expand its medication adherence platform for health insurance companies, hospital systems, and self-insured employers. The company was esta... |
| Feb 5, 2017 | Direct-to-patient email and text communication is best for engaging patients in their care | Research proves it works
Many studies show the impact of both email and text on improving patient outcomes.
One systematic review found that 8 out of 9 studies support text messaging as an effective tool for behavior change in areas such as... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Overview: Health tech startups innovating the behavioral health space | 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, and previously served as an Asso... |
| May 23, 2016 | Research and Development: Bridging the Gap Between Hospitals, Patients, and Life Sciences | Improving the current state of life sciences research will require collaborative efforts on the parts of several stakeholders — in particular, hospitals, patients, and researchers.
What the Stakeholders Can Do
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| May 9, 2016 | Morning Read: Takeda receives $38M from Bill and Melinda Gates for low-cost polio vaccine | LIFE SCIENCES
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is backing away from its push to get Custom Ultrasonics to recall its 2,800 scope-cleaning machines used by hospitals and clinics. — MedPage Today
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| Apr 12, 2016 | Livongo raises $45M to support customer growth in diabetes management | In Touch, Livongo’s connected glucometer, has a few functions: It uploads readings online and it also provides data analytics. It can notify the user’s care team and their social network when levels fall outside of the norm, and it provides... |
| Apr 4, 2016 | How I learned to overcome my bias against for-profit medicine | When I started medical school, my South Asian immigrant parents quietly hoped I would find my way to cardiology or another glamorous specialty. Instead, I spent a decade — first as a medical student, then as an intern and resident in intern... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | Inside the race to diagnose cancer from a simple blood draw | BOSTON — It’s a medical puzzle that has snagged the attention — and the money — of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and venture capitalists across the nation: Is it possible to diagnose cancer from a simple blood draw?
Surgical biopsies are the norm... |
| Mar 3, 2016 | #HIMSS16 Day 4 Buzz: Let’s rank the big issues discussed at HIMSS | Photo: @healthcarewen
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| Feb 2, 2016 | Morning Read: Iowa caucus results show single payer lives (at least in Bernie Sanders’ mind) | Some observers believe Sanders’ support for single-payer helped him energize his supporters in the Democratic race. – Modern Healthcare
Hillary Clinton’s razor thin lead as votes and delegates continued to be counted this morning in Iowa’s ... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Morning Read: FDA greenlights Merck’s Hepatitis C drug aimed at lower price point | Cambia Health Solutions has shut down its mobile health payment startup Wellero two years after it launched. The company’s app allowed people to pay for healthcare services. — HIT Consultant
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| Jan 19, 2016 | A start-up CEO’s takeaways from JP Morgan and the year ahead in digital health | What’s driving all of this activity? We think Bessemer’s perspective is valuable. There’s a trillion-dollar-value shift taking place in the next five-10 years. This is because 75% or more of all healthcare payments will be value-based by 20... |
| Jan 10, 2016 | Startup backed by big names aims to detect early cancer in blood | A top genetic sequencing company and a bevy of big-name investors are launching a new company that aims to detect cancer through a blood test.
The startup, called Grail, aims to fish little bits of genetic material out of the blood, sequenc... |
| Jan 4, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 4, 2016 | Scholar Rock received $36M; DeePoon landed $30M; SilverCar raised $28M Series C funding
Japan-based startup news media The Bridge today announced raising an undisclosed amount of funding from Fuji Startup Ventures and PR Times. Founded in 2... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Nick Allen Is Out As CEO Of Shuddle, Doug Aley Steps In To Lead ‘Uber For Kids’ Startup | The cost of competing against Uber can be high, and today comes news of another casualty in that race. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Nick Allen, the founder of Shuddle, has stepped down as CEO of the company. Shuddle is an on-de... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 17, 2015 | Earnest bagged $275M; Datto raised $75M; IIX Inc. secured $26M
Skulpt, creator of a device for measuring body fat percentage and muscle quality, today announced that it had raised $4.1 million in a Series A funding round led by Nautilus Ven... |
| Nov 11, 2015 | Morning Read: Safeway’s paternership with Theranos fizzles, $350M later | LIFE SCIENCES
Two more IPOs. Two more mixed results. WaVe Life Sciences hit its per share price and sold more shares than it thought. Voyager Therapeutics, meanwhile, was a little short of its target (but also sold more shares than planned)... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | HVP – Wellcentive Named 2015 “Emerging Company of the Year” | Atlanta-based population health solution provider Wellcentive, has been announced as winner of the Health IT Leadership Summit’s annual Phoenix Awards for the category of “Emerging Company of the Year.” Presented annually by Metro Atlanta C... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | 1DocWay CEO takes stock of acquisition, future | It raised $1.7 million from 12 investors. Among them are iSeedVC, Rock Health, Asset Management, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and Waterline Ventures. Other investors in the company include Asset Management Ventures and Texas Medical Center, ... |
| Sep 19, 2015 | Tech Is Driving Collaboration In Behavioral Health | Arun Gupta Contributor
Arun Gupta is the founder and CEO of Quartet Health, a behavioral health technology company that enables seamless collaboration between medical and behavioral health caregivers.
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| Aug 6, 2015 | 5 Predictions For The Future Of Wearables | Guest author Andrew Hooge is an exercise physiologist, entrepreneur, software developer, author and a product manager at mobile health-data firm Validic.
Human beings have long been fascinated with the notion of people and machines becoming... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 1, 2015 | GrabTaxi secured $250M; Zozi nabbed $30M; PubNub raised $20M
PubNub, a provider of cloud-based infrastructure for real-time applications raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding to help scale it. The round was led by Sapphire Ventu... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | What does population health really mean? Healthcare executives pipe in | Here are 10 different definitions of the term given out of the 37 surveyed, according to HIT Consultant:
Wayne Brackin – Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Baptist Health South Florida
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| Jun 3, 2015 | Teva Pharmaceuticals invests “tens of millions” in telemedicine startup American Well | “Teva is committed to attaining a significant presence in the rapidly growing electronic medicine field, so that it can expand its solutions beyond medication,” Vigodman told Globes. “The investment in American Well is an important mileston... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read) | It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file for marketing approval for a gene therapy to combat adenosine deaminase severe combined immune deficiency when it submits its drug for ADA-SCID in Europe, according ... |
