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| Oct 14, 2021 | Mass General Brigham Announces $25 million in New Funding for Scholars Program | Boston, MA, Oct. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mass General Brigham today announced $25 million in new funding for its Scholars Program and a commitment to extend the successful program for another ten years. The program, which was launched ... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out | This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I just want to say … yesterday was a really hard day,” said Chuck Morris, one of the two people now in charge of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Personal... |
| Mar 14, 2020 | The Vertex Foundation Donates $500K to Partners HealthCare to Support COVID-19 Outbreak Response | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) announced that the Vertex Foundation, a nonprofit charitable foundation, is making a $500k gift to Partners HealthCare, a Boston-based nonprofit hospital and physician network, to support t... |
| Dec 12, 2019 | Partners HealthCare Launches $100M, 5-Year Digital Health Initiative to Reshape the Patient Experience | – Partners HealthCare launches $100M, five-year digital health initiative focused on patient experience, clinical transformation, scaling research and development, and streamline hospital operations.
– The digital health initiative will inc... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Partners HealthCare Creates Two Investment Funds | Boston, MA-based health system Partners HealthCare has launched two new investment funds aimed at addressing the lack of translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technology development.
T... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | In the crusade against physician burnout, some preach ‘resilience.’ It’s not that simple | During a recent run-in with burnout, my co-resident at a large teaching hospital in Boston proposed several small but tangible changes that would significantly improve her life as a physician, things like getting help with retrieving outsid... |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Partners HealthCare raises $171M for second innovation fund for healthcare startups (Updated) | Several pharma companies have backed Partners Innovation Fund II such as Astellas Pharma, Eli Lilly, Shang Pharma Corp., and Simcere Pharmaceutical Group. The fund will invest in 15-20 companies, said Roger Kitterman, Vice President of Part... |
| May 21, 2017 | GE Healthcare, Partners embark on decade-long AI collaboration | GE Healthcare and Partners HealthCare, both based in Boston, Massachusetts, are banding together on a 10-year long mission involving one of the hottest phenomena of today: artificial intelligence.
The project will be carried out through the... |
| May 19, 2017 | Boston Tech Watch: GE, HubSpot, Fuze, MIT, Vesper, Quickhelp & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was a busy week in Boston tech. Here’s a recap of some of the latest headlines:
—GE Healthcare and Partners HealthCare announced a 10-year partnership to develop artificial... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Partners Healthcare and Persistent Systems join forces to produce clinical decision support tools | Clinicians, growing weary of valueless box checking and unnecessary complexity, complain that information technology has not lived up to its promise of improving patient care. But a major health system and global software developer are team... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | With Analyte collaboration Teladoc integrates lab tests into telemedicine | The collaboration, which should be in full swing by April, will allow Teladoc physicians to connect patients with an Analyte technician in their area to collect the blood or specimen sample needed to confirm a diagnosis. Results are electro... |
| Jan 11, 2016 | Partners HealthCare expands life sciences innovation fund to $100M | Markell said that Partners Innovation Fund monetized three companies this year: Immuno-oncology startup CoStim Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Novartis; Adheron Therapeutics, acquired by Roche for $580 million; and Annovation Biopharma, acquir... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Brain prosthetics? Neuromodulation? The ‘disruptive dozen’ techs that’ll accelerate neuropsychiatric care | Alzheimer’s-in-a-dish: It’s now possible to replicate human brain cells on a petri dish, helping researchers sidestep the lobotomy to learn a bit more about Alzheimer’s intricate biology.
Experimental drugs to reduce beta amyloid and lessen... |
| Dec 2, 2014 | QPID Health expands EHR software into psych care with Silver Hill partnership | While psychiatric facilities face similar challenges to all hospitals in EHR implementation and data usage, there are some unique elements that can be particularly beneficial for the setting, said Dr. Sigurd Ackerman, president and medical ... |
| Aug 16, 2014 | Study: Social media pages focused on chronic illnesses are mostly for marketing | “Public health interventions using Facebook will need to be designed to ensure relevant information is easy to find and with an understanding that stigma associated with some health conditions may limit the users’ engagement with Facebook p... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | Apple's on-stage HealthKit goof proves it still has to earn the trust of the health community | Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, an image flashed up on the screen behind VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi. It was a screen shot from Apple’s new Health app (or a mockup thereof), showing a user’s blood glucose le... |
| May 6, 2014 | QPID Health Raises $12M to Expand Medical Record Search Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A colonoscopy isn’t one of those appointments that you can just show up for.
As anyone who’s had the pleasure of undergoing the procedure will certainly tell you, there’s a lo... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Penn Medicine to open Center for Sleep in joint venture in India | Sleep disorders are a global problem and are frequently connected to obesity and chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and heart failure. But sleep disorders can also be connected to aging and depression. The estimates for obstructive sl... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Partners HealthCare Gets 7 Year $12M NIH Grant for Biomedical Innovation Center | Partners HealthCare announced today that it was awarded a seven year grant worth $12 million from the National Institutes of Health to form the Boston-Biomedical Innovation Center. The innovation center will also include its founding hospit... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | Health investors weigh in on Obamacare’s winners and losers | SAN FRANCISCO — A few hours before Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges opened up, a group of health care investors gathered at a restaurant in downtown San Francisco to discuss how information technology can play a role in combating esca... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Boston hospitals monitor patients from their homes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You can obsessively track and monitor your heart ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Boston hospitals monitor patients from their homes | You can obsessively track and monitor your heart rate or blood pressure, but the data doesn’t mean much until it’s in the hands of a physician.
In Massachusetts, a few hospitals are experimenting with ways to pull data from remote patient-m... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Connected Health Study Finds Mobile Health Improves Patient Engagement | Mobile health can positively impact patient engagement, clinical outcomes, and operational workflow in remote monitoring programs according to a recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health. The study found that patients using ... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Updated: Coburn to exit Cleveland Clinic Innovations for Partners HealthCare in Boston | “Chris brings to Partners years of experience — on both the national and international stage — in the field of forging closer ties between industry and academic medicine,” said Partners Chief Academic Officer Dr. Anne Klibanski in a stateme... |
| Mar 28, 2013 | Diagnostic to improve identification time for hospital acquired fungal infection gets Goldman Sachs backing | The test speeds up the detection time because it eliminates several steps from the current diagnostic process. It does not require optical detection, nor does it need biological samples to undergo purification, according to T2Biosystems’ we... |
| Jun 10, 2010 | XSITE’s Mobile Health Panel Rallies Heavyweights in Wireless and Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For entrepreneurs, launching health IT startups to commercialize mobile or wireless technologies can be daunting. While there are many opportunities to create companies around... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Night Read (Ohio): Cleveland Clinic won’t do face, hand transplants for Charla Nash | Dublin health care services company Cardinal Health Inc. said Monday it has named James Mongan, former president and CEO of Massachusetts General Hospital one of the founding members of Partners HealthCare to its board of directors, Busines... |
| Jun 22, 2009 | ABS Capital defies downturn, beats target with new $420M fund | After more than a year spent raising money, ABS Capital Partners announced it has closed its new fund at $420 million, handily exceeding its goal of $400 million despite last fall’s downturn. The firm says that several of its limited partne... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | T2 Biosystems brings in $10.8M for diagnostics | T2 Biosystems, a company working to develop new diagnostic methods, received $10.8 million in second-round financing from new investors In-Q-Tel (which also helps fund the CIA, incidentally) and Partners Healthcare, and existing investors F... |
| Study: Social media pages focused on chronic illnesses are mostly for marketing | Social media and healthcare are an odd couple, at least for Facebook.
It turns out that only about 9.5 percent of Facebook pages about chronic diseases are used for actual support, while about 32 percent of such pages are marketing ploys, a... |
| Penn Medicine to open Center for Sleep in joint venture in India | Penn Medicine is planning to expand its Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology with the opening of a center in Mumbai, India in a joint venture with the Mahatma Gandhi Mission Institute of Health Sciences, MedCity News has learned. The... |
| Partners Healthcare and Persistent Systems join forces to produce clinical decision support tools | Clinicians, growing weary of valueless box checking and unnecessary complexity, complain that information technology has not lived up to its promise of improving patient care. But a major health system and global software developer are team... |
| GE Healthcare, Partners embark on decade-long AI collaboration | GE Healthcare and Partners HealthCare, both based in Boston, Massachusetts, are banding together on a 10-year long mission involving one of the hottest phenomena of today: artificial intelligence.
The project will be carried out through the... |
| With Analyte collaboration Teladoc integrates lab tests into telemedicine | The recent announcement involving Teladoc, a Purchase, New York-based telemedicine service provider, and Analyte Health, a Chicago-based telehealth lab diagnostics company underscores how telemedicine is coming of age.
The partnership has b... |
| Diagnostic to improve identification time for hospital acquired fungal infection gets Goldman Sachs backing | A biotechnology company that’s developed a molecular diagnostic test platform to cut the time it takes to diagnose a hospital-acquired fungal infection called Candidemia from two days to three hours has secured fresh capital in a financing ... |
| Partners HealthCare raises $171 million to invest in early-stage life science companies | Boston, Massachusetts., Nov. 8, 2017 – Exclusively dedicated to the development of breakthrough technologies that help patients and the state’s innovation economy.
Partners HealthCare System announced today the closing of $171.1 million in... |
| Updated: Coburn to exit Cleveland Clinic Innovations for Partners HealthCare in Boston | UPDATED 2:45 p.m. to add job title and comments from Partners HealthCare.
Cleveland Clinic Innovations’ executive director, Chris Coburn, who has led the prolific technology commercialization arm of the Clinic since its formation in 2000, i... |
| QPID Health expands EHR software into psych care with Silver Hill partnership | Digital health startup QPID Health recently announced that its EHR augmentation software was adopted by Silver Hill Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Connecticut that hopes to glean better insights on behavioral health patterns of an ofte... |
| Partners HealthCare expands life sciences innovation fund to $100M | Partners HealthCare is expanding its Innovation Fund from $35 million to $100 million, the Massachusetts health system announced today at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
The fund, which was launched as an experiment in 2007 with fund... |
| Night Read (Ohio): Cleveland Clinic won’t do face, hand transplants for Charla Nash | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
The Cleveland Clinic said Monday that it will not perform a face and hand transplant on Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman savagely attacked by a chimpanzee last February, according to the Assoc... |
| Brain prosthetics? Neuromodulation? The ‘disruptive dozen’ techs that’ll accelerate neuropsychiatric care | Partners Healthcare just released a list of what it ranks the top dozen most promising approaches in neurocare. Here’s that dozen, populated with useful links that inform the direction academia – and business – are headed. They’ve been vett... |