Editor's Note: Margalit Gur-Arie is the founder, BizMed. She writes regularly about the intersection of healthcare & technology on her site: On Health Care Technology. Follow her on Twitter at @margalitgurarie
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Archives for 2015
Kaiser Permanente Ventures Pumps $10M into Vidyo for Telehealth
Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente has invested $10 million in high quality visual communications Vidyo for telehealth and video collaboration. The Vidyo funding round also includes $5M from existing investors, for a total of $15M follow-on round of funding. The company will use the funds to accelerate growth in vertical markets.
The VidyoWorks platform has a FIPS 140-2 certified crypto-kernel, providing HIPAA-compliant encryption, and a rich
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Rock Health Releases 2015 Digital Health Funding: 11 Trends to Know
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare has released their Digital Health Funding: Year in Review 2015 Report, an in-depth analysis report of all digital health funding in 2015. The report found digital health funding in 2015 surpassed $4.3B, up from $4.1B in 2014. This represents 278 deals across 248 companies, closing with a new record average deal size of $15.6M.
The report produced by Halle Tecco, Mara Perman, Teresa Wang, Emily
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Georgia’s Piedmont First to Offer On-Demand Virtual Visits
Starting today, consumers in Georgia can see a board-certified physician via virtual visit from their smart phone or tablet thanks to the new app Piedmont On Call.
Powered by Alii Healthcare, Piedmont On Call app is the first of its kind in Georgia allowing consumers physician consultants via Piedmont On Call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of the week for $100 per virtual visit.
The app is specifically designed to help consumers receive faster treatment for low-acuity, urgent healthcare
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Edumedics Raises $4.2M to Expand Care Management Platform
Louisville, KY-based care management company Edumedics has raised $4.2 million in Series A financing led by Lunsford Capital. The round was joined by Chicago-based OCA Ventures and syndicate of angel investors and seed funds. Among them: Entrepreneur and Chrysalis Ventures Co-founder Doug Cobb, Enterprise Angels Fund, and 13 individuals geographically dispersed from Chicago to Florida.
The funding will be used to expand to other states from its core populations in Kentucky and
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Google’s Verily Wants to Develop Surgical Robots
Verily Life Sciences, which was formerly known as Google Life Sciences announced on Thursday announced a strategic collaboration between Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson medical devices company to form a surgical solutions company called Verb Surgical Inc. The new company aims to develop a comprehensive surgical robotics-assisted platform that will incorporate leading-edge robotic capabilities and best-in-class medical device technology for operating room professionals
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7 Factors Influencing How Consumers Will Dictate the Doctor Experience in 2016
Editor's Note: Jim Prendergast is a digital health entrepreneur, and the CEO and Co-Founder of HealthiestYou, a telehealth and wellness delivery innovator. Jim recently led the company through a $30 million round of growth funding from Frontier Capital.
The healthcare industry is experiencing a new driver at the wheel. In 2016 this will become more apparent than ever. It’s you. And, it’s me. It is in fact, all of us who want less-hassle healthcare access, cost containment and a complete
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The Top 9 Most In-Demand Medical Jobs
Anyone who is looking for job security in the coming years has to look no further than the medical field. As the American population lives longer and the Baby Boomer generation ages the need for medical treatments and disease prevention is growing. The healthcare industry has been a huge economic driver in recent years, and this year hospital jobs grew more rapidly than any other time since 1991.
Another important caveat is the fact that now 89% of people in the U.S. have health insurance.
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Health Tech Incubator MATTER Adds 20 New HIT Startups
Chicago based health tech incubator MATTER has added twenty more startups to its membership bringing its total to 115 companies. Since its inception, MATTER has now more than doubled its number of companies since it launched, connecting entrepreneurs, scientists, physicians, investors in the health IT space.
The incubator recently launch the AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER designed to facilitate connections between entrepreneurs and physicians. The studio will allow entrepreneurs to
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Illumina Accelerator Unveils Third Cycle of Genomics Startups
Illumina Accelerator, a business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry—has selected four new investments from its third funding cycle.
During the six-month Accelerator funding cycle, each startup will gain access to business guidance and fully operational lab space in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as seed investment, a subscription to Illumina’s NextBio translational genomics database, Illumina’s Genologics Clarity LIMS software, access
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