Innovation consulting firm and venture capital investment manager Healthbox has appointed Neil Patel to President and Chief Operating Officer. The announcement comes one month after former Healthbox CEO Nina Nashif stepped down pursue her own interests. Under his leadership, Neil will lead Healthbox’s vision of helping healthcare organizations successfully foster innovation.Healthbox has evolved from a healthcare accelerator to an innovation consulting firm and venture capital investment
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Catalyze Raises $6.5M to Expand HIPAA Compliance & EHR Integration
Catalyze, Inc., a Madison, Wisconsin-based provider of HIPAA compliant cloud services for secure healthcare data has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding led by Lewis & Clark Ventures, with participation of existing investors, Arthur Ventures, Baird Venture Partners and Chicago Ventures.The latest investment round brings total Catalyze funding to more than $12.5 million since inception of its compliant cloud infrastructure. Catalyze plans to utilize the funding to expand its sales and
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ePatientFinder Joins athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” Marketplace
ePatientFinder®, a provider EHR-driven clinical trial recruitment has joined athenahealth's More Disruption Please (MDP) program and is now part of the athenahealth® Marketplace offerings — and its innovative solution for clinical trial recruitment is now available to athenahealth's growing cloud-based network of more than 80,000 healthcare providers. The partnership with athenahealth represent ePatientFinder's leadership role in solving the clinical trials recruitment challenge by leveraging
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AirStrip Granted FDA 510(k) Clearance, Patent for AirStrip ONE App
AirStrip announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to a web client for the AirStrip ONE® mobile interoperability platform and app that can be run on desktops and laptops using Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. AirStrip ONE® provides a single, data- and vendor-agnostic platform that connects clinicians with the right information at the right time, via the most convenient device at hand.The company also recently received a U.S. patent for new functionality: ECG waveform 'visual calipers'
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McKesson Launches Interoperability Platform to Build FHIR API Apps
Today, McKesson Health Solutions (MHS) unveiled the McKesson Intelligence Hub, a new technology platform for enabling interoperability and sharing business intelligence among healthcare apps. The result of a multi-year development program, the Intelligence Hub is designed to connect MHS’s portfolio of automated reimbursement solutions and help streamline payment by making interoperability easy for customers, partners and vendors across the healthcare ecosystem.Moving Beyond Data
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American Well Adds Psychiatry Services to its Telehealth Offering
Telehealth provider American Well has added psychiatry services to its core telehealth offering through its clinical partner, The Online Care Group with plans to roll it out across all States in the U.S. by end of 2016. American Well has provided has provided behavioral health services as part of its core telehealth offering since Summer 2014. American Well's psychiatry program is available to adults ages 18 and above. Currently more than 400 credentialed therapists see patients across the
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Accenture Launches HealthTech Innovation Challenge for Startups
Accenture today announced the launch of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge where startups from around the globe will compete to bring innovative technology and creative solutions forward to improve the way people access and manage healthcare. The program from Accenture’s Life Sciences and Health practices brings together innovative startups with many of the largest life sciences companies and healthcare providers to tackle some of the world’s greatest health challenges including
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Nebraska Medicine to Implement Epic’s Population Health Platform
Nebraska Medicine, a large academic medical center announced that it will implement Epic’s Healthy Planet population health platform to support more affordable care across its clinically integrated network, Nebraska Health Partners. The Epic implementation will help expand data interoperability and integrate 1,100 physicians currently using different EHRs. Nebraska Health Partners will help private practice physicians work more collaboratively across the state to improve care, reduce costs,
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IBM Expands Waston Health to Finland for Personalized Healthcare
Today, IBM announced a partnership with Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency that will enable Finland will be able to utilize Watson Health's cognitive computing to help doctors improve the health of its citizens, and strengthen and develop the Finnish innovation and business ecosystem in the fields of health and well-being.This new partnership is expected to accelerate creation of new start-up companies in Finland, gain new opportunities for Finland companies for global growth, and help to
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ExplORer Surgical Nabs $1M for Real-Time Mobile Surgical Playbook
ExplORer Surgical, a Chicago-based startup has raised $1 million in seed funding for its real-time mobile-based surgical playbook that promotes optimal teamwork in the operating room. Investors in the seed round include CJM Ventures, M25 Group, SymphonyAlpha Ventures, The University of Chicago Innovation Fund, Wasson Enterprise, along with several prominent healthcare and technology angel investors. Inefficiency and Errors in the OR RoomImproper room preparation, mid-case handoffs, inexperienced
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