Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform, today announced the launch of Axon, a SmartStudy system that enables health experts--researchers, physicians, and others--to build ResearchKit apps without a developer in a matter of hours. By leveraging ResearchKit's platform, Axon unlocks the potential of health professionals to directly collect patient data at massive scale through dedicated mobile apps reducing development time from six months to one day. While there are a lot
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Mana Health Launches Health IT Sandbox to Test Digital Health Innovation
Mana Health, a technology provider for healthcare data access solutions has announced the availability of ManaCreate, a technology and support solution designed to enable faster and more cost effective commercialization of healthcare innovation. Targeted to innovation and IT groups within health systems and hospitals, ManaCreate supports the process for testing and integration of new applications to support a more agile innovation process.Bringing any new healthcare IT system to market generally
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StartUp Health Launches Digital Health Innovation Hub in Colorado
On Monday, StartUp Health announced the launch of StartUp Health Colorado, a digital health innovation hub on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora for health entrepreneurs, doctorpreneurs, investors and industry stakeholders. The innovation hub will also leverage StartUp Health's global platform to cross-pollinate health innovations with other regions around the world.Here are 5 things to know about the new innovation hub:1. StartUp Health Colorado innovation hub
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Philips, Emory Launch Australia’s First Remote Intensive Care Unit
Macquarie University has partnered with Philips and Emory Healthcare to launch Australia’s first remote intensive care unit (eICU) monitoring program to monitor patients around the clock. As part of the partnership, critical care nurses based onsite at Sydney’s Macquarie University’s MQ Health will utilize Philip’s eICU technology and Emory Healthcare’s intensivists to provide continuous critical care to patients back in the United States. How It WorksPhilips' eICU solution allows for near
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Healthbox Taps Neil Patel as New President and COO
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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