Talix, Inc., a health tech subsidiary of Healthline Networks, announced that it is spinning off as an independent company and has secured $14 million in funding led by Summit Partners. This capital will be used to fund the growth of the company’s core risk adjustment product, Coding InSight, and support the development of future applications in its planned suite of patient risk management products powered by Talix’s proprietary HealthData Engine.
Dean Stephens will serve as the new Chief
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Barton Health Becomes First Provider to Prescribe Ingestible Sensors to Patients
Proteus Digital Health today announced that Barton Health, a Lake Tahoe, CA-based non-profit, rural health system has become the first US healthcare provider to prescribe patients ingestible sensors using the company's Proteus Discover solution. The deployment marks the first commercial implementation of the FDA-cleared technology in the United States after the completion of successful clinical trials.
Barton Health will utilize Proteus Discover to improve medication adherence for patients
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Springboard Launches Healthcare-Focused Equity Crowdfunding Platform
Springboard Equity Inc. has launched an equity crowdfunding platform - dedicated exclusively to the healthcare industry to bring capital to vetted, high potential, early stage innovative companies. The platform aims to make the fundraising process more efficient for medical devices, digital health, biotech, health IT, mobile and diagnostics startups.
Launched in July 2015, Springboard spent the first five months building their technology, their investor community, and different affiliates.
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AT&T Launches Foundry For Connected Health to Foster Digital Health Innovation
Telecom leader AT&T is set to open the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health in February 2016 at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute in Houston. The new foundry will focus on digital health innovations that benefit those in and out of the clinical care environment – helping caregivers and patients bridge the gap between a clinical setting and the home. The new opening marks the company's fifth foundry innovation center.
By leveraging Texas Medical Center’s campus, the the
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Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation
Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Massachusetts business leaders are teaming up to launch an initiative to create a digital health hub. With support from the City of Boston, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI), and MACP, the new digital health innovation hub will provide startups with coworking space, programming and industry network support. Programming through the hub will be managed and operated by
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging
BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy.
Building on this, the companies will move
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Withings Unveils Wi-Fi Connected Smart Sensor Thermometer
Withings, a leader in the connected health revolution, has extended its therapeutic areas of expertise with the unveiling of the FDA-approved Withings Thermo - a Wi-Fi-connected temporal artery thermometer with a revolutionary 16-sensor array that provides one of the fastest, most accurate, non-invasive temperature readings available.
Withings Thermo will be available in Q1 2016 for a MSRP of $99.95 and will be supported by a dedicated app for both iOS and Android devices. Within the app
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Pathway Genomics Nabs $40M to Expand Precision Medicine via Genetic Testing
San Diego, CA-based Pathway Genomics, a clinical laboratory facilitating precision medicine through genetic testing and mobile healthcare applications has raised over $40 million in Series E funding. This brings the total investment into Pathway Genomics to over $130 million. Investors in this round of funding include IBM Watson, Pathway's partner in the development of a mobile health application using artificial intelligence to provide personalized health and wellness guidance. The capital will
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Jared Kesselheim Joins Leerink Capital Partners to Lead Health Tech Investments
Leerink Capital Partners, a leading healthcare investment bank, announced that Jared Kesselheim joined the firm as a Managing Partner on January 1, 2016. Based in Boston, Dr. Kesselheim is co-managing Leerink Capital Partners’ healthcare technology and services and digital healthcare investment initiative. Kesselheim joins Todd Cozzens who recently came to Leerink Capital Partners from Sequoia Capital to lead LEERINK’s healthcare growth equity effort.
Dr. Kesselheim brings to LEERINK over
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Mayo Clinic Unloads Data Center to Epic for $46M
Nearly a year after selecting Epic for its single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management (RCM) system, Mayo Clinic is selling its 62,000 square-foot data center located in Rochester, MN to Epic for $46M in a sale-leaseback deal, Finance & Commerce reports.
Leaseback, short for 'sale-and-leaseback,' is a financial transaction, where one sells an asset and leases it back for the long-term; therefore, one continues to be able to use the asset but no longer owns it. As part of the
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