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Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Startups Raise $10M

by HITC Staff 06/09/2015 Leave a Comment

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Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator, announced cumulative fundraising results from its two startup classes today, reporting that the 22 companies collectively raised more than $10 million in the two years since the program began. The announcement comes just ahead of the June 15 deadline for startups to apply to the 2015 accelerator program and become a part of Health Wildcatters’ third startup class. Last month Health Wildcatters announced results
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AbilTo Raises $12M for Evidence-based Behavior Change Programs

by HITC Staff 06/09/2015 Leave a Comment

AbilTo, Inc., a provider of evidence-based behavioral change programs proven to improve medical health and lower cost for high-cost medical populations has closed a $12 million Series C round of financing. The round was led by HLM Venture Partners (HLM) and Yumin Choi, Partner along with previous investors BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, .406 Ventures and Sandbox Industries. The New-York based digital health startup will utilize the capital to fuel the deployment of engagement, care
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How Apple, Qualcomm & Lawyers will Revolutionize Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 06/08/2015 2 Comments

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  Editor's Note:  This post is written by Jeffrey Vogel, David Wong and Kathleen Collins from Bulger Partners, an advisory firm that specializes in healthcare IT.  The opportunity for technology in healthcare is monumental – and it’s no surprise that change is needed. Healthcare is a cumbersome, $3 trillion industry bloated with high costs, inefficiencies, and information asymmetries. Today, the wealth of data being created in medical settings is often not archived, shared, or
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Medtronic, Samsung Partner to Enhance Diabetes Management

by HITC Staff 06/05/2015 Leave a Comment

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Medtronic and Samsung Electronics has announced a partnership to improve diabetes management for the millions of people at risk and currently living with the disease. Together, Medtronic and Samsung will combine Samsung’s deep understanding of consumer mobile technology to deliver secure and convenient access to Medtronic’s integrated diabetes management systems that provide clinically-proven outcomes. Managing diabetes effectively requires daily ongoing management to keep blood sugar levels
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FDA Approval of Digital Health Solutions Expected to Triple by 2018

by HITC Staff 06/04/2015 Leave a Comment

FDA-regulated digital health solutions are expected to save the U.S. healthcare system more than $100 billion over the next four years, according to new research from Accenture. Accenture also predicts that FDA approvals of digital health solutions will triple by the end of 2018, to 100, from 33 last year.  The Accenture study assessed the number of digital health solutions that received FDA 510(k) clearance from 2010 through 2014. The analysis focused on devices and software created for
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CMS Chief Data Officer Recieves Health Data Liberators Award

by Fred Pennic 06/04/2015 Leave a Comment

CMS Chief Data Officer Recieves Health Data Liberators Award

Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer and the Director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the CMS has been announced as the recipient of this year's Health Data Liberators Award for his efforts to share CMS data in innovative ways to help improve the quality and value of care delivery. Chris Boone, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of HDC, and Charles Ornstein, presented the award in front of nearly 2,000 innovators, healthcare industry executives, policymakers, venture capitalists,
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Former Facebook CFO Launches Digital Health Company Lyra Health

by Jasmine Pennic 06/04/2015 Leave a Comment

Former Facebook and Genentech CFO David Ebersman along with experienced group of tech leaders, clinicians, data scientists, and health care policy experts has announced the launch of a new new behavioral digital health startup called Lyra Health. Backed by venture capital firm Venrock, Lyra Health will have a singular focus on transforming behavioral health, enabling more patients to get the care they need, when they need it. Approximately 50 million Americans suffer from behavioral health
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New CMS Policy To Provide Entrepreneurs Access Medicare Data

by HITC Staff 06/02/2015 Leave a Comment

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Today at sixth annual Health Datapalooza, the acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Andy Slavitt, announced a new policy that for the first time will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to access CMS data, such as Medicare claims. As part of the Administration’s commitment to use of data and information to drive transformation of the healthcare delivery system, CMS will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to conduct approved research that will ultimately improve
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BaseHealth Launches World’s Most Comprehensive Genomic API

by Fred Pennic 06/02/2015 Leave a Comment

BaseHealth Launches World’s Most Comprehensive Genomic API

5 new API services enhance health and well-being applications and incite the development of new genomic-driven innovations BaseHealth, the precision health and medicine company, has announced the launch of the BaseHealth API, a set of five calls that gives developers the ability to integrate genomic data and comprehensive health assessments into their health and wellbeing applications. The API adds genomic precision to any modern health and wellbeing offering. BaseHealth API Overview The
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20 UK Digital Health Startups to Watch

by Komal Garewal 06/02/2015 1 Comment

20 UK Digital Health Startups to Watch

It began as the epicenter of innovation in health technology, but now the United States and its model of incubation and open investment is catalyzing the emergence of tech hubs globally, some of the largest are now in the European Union. The United Kingdom is just starting to capture its share of the limelight on digital health tech and is now the fourth most entrepreneurial country in the world according to the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Index. The U.K., in particular England, has
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