2014 was an all-time record for digital health investments, with over $4B pouring into the health IT/digital health space, according to Rock Health. The San Francisco based full service seed fund for digital health startups recorded over ~120% growth YoY for total dollars invested, with an absolute growth of over $2.2B. The CAGR over the past four years is 44%. More than 287 companies have been funded this year—107 more than last year, representing 58% YoY growth.
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7 Google Ventures Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare
Forget the “sky’s the limit.” Google is reaching for the moon when it comes to healthcare innovation.
Call it bold. Call it ambitious. But one thing you can’t call Google’s recent foray into healthcare innovation is, well, subtle. With a mission to make “The world’s information useful,” and capitalize on its big-data prowess, Google is preparing to carve a serious space for itself in healthcare—right between data-enriched innovation and research revelation.
It seems like the
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Study: 41% of Home Caregivers Use A Digital Health Device
41 percent of caregivers in U.S. broadband households currently use a digital health device as part of their caregiving routine, including 8 percent who use online tools to coordinate their efforts, according to recent research from Parks Associates.
The research firm's latest report, 360 View: Health Devices and Services for Connected Consumers 2014 analyzes multiple consumer surveys, including a 2Q 2014 survey of 10,000 U.S. broadband households, to analyze consumer health and
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Can A Google Glass App Help the Hearing Impaired?
Close to 30 million people in the US alone suffer from hearing impairment. Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a Google Glass app especially designed for the hearing impaired called Captioning on Glass (CoG). How does the technology work? Is it genuinely useful to the hearing impaired? What are the pitfalls of the app? While some researchers say that it is possible, others deny it.
How does Google Glass work for the hearing impaired?
A Georgia Tech research team is credited with
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Texas Medical Center and Village Capital Launch Program for Digital Health Startups
Texas Medical Center (TMC) and Village Capital, a managed investment fund and nonprofit focused on supporting impact-driven entrepreneurs, have joined forces to launch the VilCap USA: Health IT 2014 program, which will support early-stage businesses that are seeking digital health and business solutions to make healthcare more affordable and of a higher quality for all Americans.
Program & Model Overview
The program is structured in four intensive four-day sessions over three months, with
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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5M Healthier World Innovation Challenge
The Aetna Foundation today announced the Healthier World Innovation Challenge, a $4.5 million initiative designed to steer digital health innovation to improve chronic health outcomes in underserved communities.
Overview
The Challenge is part of a larger, three-year digital health commitment by the Aetna Foundation to help address public health concerns. With the addition of the Challenge, the Aetna Foundation’s commitment to digital health will now total $5.7 million between 2014 and 2016.
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Digital Health Enabler SocialWellth Acquires Happtique
Las Vegas-based digital health enabler SocialWellth today announced the acquisition of Happtique, creators of the first mobile health app certification program for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will help expand Social Wellth's mWellth portfolio of prescriptive digital health solutions encompassing the total continuum of care.
Happtique was founded and wholly owned by GNYHA Ventures, the business arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association. The company suspended its mobile
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Blackberry, NantHealth Launches First Secure Cancer Genome Browser
Blackberry and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of NantHealth has announced the launch of the NantOmics Cancer Genome Browser™, the first secure clinical genome browser on the BlackBerry® Passport smartphone that places a super-computer and big data in the palm of a doctor’s hand. For the first time, doctors will have unprecedented access to patients’ genetic data to make the most informed treatment decisions at the bedside.
Cancer Genome Browser Platform Overview
Powered by BlackBerry’s
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Validic Expands Digital Health Ecosystem Reach to 100M
Validic, the healthcare technology interoperability platform for aggregating digital health data, announced today the addition of several new clients and partners, as they continue to expand and grow their global digital health ecosystem. With the addition of several new notable clients in healthcare and wellness, which include WebMD, Pfizer, UPMC, NexJ, and Medhost, Validic’s client population reach increased from 80 million to over 100 million lives in just the last few months. These
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6 Ways Digital Health Transformed Healthcare in 2014
Fard Johnmar, founder of Enspektos describes 6 major gifts digital health has granted doctors, patients, caregivers and others during 2014.
There's a lot of skepticism about the potential of digital health tools and technologies to transform health and medicine. A lot of it is warranted. We're still waiting for robust studies that help to prove that tools such as mobile applications and wearables can actually improve health and change behavior. The ones we have today are
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