Blueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator has revealed its Winter 2015 Accelerator class (seventh class) of seven digital health startups to its portfolio. Blueprint is a member of TechStars’ Global Accelerator Network. Today's addition of seven companies brings the accelerator's total to 60 digital health with more than 140 entrepreneurs in Blueprint's alumni community.
To date, 85% of Blueprint's companies are still in operation and 85% of those companies
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Smart Glasses App Developer VitalMedicals Raises $925k
VitalMedicals, a San Francisco-based company developing smart software platform for surgical teams and hospitals, to improve operational efficiency and patient safety, has announced it has raised $925k in seed funding from professional angel investors and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The capital will allow the company to expand their technical team needed to continue building innovative smart glasses technologies for the hospital and beyond. Additionally, it will enable them to expand their pilot
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Kura MD Raises $1.5M To Expand Its Secure Telehealth Appointments Platform
Kura MD, a Roseville, CA-based developer of telehealth solutions for healthcare, announced it has raised $1.5 million in series A financing from Moneta Ventures to expand its physician network and telemedicine platform. Combined with its physician network, Kura MD's telemedicine platform enables convenient, secure, HIPAA compliant telehealth appointments between physicians and patients through a computer, smart phone or tablet 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The company plans to utilize
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AMA, MATTER Partner to Create Physician Office of the Future
The American Medical Association (AMA) and MATTER, Chicago's new health tech incubator, today announced a new partnership to create the trans formative health care innovation and technology-enabled "physician office of the future." The partnership includes creation of The AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER that will allow physicians, entrepreneurs, health care professionals and industry experts to test new models for health care delivery.
"New technologies by themselves are not
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StartUp Health Adds 6 Digital Health Startups to its Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced the addition of 6 new digital health startups to its global portfolio, bringing the total to 90 companies. The company now boasts the largest peer network of Healthcare Transformers and portfolio of digital health companies with nearly 200 entrepreneurs from companies in 8 countries and more than 45 cities. Other key stats as of January 2015 include:
- Total Raised to Date: $190
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Advance Health Raises $40M to Expand In Home Health Assessments
To improve healthcare, the next evolution of member care is necessary. In a study by The Physicians Foundation, 27 percent of Americans do not have a Primary Care Physician (PCP) and of those that do, 22 percent do not visit their PCP on a regular basis. Patients fail to follow care plans and medication guidelines, or do not to take the basic steps to care for themselves. The result: members are not engaged, care that is fragmented and providers and health plans do not have a complete picture of
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Tufts School of Medicine to Host Hackathon to Disrupt Medical Education
36-Hour collaboration between MedStart and Major League Hacking hosted at the Tufts University School of Medicine to pursue new tech projects in medical innovation and education.
The Tufts University School of Medicine will be hosting a weekend long Innovation Challenge (hackathon) testing some of the brightest minds in healthcare and across the country at MedStart, which is proud to be part of Major League Hacking (MLH) powered by Dell. The 36-hour collaboration will pair Tufts Med’s faculty
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Real Estate Developer to Raise $20M to Build Digital Health Startups in San Francisco
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, the largest owner and developer of real estate for the life-sciences industry in the nation wants to raise up to $20 million to build digital health startups in San Francisco, SFGate reports. Last year, the real estate developer announced that it would start three new accelerators nationwide to focused on agriculture, biotech and digital health. The biotech space is already up and running in New York City and has attracted giant pharma companies such as
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Mayo Clinic and Hillhouse Capital Group Form Joint Venture to Advance Healthcare in China
Healthcare innovation leader Mayo Clinic announced on Wednesday it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Hillhouse Capital, a long-term fundamental equities investment firm to advance the quality of health care in China. By combining Mayo Clinic’s patient care, medical research and education with Hillhouse’s China expertise and healthcare industry partnerships, the collaboration establishes a new company to improve health care delivery and efficiency in China.
“We are excited to
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Top 5 Digital Health Categories Poised for Growth in 2015
Is digital health an investment bubble set to burst? Rock Health’s Malay Gandhi weighs in.
The ball may have dropped on another new year, but 2014 was known as the year venture funding picked up the ball and ran for it— when it came to digital health. According to a recent report released by Rock Health, a record total of more than $4 billion was poured into the space last year, and it’s poised to keep on growing in 2015.
“This is not a bubble,” said Malay Gandhi, managing director
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