Digital health funding has reached $1.2B in Q3 2017, bringing the YTD total to $4.7B—surpassing the prior historic annual high of $4.6B in 2015, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The report, Q3 2017 Digital Health Funding Update reveals that there have been 268 digital health funding deals across 261 companies. Comparatively, 240 digital health venture deals had closed by the end of Q3 in 2016.Other key findings/insights from the latest Rock
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WebPT Acquires Rehab Therapy Patient Relationship Platform Strive Labs
WebPT, a rehab therapy software platform has acquired StriveHub, a Boston, MA-based patient relationship management (PRM) platform specifically designed for rehab therapy providers. For WebPT, the acquisition of StriveHub will enable PTs to deepen relationships with patients and improve their practices' bottom line Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Developed by two physical therapists, StriveHub enables providers to develop automated email campaigns, collect and act upon
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Healthcare Incubator MATTER Partners with Israeli Sheba Medical Center
MATTER, a Chicago-based healthcare incubator and corporate innovation accelerator has announced a partnership with Israeli-based Sheba Medical Center. The partnership between Chicago and Israeli healthcare innovation communities will focus on the commercialization of new digital health innovation for patients.As part of the international partnership, MATTER startups will have opportunities to pilot their technologies with Sheba Medical Center. The medical center has a highly developed innovation
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Medecision Acquires AxisPoint Health’s Platform Business, Will Migrate 50 Clients to Aerial PHM Platform
Medecision, a provider of population health management solutions for risk-bearing entities has acquired of over 50 clients from AxisPoint Health. The acquisition includes clients that currently use CCMS and VITAL, recently rebranded as AXIS. AxisPoint Health’s services businesses, including CarePoint, GuidePoint, and Analytix, are not included in this transaction and remain under management by AxisPoint Health. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Once the acquisition is closed,
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Dario Health Expands Smart Diabetes Platform to German Market
DarioHealth, an Israli-based global digital health company with mobile health and big data solutions has announced the expansion of its smart diabetes platform to the German market. The announcement makes the smart diabetes platform commercially available in 9 countries worldwide. The Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System combines an all-in-one compact glucose meter that connects directly to your smartphone via the Dario app to provide people with diabetes a simple and accurate way to improve
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Zynx Health Launches $20k Innovation Challenge for Prototype Using Zynx Clinical Content
Zynx Health, a provider of providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, today announced details of its two-phase Innovation Challenge Contest to encourage the exploration of new use cases that leverage Zynx clinical content to enhance the delivery of patient care and reduce clinical and financial variation. Zynx Health will award a total of $20,000 in prize money to the teams with the best concepts and prototype.Phase 1 of the Innovation Challenge Contest is open
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Boston Children’s IDHA Launch Secure “Task Manager” App for Clinical Teams to Avoid Burnout
Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) today unveiled Dock Health, a secure mobile and web application that gives clinicians and their teams an essential tool for managing the numerous tasks that are part of clinical care. Founded by Michael Docktor, MD and Keather Roemhildt , Dock Health received an accelerator grant from IDHA in 2016. As of early September, the app is being piloted in several Boston Children’s departments (Gastroenterology,
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Black Book Rankings: 50 Disruptive Health IT Companies to Watch
Black Book Rankings, a full-service healthcare-centric market research company, today unveiled their list of top 50 disruptive health IT companies. The companies were recognized by healthcare providers and payers attempting digital transformation and innovation efforts highlighted in Black Book’s recent 2017 Emerging Vendors survey. The selected health IT companies stood out above others because they offer some disruptive capability or opportunity and received top scores in the Black Book
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Novo Nordisk, HITLAB Launches $75k Challenge to Develop Voice-Activated Technology for Diabetes Care
Novo Nordisk has teamed up with HITLAB (Health Innovation Technology Lab, Inc.) to launch the 2017 HITLAB World Cup of Voice-Activated Technology in Diabetes presented by Novo Nordisk awarding prizes totaling $75,000. Managing diabetes requires strict adherence to dietary, physical activity, and medication protocols. For people living with diabetes, voice-activated technologies are an important way they can manage their disease. Innovators should focus on enhancing patient outcomes, lowering
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Sharecare Launches 3D Virtual Human Body Platform With Real-Time Medical Accuracy
Sharecare, the digital health company helping people manage all their health in one place, today announced the launch of YOU, its proprietary software platform that gives healthcare providers, educators, students and patients unprecedented visual context to discuss and accurately simulate healthy organ and system function, as well as disease, and therapy. Available starting today on Viveport, the HTC VIVE™’s global VR app store, Sharecare founders Jeff Arnold and Mehmet Oz, MD announced the
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