On late Tuesday this week, Dallas-based telehealth provider, Teladoc filed a confidential draft registration form for an initial public offering (IPO) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), WSJ reports. Founded in 2002, the company emerged as an early leader in the growing telehealth space as self-insured employers and insurance companies look for ways to cut healthcare costs by providing a video visits platform for doctors and patients.
The company has raised more than $100
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Cox Enterprises Invests In Diabetes Management Platform Rimidi
By the year 2050, one in three Americans will have Diabetes. To help relieve the anxiety and simplify the management of diabetes. Cox Enterprises has announced a strategic investment in Atlanta-based Rimidi, a digital health company focused on diabetes and other chronic conditions. The funding will be utilize to accelerate expansion of their enterprise diabetes management solution and further expansion into additional markets.
Rimidi’s flagship product, Diabetes+Me is a cloud-based enterprise
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Independence Blue Cross, TowerView Health Launches Medication Adherence Pilot Program
The Independence Blue Cross (Independence) Center for Health Care Innovation announced this week that it will collaborate with TowerView Health and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) on a pilot program to help chronically ill people who have multiple prescriptions make sure they take the right medication at the right time each day.
Pilot Details
People with health coverage from Independence Blue Cross who qualify for this study and choose to
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Doximity Rolls Out “Apply Using Doximity” Tool for Physicians
Doximity, the leading online medical network with over 50 percent of all US doctors as members, announced a new, instant method for physicians to apply for career opportunities — “Apply Using Doximity.” With one click, Doximity members can quickly submit their verified online profile as a curriculum vitae (CV) for an open job opportunity, and a recruiter will reach out to the physician directly.
Eighty seven percent of physicians are open to new jobs, and yet the application process is
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Ginger.io, WiserCare Named HX360 Innovation Challenge Winners
HX360 announced that digital health companies Ginger.io and WiserCare were the winners of the inaugural HX360 Innovation Challenge competition. The competition recognizes the best-in-class digital health companies demonstrating improved patient experience in hospital and health system settings. The winning companies were selected from an original field of eighty-three entries, with the four finalists presenting their solutions live before a judging panel during the HX360 Innovation Challenge
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Validic Raises $12.5M To Accelerate Digital Health Ecosystem
Validic, a leading digital health platform for aggregating health data, announced today that it has secured a $12.5 million Series B round led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente. The additional capital will be used to build out their team, product offerings, client and device reach.
In the current healthcare environment, many companies are trying to solve the problem of integrating, managing and updating connections to the rapidly expanding
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Health Wildcatters 2014 Startup Class Raises $4.5 Million
Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator, announced that its second class of startups has collectively raised $4.5 million since the program ended in late November. The fundraising results from this class are similar to those from Health Wildcatters’ first class, which raised $4.6 million within six months of the program.
Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, seed funding and other business resources to the 10-15 healthcare-focused startups that
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Rock Health Expands to NYC, Announces 3 New Investments
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare is expanding to the East Coast with the opening of a brand new office in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of NYC. In conjunction with the new NYC office, Rock Health also announced it has added three new East Coast companies to its portfolio. These companies will join Rock Health's existing portfolio of East Companies: Aptible (NYC), Cardiio (Boston), Docphin (NYC), Kit Check (DC), Neumitra
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Blueprint Health Debuts 7th Class of Startups at Demo Day in NYC
Blueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator today announced the showcase of their Winter 2015 class of startups at their seventh annual Demo Day in NYC. The Winter 2015 Accelerator class is composed of seven new companies solving a diverse set of problems in the health industry. As with our previous classes, these companies are attacking difficult problems for large health stakeholders, selling mostly B2B solutions, although in this class there are a number of B2C
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TowerView Health Wins Venture+ Forum Pitch Competition
Medication adherence startup TowerView Health was the winner of the 9th annual Venture+ Forum pitch competition for startup companies. A total of fifteen startup companies were selected to deliver live pitch presentations to a panel of investors and healthcare industry leaders, as part of HIMSS15 held last week in Chicago.
TowerView Health offers the first end-to-end solution to help chronically ill patients manage complex medication schedules. Patients using TowerView's service receive a
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