52% of patients want to learn about advanced treatment opportunities from their own doctor—not the Internet. To help doctors learn about new, life-changing treatments for their patients, ePatientFinder has developed advanced algorithms to match physicians with treatments that are relevant to their patients, based on their existing EHR data.
This week, the Austin-based health technology announced it has raised $2.58 million in Series A equity financing led by Parsons & Whittemore alongside
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Imagine Health Raises $21M to Expand Benefits Model for Self-Insured Employers
Imagine Health, a provider of independent provider of high-performance provider teams has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Trident Capitaland HLM Venture Partners. The capital will be used to expand its transformative approach to healthcare into new markets, including immediate development activities in Phoenix,San Francisco and Atlanta. Imagine Health currently has high-performing hospital and physician teams—known as SmartCare™—in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque
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Aventura Nabs $14M to Accelerate EMR Workflow Optimization
Aventura, a provider of healthcare workflow optimization software solutions, today announced that it raised a $14 million Series C funding co-led by Safeguard Scientifics and Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI). Existing investors Excel Venture Management, HLM Venture Partners, and Memorial Care Innovation Fund also participated in the round. Aventura will utilize the capital to expand sales and marketing, business development, and customer support, as well as accelerate product
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Blueprint Health Reveals 7th Class of Digital Health Startups
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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