Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator has unveiled 10 new health IT companies selected to participate in the 2015 accelerator program. With the addition of these 10 healthcare startups, which comprise Health Wildcatters’ third class, the program’s portfolio totals 32 companies spanning the healthcare spectrum.
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with this group,” said Hubert Zajicek, Health Wildcatters CEO. “All the companies demonstrated viable solutions to some
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Bayer HealthCare Launches Digital Health Accelerator in Berlin
Bayer HealthCare has launched its own digital health accelerator program in Berlin, Germany called "Grants4Apps," selecting five digital health startups from around the globe that will advance their business ideas and technology in areas such as hormone tests, patient adherence, breathing patterns, clinical trials and vitamin deficiency. The selected five digital health startups will receive financial support of up to 50,000 Euro and will work out of the company's pharmaceutical division in
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Navigating Cancer Raises $10M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
Navigating Cancer, a web-based patient care and engagement solution for cancer programs has raised $10 million in funding led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund in syndicate with ORIX Healthcare Capital, including existing investor Rustic Canyon Partners. The capital will be utilized to expand its patient engagement platform and team.
Currently, Navigating Cancer partners with cancer programs nationwide and provides over a million cancer patients with a multi-faceted patient engagement
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Grand Rounds Nabs $55M for Connecting Patients to Expert Physicians
Grand Rounds, a care coordination startup that provides employees and their families expedited access to top physicians so they can achieve better health outcomes, has raised $55 million in Series C funding. The latest round includes global mutual fund investor, Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman. The funding will be used to add additional staff, care team and accelerate its care coordination platform to improve hospitals’ contact with patients between visits.
Evidence-based
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Zephyr Health Raises $17.5 M for Next Generation Solutions for Life Sciences
Zephyr Health, an enterprise solutions provider harnessing the power of Healthcare Data to address critical business and patient needs has raised $17.5 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Google Venture including existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Icon Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $33.5 million in funding.
Founded in 2011 by William King, Zephyr Health is the leading insights-as-a-service company harnessing the power of
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How BoardVitals is Building the Wikipedia for Medical Specialty Education
Medical recertification is expensive, considered to be arduous by physicians, and has yet to establish a recognizedcausal impact on patient outcomes. The backlash against themaintenance of certification (MOC) exams has largely been driven by physicians, thus creating a discourse that highlights their challenges, but missing is the perspective of patients, the end consumer in the healthcare chain.
As an increasing number of hospitals and insurance companies require recertification
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HealthBox Unveils Its Chicago Class of Digital Health Startups
Healthbox, a healthcare technology focused business accelerator has announced the brand new class of innovative health tech startups for its upcoming Chicago Studio. This will be Healthbox's fourth program in Chicago and fourteenth overall, where they have worked with 105 healthcare startups and invested in 85 to date. Since its inception in Chicago in 2012, Healthbox has contributed to a boom in the healthcare entrepreneurial movement in Illinois.
These startups were selected from over 120
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Livongo Health Uses Big Data to Advance Diabetes Care
Liaison Technologies, an industry-recognized leader in cloud-based integration and data management offerings, today announced that its ALLOY Health™ platform has been chosen by Livongo Health™ to speed adoption of Livongo’s chronic condition health management program. Liaison’s ALLOY Health platform will help integrate and normalize the exchange of patient information between Livongo and client health systems, making implementation easier and faster.
Livongo Health is a consumer digital
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Kareo Raises $55M to Expand Small Physician Practice EHR
Kareo, a cloud-based EHR provider for independent medical practices has closed $55.4 million in additional funding led by Montreux Equity Partners with participation from Silver Lake Partners and all of Kareo’s existing investors. This capital will finance the continued development of Kareo’s product line—which enables physicians to manage all major aspects of their practice—as well as expand the company’s market share. Montreux joins Kareo’s top-tier institutional investors, which
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Bright.md Raises $3.5M to Support Expansion of Virtual Healthcare
Portland, Oregon-based Bright.md, a developer of a virtual care solution to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in the delivery of care for non-acute conditions has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Co-founded in 2014 by Ray Costantini and Mark Swinth, Bright.md connects you to your provider from your home or on the go, using your home computer or mobile device. In under an hour, and for less than the cost of a co-payment, you can get treatment from the provider you know and
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