Chicago based health tech incubator MATTER has added ten more startups to its membership bringing its total to 70 companies, Chicago Tribune reports. The recently launched incubator aims to collectively fuel the future of healthcare innovation in Chicago through mentorship, networking opportunities, partnerships with companies and affordable workspace.
The incubator also recently partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) to create the transformative health care innovation and
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Stanford, GE Ventures Launch Evidation Health to Validate Digital Health Tools
Today, GE Ventures and Stanford Health Care has announced the launch of Evidation Health, an independent digital health company focused on validating real-world clinical and economic evidence for digital health products and platforms.
According to digital health seed fund Rock Health, more than $4B was invested in over 250 digital health companies in 2014 alone. As this new breed of digital health tools and technologies enter the market, these new products have not been validated to provide
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Sharecare Acquires Behavioral Voice Analysis Technology
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Sharecare, a comprehensive digital health and wellness engagement platform has acquired Germany-based Feingold Technologies, a developer of behavioral voice analysis technology. The acquisition immediately expands Sharecare’s development resources, helping to accelerate growth and engagement of ultra-personalized and frictionless solutions that enable people to optimize their health. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Integration Plans
As part of the acquisition, Feingold
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ePatientFinder Raises $2.6M to Connect Patients with Clinical Trials
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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