Boomtown, a startup accelerator that nurtures selected startups through a 12-week mentoring program, and the National Health Council (NHC), a patient advocacy umbrella organization, have announced a three-year agreement to work in collaboration to select and accelerate approximately 20 early-stage digital health startups that are building patient-centric products and services related to healthcare.The NHC is a nonprofit association of national health-related organizations, including leading
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Cedars-Sinai Healthcare Accelerator Unveils Third Class of 10 Digital Health Startups
Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai, today announced the 10 digital health startups selected to participate in its third class. From artificial intelligence to new devices and disruptive services, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program.The three-month accelerator will offer mentorship and guidance from clinicians & administrators at Cedars-Sinai,
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Marketware Raises $4.5M for Physician Relationship Management Platform
Marketware, a Cottonwood Heights, UT-based provider of SaaS healthcare relationship management technology has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding led by EPIC Ventures. In addition to the Series B funding round, the company has appointed Alex Obbard as the company’s CEO.Obbard brings more than 25 years' experience in all areas of revenue and profit generation for technology organizations, with significant experience driving SaaS-based sales growth. Most recently, Obbard served as SVP of Sales
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AARP, Rock Health Launch 2017 Aging in Place $50K Challenge
AARP Foundation and Rock Health, a provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs are launching the 2017 Aging in Place $50K Challenge. Digital health startups interested in the 2017 Aging in Place Challenge have the chance to earn a $50,000 cash prize and work with AARP Foundation to improve the lives of vulnerable seniors by addressing issues that help to reduce unnecessary healthcare services, costs, and hospital readmission rates—especially as described in the CMS 30-day
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10 Best Practices for Executing Successful M&A Deals in Healthcare IT
Over the past couple of years, there have been around 200 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the healthcare IT space, driven by high enterprise value and the sheer size of the industry. 49 deals came together in the first quarter of this year alone. These numbers make health IT the highest performing industry in terms of M&A activity in the consumer and retail space, and the second highest in the infrastructure/industrial space.Between 2018 and 2019, we will see an insatiable need for
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Healthbox Unveils 2017 Healthbox Studio Cohort to Support Entrepreneurial Innovation
Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation services firm, today announced the cohort of the 2017 Healthbox Studio program to support and advance entrepreneurial innovation. The Healthbox Studio is a five-day program dedicated to fostering relationships between emerging digital health startups and industry leaders through presentations, workshops, and mentor sessions from the Healthbox team and other industry leaders.Ten early stage digital health startups are selected from an
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Private Equity Firm Acquires Pharmacy Automation Provider Capsa Healthcare
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (“LLCP”), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm has acquired Capsa Healthcare, a provider of mobile workstations, medication management products, and pharmacy automation solutions for healthcare settings. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Formed through the integration of Capsa Solutions, Rubbermaid Healthcare, and Kirby Lester, Capsa Healthcare develops and manufactures Point-of-Care Workstations, Medication Management Solutions, and
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Boston Children’s Hospital Launch $250k Pediatric Medical Device Challenge
The Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Boston Pediatric Device Consortium (BPDC) has announced the launch of Boston Pediatric Device Strategic Partner Challenge to advance the development of novel pediatric medical device innovations. This national Challenge will award up to $250,000 in grants and access for entrepreneurs and innovators with ideas and inventions that address the need for advances in pediatric medical device development.
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doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated (“doc.ai”), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup building an advanced natural language processing technology platform for quantified biology has raised $2.3 million in pre-ICO (initial coin offering) or initial sale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens ("SAFTs"). A total of ten purchasers acquired SAFTs led by Pantera Capital.The early pre-sale of doc.ai's SAFTs, which are convertible into digital tokens named Neurons ("NRNs"), was limited to existing investors
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DispatchHealth Wins Adventist Health System’s 3rd Annual InnovationX Competition
DispatchHealth has been named the winner of Adventist Health System’s (AHS) third annual InnovationX competition. DispatchHealth presented an in‐home care delivery platform and triage system designed to provide right‐sized care, while addressing the health care needs of the consumer and the access challenges of the at‐risk patient.DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile and virtual health care that works to create an integrated, convenient, high-touch care delivery solution that extends the
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