On Wednesday, AARP unveiled the ten finalists companies for its fifth Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch event which will be held Wednesday, April 27, at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Ten health tech startups focused on caregiving were selected from over 200 applicants to pitch their businesses at this unique one day dual-pitch event. AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch is a one day pitch competition for emerging startups in the healthy living space with a focus on caregiving.The
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Health Tech Accelerator Relevant Health Showcases Inaugaral Class of Startups
Relevant Health, a five month Rockville, MD-based health technology accelerator announced the showcase of their inaugural 2016 class of startups at their first annual Demo Day held at the Rockville Innovation Center. The first class of health tech startups is composed of seven startups solving a diverse set of problems in the healthcare industry from digital therapeutic software system for self-managing gestational diabetes (Werbie) to providing a predictive analytics platform to determine the
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Honor HomeCare Lands Partnership to License American Cancer Society’s Proprietary Care Guidance
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the American Cancer Society to license it's proprietary care guidance. As part of the partnership, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the American Cancer Society's information detailing how to deliver that care to their clients at home through the Honor Care Pro App. Launched in spring 2015, Honor is the home-care solution that helps older adults continue to live and age in their own homes with greater joy,
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Bivarus Nabs $2M for Patient-Centered Analytics Platform
Bivarus, a patient-centered analytics company working with healthcare organizations to measure and analyze the patient experience, announced it has raised $2 million in funding co-led by Hatteras Venture Partners and Excelerate Health Ventures. The oversubscribed round also included participation from NueCura Partners of Nashville, Tenn. and Boston Millennia Partners of Boston, Mass.
The Raleigh-Durham-based startup was born of their academic research around the patient experience, which
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Telehealth Startup CirrusMD Nabs $1M for “Closed Loop” Virtual Care
Denver, CO-based telehealth startup CirrusMD has raised $1.05 million in funding led by New York Angels, Rockies Venture Club, Sand Hill Angels and Three Leaf Ventures, BusinessDen first reports. The funding will be utilize to expand their development and sales team.
Founded in 2012, CirrusMD’s HIPAA-compliant platform allows value-based healthcare organizations to offer secure text messaging, image sharing and telehealth video visits with patients via mobile devices and web browsers. The
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Constant Therapy Raises $2M for Customized Brain Rehab Apps
Constant Therapy, a Boston-based innovator of science-based, customized brain rehabilitation apps announced it has raised $2 million in Series A funding led by Golden Seeds. The round included participation from Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital and Community Health Network of Connecticut. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the scientific research, data, marketing and development behind its product.
Constant Therapy provides victims of brain trauma —
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Digital Health Startup Oncora Medical Raises $1.2M for Radiation Oncology Platform
Oncora Medical, a Philadelphia-based digital health startup developing software to transform the way physicians treat cancer with radiation has raised $1.2M in seed financing from San Francisco-based iSeed Ventures, Philadelphia-based BioAdvance, and well-known medical physicist and entrepreneur, Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie.
Proceeds from the financing will be used to build out their engineering team in Oncora’s Philadelphia headquarters and accelerate early product installations with leading
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Scrypt Acquires HIPAA-Secure Messaging App DocbookMD
Scrypt, Inc., a leader in helping healthcare and lending customers streamline paper-intensive processes has completed the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based DocbookMD, a HIPAA secure patient care team collaboration platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
DocbookMD allows providers to send HIPAA-secure messages containing patient information and images such as X-rays, EKGs or photos from anywhere. Providers can set a 5 or 30 minute priority on a message and be
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Health Catalyst Pulls In $70M to Accelerate Outcomes Improvement
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics solutions and outcomes improvement has raised $70M in Series E funding. The funding round was co-led by Norwest Venture Partners, the lead investor in three previous rounds, and UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer that is also a Health Catalyst customer. . Other contributors to the round were new investors Leerink Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Sands
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UPMC Invests $35M into medCPU for Clinical Decision Support
UPMC and medCPU Inc. has announced a strategic partnership in which UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems, will take a majority interest in this technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
As part of this transaction, UPMC has commenced a tender offer to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders and expects to hold
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