MD Insider, a big data healthcare innovator that significantly reduces healthcare costs for employers, today announced that it closed a $1.5 million investment - the largest online investment round ever raised on AngelList, the leading technology startup equity investing platform. The syndicate was led by renowned investor, Tim Ferriss, best-selling author and early investor/advisor to companies including Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and Uber. MD Insider is now the #1 most active company and the
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GE Healthcare Launches Health Innovation Village for Startups
Today GE Healthcare announced the official opening of Health Innovation Village, its first health tech startup campus located in Finland. Located at GE’s campus in Helsinki, the village was conceived by Didier Deltort and Mikko Kauppinen – country manager and finance manager at GE in Finland. Their goal is to turn the village into a leading centre of healthcare innovation.
The Health Innovation Village is already home to 20 health tech startups covering technology innovations that feed into
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5 HIPAA Hurdles for Health App Developers
What will it take for health app developers to achieve HIPAA compliance and protect your personal health data? Medable's CEO Dr. Michelle Longmire explains.
What happens when personal data pervades healthcare to the point that it requires HIPAA-compliant protections? That was the question asked ‘round the healthcare world when Apple released its HealthKit platform in September. While Apple is striving to connect its consumer products within the clinical world, app developers are both
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3 Finalists Named in Boston Children’s “Innovation Tank”
Boston Children’s Hospital today announced the three finalists selected to compete for $30k and investment advice from industry leaders in the hospital’s first “Innovation Tank” to be held Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at Boston Children’s Global Pediatric Summit + Awards, Taking on Tomorrow (#PedInno14), at the Seaport World Trade Center.
"Innovation Tank" Details
Sponsored by Phillips Healthcare, startups will pitch their business or product solution designed to improve pediatric care to a panel of
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TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Takes Digital Health Startups Seriously
Written by Ben Heubl, edited by Susan Williams
This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Conference in London presented the audience with more digital health innovation than ever before. Mike Butcher, Editor At Large at TechCrunch Europe expressed excitement at the increased tech startups emerging from Europe. The conference had a massive health angle, and as always, TechCrunch hackathons stimulated fantastic creativity towards building digital health solutions. Without further ado, behold these
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Welltok Nabs $25M to Optimize Consumer Health
Welltok, developer of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform, announced it closed on $25 million of a planned $37 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). Welltok will close out the round later this year with a select group of innovative organizations from across the healthcare industry. The new funds will be used to further accelerate the company’s impressive growth to-date and expand into new market segments as the industry moves to a more consumer-centric approach
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Health IT VC Funding Tops $956M in Q3 2014
Health IT VC funding reached $956 million in 212 deals in Q3 2014,a decline of 46 percent in terms of dollars compared to the massive $1.8 billion in 161 deals raised in Q2 2014, according to a new Mercom Capital Group report. However, Q3 2014 was still the second highest quarter for VC funding since 2010. Total VC funding year-to-date adds up to $3.6 billion.
Consumer-focused technologies received 65 percent of all VC investments in the third quarter of 2014, with $623 million
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StartUp Health Unveils Newest Class of 13 Healthcare Transformers
StartUp Health, a global startup platform accelerating innovation in health and wellness, today announced the addition of thirteen new companies to its portfolio, bringing the total to 84 companies. The new companies represent a diverse range of sub-sectors, from big data and medication adherence to patient engagement and nutrition and includes four international companies, four based in the Midwest, and eight female founders. The New York based accelerator has the largest portfolio of digital
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Merck Global Health Innovation Fund Pumps $5M in Exostar
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund announced a $5.0 million investment in Exostar to enable them to accelerate the growth and expansion of their healthcare and life science business. Exostar’s cloud-based authentication identity hub for the healthcare industry, Secure Access Manager (SAM), connects customers with other organizations securely across large communities of users. The investment, made by the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, will help Exostar maintain its rapid growth in these
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Why My Digital Health Startup Failed
Jeff Novich provides a rare and honest introspective look into why his digital health startup Patient Communicator, a patient portal CRM for doctors ultimately failed.
Editors’ Note: This article was originally published in January 2013 and has been republished with permission by the author.
My father is a primary care doctor. In 2009 he asked me to help build a product that would enable his patients to access him online rather than through the phone. Patient Communicator was basically a
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