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Mercom: Global Digital Health/Health IT VC Funding Tops $2B in Q1 2019

by Fred Pennic 04/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Mercom: Global Digital Health/Health IT VC Funding Tops $2B in Q1 2019

Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health/health IT, including private equity and corporate venture capital, reach $2 billion in funding in Q1 2019, according to market research firm Mercom Capital. The Q1 2019 Digital Health (Healthcare IT) Funding and M&A Report reveals $2B in funding across 149 deals compared to $1.4B across 142 deals in Q4 2018. VC funding in Q1 2019 was down 19% compared to the same quarter of last year (Q1 2018) when nearly $2.5 billion was raised in 187
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Cityblock Raises $65M to Address Social Determinants of Health in Underserved Communities

by Fred Pennic 04/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Cityblock Raises $65M to Address Social Determinants of Health in Underserved Communities

Cityblock, a Brooklyn, NY-based company building sustainable, scalable systems that provide high-quality, cost-effective care for underserved populations with complex health needs has raised $65 million in Series B funding. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, 8VC (affiliate venture fund with Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina), Echo Health Ventures and StartUp Health including existing investors Sidewalk Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town
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Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle

by Richard A. Royer, CEO at Primaris Healthcare Business Solutions 09/24/2018 Leave a Comment

Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle

Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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Alphabet and Michael J. Fox Foundation Team Up to Use Verily Study Watch to Research Parkinson’s Disease

by Fred Pennic 05/09/2018 Leave a Comment

Michael J. Fox Foundation Uses Verily Study Watch to Research Parkinson's

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) and Verily Life Sciences LLC, an Alphabet company has announced a new collaboration on a two-year sub-study in Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative will include Verily Study Watch to add new dimension of health data. More than 800 participants will be equipped with Verily's multi-sensor investigational wearable device, to passively collect data on movement and physiologic and environmental measures continuously. The goal is to
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Google’s Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

by Jasmine Pennic 08/24/2015 Leave a Comment

7 Google Ventures Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare_Google's Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

After Google's announcement to restructure into Alphabet, Google has launched a Life Sciences company as the first new company under the Alphabet umbrella. "3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens -- an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health.  While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into -- a life sciences team with the mission to
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