What You Should Know: - A team of serial health tech entrepreneurs who sold their mobile EHR app to athenahealth has announced the launch of ed Fold Health, the first interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care. - Fold Health closed a round of $6M from former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO Anshu Sharma, Saama Technologies CEO Vivek Sharma along with Anand Chandrasekharan from General Catalyst, Mohanjit Jolly from Iron Pillar, Gokul Rajaram from Firebolt Ventures,
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Privileged Only: Is Digital Health Tech A Solution for Elites?
Healthcare disruptors are betting the farm on digital health technology, and they have the funds to validate their enthusiasm. Investments in digital health startups came in at a staggering $8.1B at the end of 2018, marking an increase of 42% from 2017. While investments are slowly beginning to level out in 2019, analysts see this as a sign that the industry is maturing; not, as some thought, as a signal of pending collapse.
Health tech has been touted as the cure-all for financial
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Video: 2011 mHealth Summit Day One Highlights
The 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. kicked off with an opening keynote from Eric J. Topol, MD, WWHI and Kathleen Sebelius, US Dept of Health & Human Services. In her key note, Sebellius stated, "in the iTunes store alone, there are nearly 12,000 apps related to health." The video below provides some key highlights of Kathleen Sebelius discussing mHealth and its role in the larger landscape of national healthcare. 300 exhibitors including tech giants and startups lined the
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HIMSS Announces its Mobile Counterpart, mHIMSS
Last week, HIMSS announced it's mobile counterpart, mHIMSS a new platform dedicated to progress leadership on technology, security, and implementation surrounding mHealth. The subgroup site, mHIMSS , www.mhimss.org is scheduled for launch the last week in November according to mHIMSS Senior Editor Edna Boone. mHIMSS is an opportunity specificially for HIMSS members to access resources, tools, events, and engagements that embrace progress within the mobile and wireless technologies in
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