Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation services firm, today announce that we are now accepting applications for their 2018 Healthbox Studio. The five-day program is dedicated to advancing digital health solutions through peer-to-peer collaboration, speaker sessions, and fostering relationships with the Healthbox team as well as healthcare leaders, investors, and industry partners. Although Healthbox no longer hosts traditional accelerator programs, we are committed to supporting
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5 Digital Health Innovation Trends That Will Matter in 2018
In December 2016, many were suggesting that wearables were dead. Fitbit’s stock price was rapidly dropping. Apple Watch sales had declined for two consecutive quarters and Pebble had just been acquired in a fire sale.What a difference a year makes. Today, Apple Watch is poised to become the world’s best selling wearable. And, the market is quickly diversifying as hearables (once again led by Apple) and clinical wearables gain importance.The lesson is clear. As we look toward 2018, it’s more
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Healthcare Incubator MATTER Partners with Israeli Sheba Medical Center
MATTER, a Chicago-based healthcare incubator and corporate innovation accelerator has announced a partnership with Israeli-based Sheba Medical Center. The partnership between Chicago and Israeli healthcare innovation communities will focus on the commercialization of new digital health innovation for patients.As part of the international partnership, MATTER startups will have opportunities to pilot their technologies with Sheba Medical Center. The medical center has a highly developed innovation
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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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Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund Invests $1M In Redox to Leverage EHR API Integration
Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has received $1 million in strategic follow-on funding from Intermountain Innovation Fund, a strategic investment vehicle of Intermountain Healthcare. The additional $1 million closes the company's Series B round to $10 million. The Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund is managed by Healthbox , a platform for healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship that works with healthcare organizations to advance their
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StartUp Health, Allianz Partner to Co-develop Custom Healthcare Innovation Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced a three-year partnership with global insurance provider Allianz to co-develop a Custom Innovation Portfolio of at least two dozen companies. Over the next three years through strategic calls for innovations, both companies will focus on solutions to critical health issues on individual, community and global levels.Specific themes for the Portfolio will be later announced after a Call for
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize in Innovate Health Tech
Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC's health technology sector.
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Health IT Innovation? Not Without Open Platforms
When will provider organizations demand open platforms to unleash health IT innovations for patients and providers?
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Scanadu Scout, Medical Tricorder Shatters Indiegogo’s Crowdfunding Record
Scanadu announced on Twitter today that their device, Scanadu Scout, the first medical tricorder has become the most funded Indiegogo campaign with over $1.3 million in funding.
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7 Fundable StartUp Ideas that will Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
Digital health startUp accelerator, Rock Health shares 7 fundable startup ideas that would transform healthcare
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