Digital Health Startups

New York Digital Health Accelerator opens to packed house

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The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) held their coming out party on May 10th in NYC, hosting a packed house at TimesCenter, not to mention hundreds of interested onlookers via live streaming video. I had the opportunity to interview David Whitlinger, Director of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), about the program’s origin and how it will nurture the companies it selects. “… now you can have an entrepreneur who has a great idea for a software application, but [Read more]

Ryan Luce presents Corengi’s solution for clinical trial patient engagement

Ryan Luce presents Corengi’s solution for better engaging patients in clinical trials at Healthbox investor day.

EveryMove closes $2.6 million round, investors see potential in health rewards platforms

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EveryMove raises $2.6 million from Sandbox Industries to build a “mileage plan for health benefits” using passive data collection from smartphone apps.

Watch the DataDesignDiabetes Challenge Demo Day Live Wednesday May 16th #DDDemoDay

Sanofi-Aventis sponsored Data Design Diabetes Challenge will live broadcast demo’s from its five finalists Wednesday 5/16 live on their website.

Touch-free vital signs monitor launched by Sensiotec at #ATA2012

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Sensiotec launches the Virtual Medical Assistant UWB vital signs monitor featuring no patient contact with sensors, cuffs or pressure pads.

SwipeSense presents their Hygiene 2.0 solution at Healthbox Investor Day 2012

SwipeSense co-founders Yuri Malina (@ymalina) and Mert Iseri (@mhi) present their vision for clinical hygiene 2.0.

United Preference launches Tailored Spend, new currency for healthy incentives

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United Preference graduates from the Healthbox accelerator and formally launches their new currency for healthy incentives, Tailored Spend.

Medical price transparency service Castlight Health raises massive $100 million round

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Silicon Valley health IT startup Castlight Health (@castlighthealth) announced it has closed a $100 million Series D round, bringing their total capital raised to $181 million, leaving it poised for acquisitions or an IPO. Castlight has been pioneering the use of price transparency and comparison tools in health care, offering a B2B service that enables self-insured businesses to provide their employees with tools to compare costs and quality of a wide range of tests and procedures across providers. Castlight even [Read more]

First ever Startup Weekend devoted to health care

First ever Startup Weekend focused exclusively on health care will be held in Philadelphia June 1-3.

Finalists in Janssen care coordination challenge will be presenting on May 10th Demo Day

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Janssen Connected Care Challenge chooses three finalists to present live demos on May 10th.

Numera Health follows up BlueLibris acquisition with launch of HealthPort

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Numera Health closes acquisition of mobile PERS developer BlueLibris and launches new Numera HealthPort telemedicine portal.

New health accelerator provides entrepreneurs access to NY hospitals and HIE data

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The New York City Investment Partners (@NYCIF) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (@NYeHealth) announced the launch of the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) for early- and growth-stage digital health companies developing technologies for care coordination, patient engagement, analytics and message alerts for healthcare providers. The NYDHA is definitely taking a unique approach to the accelerator model, emphasizing its extensive network of providers across the State of New York and the role of the state health information exchange (HIE), the Statewide Health [Read more]