digital health startups

Simplee raises $6 million to extend its health care expense management platform

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Simplee, a Palo Alto-based medical billing management and payment portal that could be equated to the Mint.com for health care, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership and includes prior investors Greylock Partners Israel. Simplee has managed nearly half a billion dollars in medical expenses for members across thousands of medical providers. The company currently covers 80-percent of insurers in the US market, with the average user paying about $1,000/year via the platform.

Watch videos and vote for best finalist at Data Design Diabetes Challenge #DDDemoDay

Finalists in the Sanofi-Aventis sponsored DataDesignDiabetes Challenge present their products during the competition’s demo day at Blueprint Health.

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.

Cell phone lab strip reader another great innovation from Ozcan lab at UCLA

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The most recent smartphone attachment developed by Ozcan’s lab is a digital “universal” reader for all rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), such as home pregnancy tests, even drug and STD tests, which require no translation of the results

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.

Fibroblast accepted to Excelerate Labs Summer 2012 Class

Fibroblast, Chicago-based developer of appointment scheduling and cross-referral app for patients and physicians, is accepted to Excelerate Labs Summer 2012.

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.

Ginger.io is recruiting IBD and ulcerative colitis patients for clinical trial

Ginger.io is seeking adolescent Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis patients for a clinical trial of its passive sensing application.

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]