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

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps

22 hours ago by Brian Edwards

mHealth News

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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.

April’s first installment of the “Best of iMedicalApps”

Apr 20, 2012 by Cory Schultz

News

In this installment, we look at whether smartphones are distracting for clinicians, discuss the Lancet iPad journal app, and look at a cool new device that helps you track your fitness called the Nike Fuelband. Additionally, we demonstrate how easy it is to check out an iPad from a medical library, review an app that contains health advice for patients, and lastly, we show you the future of TEDMED.

Rex Strategic Innovation fund launched to advance medical technology in North Carolina’s Triangle region

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps

Apr 17, 2012 by Brian Edwards

mHealth News

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Rex Healthcare announces the launch of a $20 million health technology fund as part of a larger initiative to spur local innovation and job growth.

Are Smartphones Distracting Doctors?

Apr 04, 2012 by Perry Payne, MD/JD/MPP

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By: Perry W. Payne, Jr., MD/JD/MPP Doctor, what do you think? Doctor? Doctor? These are words uttered by a number of patients today as doctors use an increasing number of “screens” while simultaneously interacting with their patients. These screens offer access to mobile devices such as touchpads, smartphones, and laptop computers. During the already restricted time that patients have with doctors, they are now being asked to compete with such devices. The question for researchers, clinicians, hospital administrators, and most [Read more]

How Humana became a leader in mobile engagement, interview with Julie Kling

Jan 25, 2012 by Brian Edwards

mHealth News

There are few, if any, large corporations that use mobile technology to engage their customers as effectively as Louisville, KY-based health insurer Humana. The company’s Games 4 Health program is among the most innovative mobile health programs anywhere and the projects like B-Cycle are revolutionizing bike sharing and incentivizing healthy lifestyles. I recently had a chance to hear Julie Kling, head of mobile strategy for Humana, outline the company’s strategy during a panel discussion at the December mHealth Summit in [Read more]

Billionaire mHealth mogul trying too hard to be the Steve Jobs of health care

Sep 20, 2011 by Brian Edwards

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Patrick Soon-Shiong’s foray into mHealh has largely been met with glowing praise and very little critical review, which is crazy because he is a 60 year-old man trying to take on the millennial generation on their own turf.