health information technology

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

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14 days ago by
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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]

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

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19 days ago by
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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]

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

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Apr 17, 2012 by
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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.

Best apps for heart health awarded by federal ONC Director Farzad Mostashari

Apr 12, 2012 by
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ONC Director Farzad Mostashari, MD announces winners of the Heart Healthy Challenge at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Conference in Chicago.

Action and optimism from US CTO Todd Park at Healthbox demo day

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Apr 10, 2012 by
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Todd Park (@todd_park), newly appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Federal government, gave an inspiring keynote address at Healthbox investor day in Chicago this week. Park, co-founder of athenahealth in 1997, is clearly very passionate about entrepreneurs and a big believer in the entrepreneur’s ability to effect tremendous disruption through invention. There has never been a better time than right now to be an entrepreneur in American health care due to big shifts in the marketplace, specifically incentive change, and [Read more]

Sensei announced winner of $100K CardioEngagement Challenge at HIMSS

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Mar 01, 2012 by
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Sensei (@senseiinc) was announced the winner of the $100K Novartis CardioEngagement Challenge. Sensei’s mobile application suite is described on the challenge website as a fully featured health and wellness program. Using the mobile phone as a tracking system and educator, Sensei offers a holistic approach, integrating modules for healthy eating, fitness, weight management, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. Patients can track their health over time and even receive financial incentives in the form of coupons and promotions to drive motivation and [Read more]

HealthBridge Health Information Exchange deployed for greater Cincinnati area

Nov 22, 2011 by
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While electronic medical records have many benefits, they are often limited by the fact that different EMR’s do not communicate with each other. Even with the consolidation of healthcare in many areas within a few large systems, if a patient goes between an Epic-system and an Allscripts-system, they are still out of luck. That, however, is set to change thanks in part to provisions in HITECH and promotion of health information exchanges. In the Cincinnati area, two hospitals that are [Read more]

Rock Health index of digital health startups

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Nov 17, 2011 by
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Rock Health, the San Francisco health care incubator, has published a great list of digital health startups on their website that deserves to be shared.

Health care reform uncertainty could delay health IT investment

Nov 29, 2010 by
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Litigation in Viriginia could have a disastrous impact nationally on the transformational movement underway in healthcare IT.

5 Reasons Why Health Information Technology Needs an Apple Inc.

Aug 17, 2010 by
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How the health care field could benefit if a company followed Apple’s Paradigm

Verizon enters health information technology with cloud based information exchange

Jul 16, 2010 by
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Verizon is planning a cloud based services for clinical providers to securely exchange health information. Features will include a clinical dashboard, record locator service, cross-enterprise patient index and clinical messaging.