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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.

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]

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

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

SwipeSense presents their Hygiene 2.0 solution at Healthbox Investor Day 2012

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

New Patient Safety Government App Challenge

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently opened a new app challenge focused on patients safety appropriately called the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge. The challenge stems from a 2011 Institute of Medicine Report, The Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, which among other things, recommended voluntary adverse event reporting using a format developed by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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]

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]

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

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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.

Rock Health partners with Kauffman Foundation to make expert workshops available to public

Mar 21, 2012 by
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By Rebecca Coelius Rock Health, the digital health seed accelerator in San Francisco, has partnered with the Kauffman foundation to disseminate information critical to health startups. Through the support of the Kauffman Foundation, everyone can now take advantage of Rock Health’s ongoing workshops spanning issues relevant to all digital health startups, such as fundraising, HIPAA compliance, and building effective user interfaces. These sessions, led by digital health luminaries and other experts, will be filmed and published online in a new [Read more]

Nuance Healthcare announces winners of Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge

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Mar 08, 2012 by
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Nuance Healthcare (@NUAN_Healthcare) announced SparrowEDIS, developed by Montrue Technologies, as the grand prize winner of their 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge at HIMSS. SparrowEDIS is an emergency department information system for the iPad that allows doctors and nurses to dictate the clinical narrative at the point-of-care through Nuance Healthcare-powered voice recognition technology. With the added layer of medical voice recognition, clinicians can also check for prescription interaction issues, create prescription orders, and share discharge instructions at the bedside all through [Read more]