Startup ConsultingMD has raised $10 million to enable patients to reach the country’s leading medical specialists for second opinions delivered online. Read more »
Seasoned entrepreneurs and investors in health technology give emerging startups a dose of advice. Read more »
Aberdare Ventures hires a new partner to support its focus on “transformational” health investing. Read more »
Electronic health records company athenahealth is partnering with Mashery to encourage developers to create new apps on its service. Read more »
Electronic medical records startup Practice Fusion is launching a new patient-facing website for booking appointments with doctors across the country. Read more »
A time-tested tool for monitoring children’s health is getting a redesign for the digital age thanks to a Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital partnership with design firm Fjord. Read more »
Health tech entrepreneurs and a report released this week look at ways to bridge knowledge and behavior gaps in health technology. Read more »
What does the boom in digital health mean for the health care industry overall? As a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report lists the top issues in health care, we take a look the ways in which technology could shape the industry in the coming year. Read more »
The rise of electronic health records, other digital health platforms and connected devices has made healthcare more vulnerable to security breaches almost any other industry, according to a recent investigation by The Washington Post. Read more »
Hello Health, a New York subsidiary of Quebec-based Myca Health, on Monday announced that it had raised $11.5 million from First Generation Capital to help physicians bring their patients’ information online with its electronic health records platform. Read more »
By accessing and combining publicly-available datasets, health innovators are letting patients and others view connections between physicians. The so-called “DocGraph,” as one hacktivist calls it, could give patients a valuable window into who their doctors trust. Read more »
In a study released Thursday, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that more than half of smartphone owners consult their devices for medical information and one-fifth of them say they have downloaded a health app. Read more »
Ten forward-looking health tech startups pitched Wednesday at the DC to VC showcase in San Francisco, an annual event bridging Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Take a look at three companies that won the judges’ and audiences’ endorsement. Read more »
Ginger.io, an up-and-coming Boston area health IT startup, is opening an office in San Francisco. The company, which grew out of MIT, will retain its Cambridge, Mass. headquarters but morph into a bi-coastal effort, according to CEO Anmal Madan. Read more »
Blueprint Health, a startup accelerator and co-working space based in New York, is announcing Thursday its ten picks for the accelerator’s latest class of startups. Read more »
