The National Football League (NFL), which we spotlighted on major support of the FNIH on TBI research [TA 7 Sept] is using technology to observe football players on the sidelines and reinforce the role of trainers on the scene. In… Read moreTechnology catching injury earlier in NFL (US)
Independa, the San Diego-based developer of the Artemis telehealth monitoring system and Angela social engagement/telecare platform, announced the launch of its pilot with LG announced at International CES this past January. LG’s Pro:Centric Healthcare TVs will run the cloud-based Angela… Read moreIndependa goes LG TV; adds $1 million in funding
AirStrip Technologies, developer of patient monitoring software, announced a $10 million funding from the UK-based Wellcome Trust charitable foundation. This will likely be dedicated to the development of the AirStrip platform to facilitate accessing and querying data housed in EHRs,… Read moreAirStrip gains $10 million from Wellcome Trust (US/UK)
A recent change that escaped your Editors (and even the all-seeing Gimlet Eye), even as the weather changes, is the digital health influencer Eric Topol, MD’s quiet departure from the board of the West Health Institute at the end of… Read moreEric Topol steps down from West Health (US)
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) awarded one of its two ‘Small Business of the Year’ Innovation Entrepreneurship Awards to telecare, video and socialization system GrandCare Systems. The Awards recognize entrepreneurs leading businesses with revenues under $30 million and the contributions… Read moreCEA names GrandCare Small Business of the Year (US)
Rather surprising in their synchronicity were two new reports–the first from research company Frost & Sullivan, the second an academic study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)–detailing problems and concerns with mobile health from the perspective of… Read moremHealth challenges: two perspectives
Some good news on the US funding front for early-stage and second round companies: New York funding eight startups: Announced at this week’s New York eHealth Collaborative conference was the formation of the New York Digital Health Accelerator, which is… Read moreSome good news on the telehealth funding front
Blueprint Health, the NYC-based healthcare tech accelerator and mentoring center, held their ‘Demo Day’ featuring its current class of nine startups last Thursday (repeated today at the Health 2.0 National conference in San Francisco). Many of these were also previewed… Read moreInvestor alert: sit in on pitches by nine health startups
Back when the weather was warm, we reported on MedStartr as the first crowdfunding platform for healthcare [TA 30 July] and how startups can use it to their advantage. In fact, MedStartr crowdfunded its own party project, Healthcare Revolution: SF,… Read moreCrowdfunding catching on for healthcare (US)
The Gimlet Eye marvels at the billows of corporate fog rolling across the moors of this interview with Pfizer’s Kristin Peck in McKinsey Quarterly . Soggy phrases like ‘we are now reaching an inflection point’, ‘society-wide discourse on the future… Read moreReading for a wet afternoon: Pfizer inflecting 'connected health'
