September 6, 2017
A Breath of Fresh Air: An Oral History of Propeller Health
The path of a startup is rarely linear. The macro trends surrounding a technology can have a profound impact on its success or failure. In…
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September 6, 2017
Data Democratization Bridges Chasm in Healthcare Ecosystem
Healthcare represents a broader, deeper content set than any other domain by orders of magnitude. Healthcare costs represent 17.6 percent of GDP, which translates to…
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July 17, 2014
Diagnostics Company, Trice Medical, Raises $11.6M Series B Financing, Names CEO
Trice Medical, a private diagnostic company focused on micro invasive technologies, is pioneering needle-based diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for orthopedics. Today, we announced that Trice raised…
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July 10, 2014
Precision Medicine Data Platform, Syapse, Closes $10M Series B Financing
Managing ‘omics data—or the technologies used to explore the roles, relationships and actions of the various types of molecules that make up the cells of…
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January 17, 2014
Tomorrow’s Healthcare Innovation, Today’s Work at Safeguard
No industry is more ripe for change than healthcare in the America. Hindered by payer models that for too long rewarded procedures and prescriptions, healthcare…
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January 7, 2014
Point-of-Care Testing gains ground with BD’s acquisition of Alverix
In 2007, Alverix set out to revolutionize point-of-care (POC) testing–medical tests conducted in the doctor’s office, at a patient’s bedside, in a clinic or even…
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March 6, 2013
3 Ways Diagnostics Can Cut Healthcare Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes
According to the Institute of Medicine, $750 billion in healthcare spending was wasted in 2009. And while its rate of growth has slowed, healthcare spending…
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September 18, 2012
The Question Every Healthcare IT Startup Must Answer
When I started in the healthcare field more than 25 years ago, the only thing that a healthcare IT startup needed was a good idea — a new technology, maybe,…
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July 12, 2012
What health tech innovations will drive growth?
In the second quarter of 2012, the dollar value of venture capital deals was up, but the number of funds was down, according to data…
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