How we can realize Health IT’s full potential by looking at its setbacks
Guest Post Electronic Health Records as they stand are preventing medical professionals from diving deep into Health IT. But there's a way to turn it around.
DocuTAP taps into $11.9M to save lives using software
May 2, 2013 9:59 AM
Rebecca Grant
DocuTAP has raised $11.9 million from Bessemer Venture Partners for its software that streamlines workflow in urgent care clinics.
Qpid gets $3M to make electronic health records easy-to-use
March 20, 2013 4:56 PM
Meghan Kelly
Qpid believes they can help improve doctor productivity by making the new electronic health records system much easier to use.
Cloud-based health record company CareCloud reports tripling revenues
February 22, 2013 2:55 PM
Matt Marshall
CareCloud, a company that offers a cloud-based electronic health record company, says it tripled its growth last year -- helped by the U.S. government mandate that doctors be fully transiitoned to electronic records by 2014. It's the latest example of the tech revolution hitting health care....
Secure cloud services are a silver lining in the perfect storm facing healthcare providers
Guest Post In a field where handwriting notes on paper charts and managing large rooms filled with filing cabinets have been the accepted practices for decades, healthcare providers are being deluged by a perfect storm.
QuantiaMD lands $12M for its doctors-only social network
October 30, 2012 5:30 AM
Christina Farr
QuantiaMD, the website and mobile app for doctors to brainstorm and collaborate on tricky cases, has raised $12 million in venture capital funding.
Avado turns health care into continuous care
In ancient China, doctors were paid to keep their patients well. If a patient fell ill, the doctor didn’t get paid until they got better. We have gotten used to being continuously connected, so why does healthcare still revolve around …
Paying doctors to use digital records — Medicare finally does the right thing
Digital health records would be a great thing for the U.S. healthcare system, should doctors and hospitals ever adopt them widely. (Among other things, they’d likely cut down on medical errors and improve the quality of medical care.) Yet only …
Review of a preview: Google Health
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No sooner does the NYT run a significant piece on health-info efforts at Google and Microsoft than someone decides to leak the “preview” of the site to Google Blogoscoped. (Site author Philipp Lenssen confirms that it …
Google vs. Microsoft in healthcare records
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Venture capitalists are throwing scads of money at online health-information startups, figuring that at least one of them might eventually emerge a powerhouse in community-building, health-related search, electronic medical records, or even some combination of the …
Roundup: Biogenerics bill in limbo, clashing data on health IT benefits, the RNAi boom, and more
House-Senate confrontation set over biogenerics – Late last month, a key group of senators reached agreement on legislative provisions that would authorize copycat versions of biotech drugs, which are typically complex proteins manufactured by genetically engineered cells (see details here …
HealthCare.com joins the online-healthcare stampede, raises $6.1M
(UPDATED with additional information on the fundraising, venture interest in the online healthcare-info sector, and a note of caution about these new ventures.)
You can’t swing a dead cat among venture businesses these days without hitting a new online …
Andy Grove's placebo pill for U.S. healthcare
Having survived prostate cancer and now facing a mild form of Parkinson’s disease, former Intel chairman Andy Grove has turned his analytical eye on the increasingly dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system.
Unfortunately, his recommendations are disappointingly small-scale and reflective of the …
