Editor's Pick Will the Sand Hill Road firms open their check books for you? We caught up with Sequoia Capital's Warren Hogarth and Morgenthaler Ventures' Missy Krasner to dig deeper into their investment thesis.
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.
Entrepreneurs enrolled in the accelerator will get $20,000 in seed capital to help jumpstart new digital health businesses.
Funding for digital health startups skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013, according to a newly released report.
Guest Post Over the next decade, the healthcare system will need to adapt to the influx of baby boomers, many of whom will have chronic diseases and need continued care.
The digital health company is launching a web app for scheduling doctor's appointments, which will compete with ZocDoc.
Sources are telling us that chronic disease management startup WellDoc is looking for a buyer.
Editor's Pick A lack of clarity from government is stifling innovation in the health IT sector.
For the next office hours on March 28, we're extending the invite to health and med-tech startup founders.
Editor's Pick Futurist and entrepreneur Michael Vassar has a bone to pick with the U.S. medical system. He hopes to "humiliate" it into providing better quality care by creating a "product that works better than the system."
Inside Practice Fusion, a fast-growing health IT startup where employees receive free Fitbits and Yoga classes.
Epocrates Inc., a medical applications company based in Silicon Valley, is being scooped up by AthenaHealth for $293 million.
Atlanta-based WebMD, the primary source of medical information on the Web, will cut 250 jobs in the coming month as part of an ongoing effort to save $45 million per year.
SecondMarket has teamed up with digital health accelerator Startup Health for the month of December to encourage its network of accredited investors to fund health tech startups.
The experience of waiting on a line at your chaotic, paper-filled medical practice may be a thing of the past.
Athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass., maker of health IT systems for billing and management of electronic health records, filed to raise as much as $86.25 million in an initial offering. The company’s SEC filing is here.
Athenahealth’s systems work as Web-based …
(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 …
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 …
