Medsphere raises $12 million for electronic health records

Medsphere raises $12 million for electronic health records

Turning the U.S.’s rickety paper-based system of health records into a state-of-the-art electronic one is no pretty task.

But someone’s got to do it.

Medsphere Systems Corporation, an open-source electronic health records provider, said it raised $12 million today to meet demand from hospitals racing to keep their… Continue Reading

Virtualization startup HyTrust launches with $5M backing

HyTrust, a startup that’s developed an appliance to provide a single point of control and oversight for virtual data centers, is launching its flagship product today. The Mountain View, Calif. company says its HyTrust Appliance will make companies more comfortable using virtualization to deploy their… Continue Reading

TriCipher raises $12M for secure logins

TriCipher, maker of software that assures the identity of users logging into online applications, just brought in $12 million in a fourth round of funding for further expansion. The San Mateo, Calif. company says it has already added 100 new clients in the past nine… Continue Reading

DEMOfall 08: SpinSpotter aims to clear up media bias

DEMOfall 08: SpinSpotter aims to clear up media bias

SpinSpotter is a new browser plug-in that hopes to arm online news junkies with the power of pointing out when the media has a dog in the fight.

It works like this: Users install the plug-in, which currently is only available to FireFox users, though an… Continue Reading

Freescale spins out its MRAM chip business

Freescale spins out its MRAM chip business

I wish my memory could get this kind of upgrade. Today, a new kind of chip memory is going to get a boost with the launch of a new venture spin-out company. If it succeeds, we’ll be carrying around much more responsive, instantly available portable… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Friday, Feb. 15, 2008

Life sciences briefing: Friday, Feb. 15, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Q Thera takes in $15M for neural stem-cell treatments (release)
Stroke clotbuster Concentric Medical withdraws IPO (IPOhome)
Avera recaps with $9M to relaunch human tests of GI drug (VentureWire)
Tissue repairer Nerites raises $5.7M (release)
Semafore Pharma aims for $7.5M to launch new cancer-drug trials (VentureWire)
Triage Wireless gets… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2007

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Teva acquires protein-therapeutic maker CoGenesys for $400M (release)
ViewRay takes in $25M for MRI radiation-therapy guidance (release)
NovaMed, Chinese clinical-research outfit, receives $14M (release)
Progentix Ortho raises first funding round (release)
Medical imaging co. Point Biomedical recaps with $25M (VentureWire)
Lumidigm takes in $7M for optical-fingerprint ID systems (VW)
Medical-software… Continue Reading