Articles from July, 2013


Employer Direct Healthcare Welcomes Thomas Johnston as its New CEO

Market Wired  |  July 31, 2013

Category: Portfolio Companies

Employer Direct Healthcare, a leader in value-based healthcare that helps large, self-insured employers improve the quality of their employees planned medical procedures while reducing costs, is pleased to announce that Thomas D. Johnston, J.D., has been appointed as its new …

Will Health IT VC Funding Ever Slow Down?

Healthcare Informatics  |  July 26, 2013

Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital

Healthcare IT companies are receiving so much venture capital (VC) funding these days that Raj Prabhu has a slight problem. “The last three quarters have been record-setters, we’re like, ‘What other words can we use to describe it?” reveals Prabhu, …

mHealth To See Big Growth, Barriers

Healthcare IT News  |  July 24, 2013

Category: Sector Specific

The Research and Markets mHealth trends report shows the industry poised for a compound annual growth rate of 61 percent by 2017, to reach a value of $26 billion. This revenue, researchers project, will be derived predominantly from mHealth hardware …