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Articles from the Healthcare Category
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, …
7 Predictions for the Future of Health Care Technology
Venturebeat | June 23, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
I’ve got an awesome job. Every day, I envision the future of healthcare and strategize how innovative technologies can transform how we give and receive care and, ultimately, make the world a happier and healthier place.
Will Silicon Valley’s Confident Technologist Investors Save Healthcare?
Forbes | June 22, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Venture Capital
“Every interaction in every area related to health is just so sh*tty,” explains Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook FB +1.86% executive and founder of the VC firm Social+Capital Partnership. “The software is crap, the services are crap, the people are …
Top 10 Healthcare Trends in 2013
The Camden Group | January 1, 2013
Category: Healthcare
The move to fee-for-value continues, and 2013 will prove to be a transformational year as healthcare organizations transition into a new era in healthcare. There will be budget constraints, new care models, shortages of clinicians, and the expansion of Medicaid …
VC in 2013: Robert More of Frazier Healthcare on Our ‘Broken System’
Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2012
Category: Healthcare, Venture Capital
As 2012 comes to a close, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2013. Continuing our series is Robert More, general partner at life sciences investment firm Frazier Healthcare.
A Looming U.S. Doctor Shortage
September 27, 2012
Category: Healthcare
When the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandate takes effect in 2014, some 30 million newly covered patients—people generally treated in emergency rooms now—will be shopping for doctors. That’s a problem because the U.S. has 15,230 fewer primary-care physicians than it …
VC to healthcare startups: Identify your customer very early on
MedCity | August 26, 2012
Category: Healthcare
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, or a new scientific pathway. “If you build it, [they] …
A Bundle of Change: The Next Great Health Care Investing Opportunity
The Motley Fool | April 20, 2012
Category: Healthcare
A change is coming soon that will radically alter the health care landscape in a major way – and provide yet another health care investing opportunity after the Meaningful Use bonanza. What is this big change? It’s called payment bundling.
The Wireless Revolution Hits Medicine
Wall Street Journal | April 16, 2012
Category: Healthcare
Eric Topol talks about the upheaval that’s coming as the digitization of health care meets the smartphone. After 14 years as chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, Eric Topol moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 2006 to become …
Health care ecosystem taking root in Central Texas
Austin Business Journal | December 15, 2011
Category: Healthcare, TEXO GP Publications
While many entrepreneurs and investors chase the next Facebook or the promises of clean technology.