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BetterDoctor’s Data Validation Work Helps AHIP Health Plans Comply with Provider Directory Regulations
AHIP | March 9, 2017
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies
America’s Insurance Plans released an issue brief today, conducted by the NORC at the University of Chicago, which finds challenges and opportunities to improve provider directories. The brief is an independent evaluation of an AHIP pilot during April-September of 2016 with member …
Untying the knots of capital equipment acquisition
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting | February 27, 2017
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Capital equipment purchasing can be a painful process – for providers and suppliers. Sometimes it’s difficult to know how many projects are pending at one time, or what the status is of each. What’s the budget? Have the clinicians decided …
Insurer’s Flawed Directories Leave Patients Scrambling for In-Network Doctors
NY Times | December 3, 2016
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
As consumers review their coverage and shop for 2017 insurance through the federal health law’s online marketplaces during the annual open enrollment period, many of the directories they are using are outdated and inaccurate.
New bill seeks to remove roadblocks to telehealth
FCW | February 3, 2016
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill today that seeks to expand telehealth services while reducing health care costs.
Using a Tracking System to Improve Infection Control and Patient Outcomes
ICT Magazine | January 15, 2016
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are among the leading causes of patient disability and mortality as well as financial loss for health care institutions with hundreds of millions of patients affected and the United States losing approximately $6.5 billion annually. Despite efforts …
Hand Hygiene. Redefined.
Becker's Healthcare Review | January 15, 2016
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies
SwipeSense transforms the way infection control is managed. We combine point-of-care hand hygiene dispensers, a sensor reporting network for new and existing wall-mounted dispensers, and state-of-the-art informatics.
Ortho Kinematics Raises $4 Million in Debt Financing
Yahoo! Finance | January 5, 2016
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Venture Capital
Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc. (OKI), a privately held healthcare diagnostics company focused on spine imaging informatics, announced today the close of $4 million in debt financing. This financing will be used to strengthen OKI’s cash position, expand US and OUS commercialization …
SwipeSense uses connected devices to bring hand hygiene compliance to 100%
iMedicalApps | June 19, 2015
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies
According to groups like the CDC and World Health Organization, a little bit of hand sanitizer can go a long way in combatting hospital acquired infections and the development of drug resistant organisms.
SwipeSense gets $9.6M for hand hygiene tracking system
mobihealthnews | June 11, 2015
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Smart hand hygiene sensor-maker SwipeSense, based in Evanston, Illinois, has raised $9.6 million according to a new SEC filing. This brings the company’s total funding to $12.1 million. The company raised $1.7 million last May. Previous investors in the company …
Ortho Kinematics Raises $9.6 Million Series C Equity Financing
OrthoSpineNews | April 14, 2015
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Venture Capital
Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc. (OKI), a privately held healthcare diagnostics company focused on spine imaging informatics, announced today the close of a $9.6 million Series C equity financing to expand commercialization of the VMA (Vertebral Motion Analysis), the company’s flagship product …