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Analysis of huge data sets will reshape healthcare
USA Today | November 24, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Insurers will soon reassess how they predict costs; patients will let doctors know what medications won’t work with their particular genomes; and researchers will look at hospital records in real time to determine the cheapest, most effective ways to treat …
Medicine isn’t a science yet, but data will make it so
Venturebeat | November 24, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla ruffled a lot of feathers last year with his prediction that computers would soon replace a majority of the tasks that human doctors currently perform.
Genomics pose “daunting” test for EHRs
Healthcare IT News | November 22, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Terabytes of data mean unprecedented storage and interoperability issues … but this problem represents a huge opportunity for HIT entrepreneurs and investors.
3 Hot Health IT Investment Opportunities
Venturebeat | October 4, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Health IT is hot, and it’s about time. Investors and entrepreneurs alike are flocking to the sector that once seemed insurmountable, yet is desperately in need of imagination, creation, and disruption.
5 Hot Startup Opportunities Created by Health Care Reform
Venturebeat | October 1, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
A key provision of the Affordable Care Act is going into effect today as statewide insurance exchanges open up around the country. But that’s just the latest in a series of changes to the U.S. health care system that will …
48 Million Americans Without Health Insurance
CNN Money | September 17, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
The share of uninsured people decreased to 15.4%, from 15.7% a year earlier, according to a Census Bureau report released Tuesday. Some 48 million people were uninsured in 2012, which was not statistically different from the prior year.
Electronic monitoring helps nurses boost hand-washing compliance
Fierce Health IT | August 30, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Electronic monitoring helped to dramatically improve hand hygiene among nurses in Canada, according to research published this month in the journal Computers, Informatics, Nursing.
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 …
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.