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5 Digital Health Trends You'll See In 2015

Leyl Master Black | Mashable | December 16, 2014

2014 has been a huge year for health tech. According to digital health incubator StartUp Health, digital health funding in the first three quarters of 2014 has already surpassed $5 billion, close to double what was invested in all of 2013 ($2.8 billion)...

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Adullact To Award Open Source Development Project

Gijs Hillenius | Joinup | May 27, 2014

Adullact, the platform for French civil servants working on free software, is organising an award for the best open source tablet-based solution aimed at public administrations...

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Are We Ready for Consumer Microbiome Testing?

Juliet Preston | MedCity News | November 9, 2016

Some people collect stamps. uBiome has a different area of interest. Since 2012, the San Francisco, California, startup has received and analyzed nearly 100,000 stool samples from customers trying to understand the unique population of microorganisms that call their body ‘home.’ It’s now preparing to scale-up and diversify its testing options, with the help a $15.5 million Series B funding round that was announced in early November. An alum of the Y Combinator, uBiome has grand plans. But is the microbiome science really there?...

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BRCK: Ushahidi’s Kickstarter Project Designed To Fix Africa’s Internet Issues

Michelle Atagana | Ventureburn | May 7, 2013

Leave it to the Kenyans to figure out a way to connect to the internet no matter where you are and without electricity. Currently attempting to raise a whooping US$125 000 on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, BRCK is an Ushahidi initiative that hopes to solve internet connectivity issues in remote areas. Read More »

BrewDog’s Open-Source Revolution Is at the Vanguard of Postcapitalism

Paul Mason | The Guardian | February 29, 2016

...a very interesting thing just happened. BrewDog, the Scottish-based brewery whose beer outlets are spreading rapidly across the globe, just open-sourced its recipe collection. In a cheeky press release, its founders quipped: “Oh, and if you are from one of the global beer mega corporations and you are reading this, your computer will spontaneously combust, James Bond style, any second now.”...

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Chemist's Crusade For Open-Source Cancer Research

Robert McMillan | WIred UK | September 26, 2014

Isaac Yonemoto is a chemist, but he's been writing software code since he was a kid...[He's] using open source software techniques to kickstart the world of cancer research...

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Civic Kickstart: Citizinvestor Wants to Help Your Local Project Get Funded

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | July 2, 2012

Citizinvestor is the latest startup to tackle public budget woes by offsetting lack of public funding with crowdsourced citizen donations targeted to specific projects. Read More »

Continua and Borderless Healthcare Group Form Strategic Partnership, Launch The Healthcare Technology Innovation Center In Shanghai

Press Release | Borderless Healthcare Group, Inc., Continua | September 22, 2014

Continua and Borderless Healthcare Group (BHG), a global knowledge leader in healthcare technology, media and telecommunications,  have formed a strategic partnership to support healthcare innovation in China and promote international standards for personal connected health technologies...

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Crowd-Funding Draws Donations For Sandy Relief

Brett Zongker | ABC News | December 22, 2012

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, some who lost their homes or businesses have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster and more direct response than they could expect from the government or traditional charities. Read More »

Crowdfunding for Healthcare

Elizabeth Rosenthal's searing article about medical billing, adapted from her forthcoming book An American Illness, is well worth a read.  Its topic of sophisticated medical billing/upcoding -- done by organizations ostensibly acting in the best interests of patients and often under the guise of a non-profit status -- is also worthy of a discussion itself.  This is not that discussion. What jumped out to me (and to many others, on Twitter and elsewhere) was the following indictment: "In other countries, when patients recover from a terrifying brain bleed — or, for that matter, when they battle cancer, or heal from a serious accident, or face down any other life-threatening health condition — they are allowed to spend their days focusing on getting better"...

Crowdfunding For Innovation And Sustainability

Matthew Yeomans | The Guardian | November 22, 2012

Kickstarter has just hit the UK, but there are now a host of crowdfunding startups that focus on business creation and innovation Read More »

Crowdfunding Health Innovation: Disruptive Companies And Funders Meet To Change Health Delivery

Nicole Fisher | Forbes Magazine | February 24, 2014

Two of the most significant pieces of legislation in decades, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, are poised to transform the entire spectrum of health care. The ACA regulates everything from health insurance requirements to tax collection.

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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr

Kasia Galica | Informatics for Consumer Health | November 13, 2012

In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »

Crowdfunding Healthcare Startups – Medstartr And Indiegogo

John Lynn | EMR & HIPAA | October 5, 2012

I have been seeing more and more activity around the idea of using the crowds to fund various healthcare IT startup companies. This shouldn’t be that surprising to any of us given the success of websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo... Read More »

Crowdfunding In Healthcare Isn’t Easy – Health Tech Hatch Turns to Indiegogo

Ki Mae Heussner | GigaOM | June 5, 2013

Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms on the web, Indiegogo. Read More »