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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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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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Autosport Labs Launches Race Capture Pro On Indiegogo - Open Source Race Car Data And Telemetry System

Press Release | Autosport Labs | November 21, 2012

Autosport Labs, provider of open source motorsports products today announced the launch of Race Capture Pro, a professional quality data acquisition, control and telemetry system. Race Capture Pro makes it possible to have professional-grade customizable race car data and telemetry for a breakthrough price. Read More »

Brainstorm Tech Spotlight: Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder And CCO Indiegogo

Staff Writer | CNN | July 5, 2013

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortune turns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. [...] Read More »

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 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 »

Digital Health Sees Record Cash Flow

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 9, 2014

Record amounts of cash continue to pour into the digital health arena, with the mid year numbers seeing record highs for year-over-year growth, according to a new Rock Health report. The explosive growth in digital health funding, however, has some analysts uneasy over a potential bubble in the market...

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Global Learning XPRIZE: Bringing Literacy To Millions Of Kids With Open Source

Jono Bacon | Open Source Delivers | September 24, 2014

This week we are launching the Global Learning XPRIZE complete with Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.  This is a $15 million competition in which teams are challenged to create open source software that will teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic in 18 months without the aid of a teacher...

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Health Start-Ups! - Crowd Funding And Project Testing

Joan Justice | Health Tech Hatch | June 18, 2013

Project testing and funding are necessary steps in the launch of the start-up.  Crowd-funding is the new kid on the block and is making a lot of waves in the start-up world.  And thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which goes into effect in 2013, crowdfunding will transition from a donation to a true investment model. Read More »

Initial CES 2015 Observations

John Lynn | EMR & HIPAA | January 5, 2015

Yesterday was the start of the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2015 conference in Las Vegas...

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MedStartr Finally Brings Crowdfunding To Health Projects

Rip Empson | TechCrunch | July 11, 2012

...serial healthtech entrepreneur Alex Fair and founding Kickstarter product manager Mike Pence have set out to give health-focused entrepreneurs and projects a Kickstarter of their own. Medstartr, which launched in beta today, is a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for healthcare companies, providing startups with a vehicle to market their wares, generate awareness and raise capital — direct from strangers, investors, and Doogie Howsers alike...
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mHealth, Health IT Investment Break Records In Q1 Of 2014

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 8, 2014

Investment in mobile health and other health IT technologies has been off the charts during the first quarter of 2014, says a new report by Rock Health, continuing the meteoric rise of mobile health technologies funded by more traditional venture capitalists and newfangled crowd-funding campaigns.  Technology companies have already scooped up more than $700 million since January of 2014, representing an 87% year-over-year growth versus the same quarter last year.

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