| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.01.2021 | At the height of digital wellness, are we missing the human touch? | I think back to a recent experience my son and I had at a doctor’s office. When we entered the waiting room, we exchanged quick, nervous glances with the other patients in the space before checking in online. Our only human interaction was ... |
| 02.06.2020 | Healthcare companies must iron out their digital strategies to ensure future growth | |
| 05.11.2019 | Medopad raises $25M led by Bayer to develop biomarkers tracked via apps and wearables | Medopad, the U.K. startup that has been working with Tencent to develop AI-based methods for building and tracking “digital” biomarkers — measurable indicators of the progression of illnesses and diseases that are picked up not with blood s... |
| 22.11.2017 | How fraud allegations against Outcome Health could impact the Chicago startup community | Chicago medical ad startup Outcome Health has been hit with a string of potentially company-crushing headlines this past month: First, it was the subject of a Wall Street Journal investigation claiming that Outcome Health provided clients w... |
| 22.11.2017 | How fraud allegations against Outcome Health could impact the Chicago startup community | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Chicago medical ad startup Outcome Health has bee... |
| 21.11.2017 | Co-Working in Every Neighborhood: Chicago's 120+ Shared Work Spaces | Picture this: You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, a few employees and a whole lot of potential. Now you just need an office.
Turns out you’ve hit the the office space jackpot if you’re building a company in Chicago. Over the last few ... |
| 21.09.2017 | 20 Startup Accelerators Impacting the Healthcare Industry | Startup accelerators are all about support. They gives budding companies a chance to succeed thanks to mentorship, networking opportunities, and plenty of capital. In the healthcare industry, those kinds of resources aren't found easily, pa... |
| 14.09.2017 | From predicting risk of surgical complications to therapist matchmaking: Meet Healthbox Studio’s latest cohort | Agathos is a mobile analytics platform designed to help physicians identify practice patterns and quantify the value of the care they provide. Founders Andrew Trees previously worked for Epic Systems and Steve Waye had worked for IMS Health... |
| 02.08.2017 | Here’s what’s exciting about FDA’s latest digital health plans and what’s to come | I say reassuring because I would argue that, of the two scenarios Healthbox outlined in June. Scenario One speculated that the FDA would opt for a light touch and modest regulatory barriers. That now looks like it will be closer to the trut... |
| 23.06.2017 | Envisioning how FDA could shake up digital health | Scenario 1: FDA opts for a light touch and modest regulatory barriers
In this scenario, FDA may evaluate whether solutions provide enough functionality (for instance, can I use it?) and basic value (does it help me?) while preventing patien... |
| 14.06.2017 | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Although Baker comes from a health administration background as a former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, his presence at the event marking the end of the six-month program is not the kind of recognition most healthcare accelerators are able to must... |
| 08.06.2017 | Your guide to accelerators focused on the healthcare space! | Dreamit, Blueprint Health and Healthbox are among those programs focused only on healthcare
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, ... |
| 06.06.2017 | 30 Best Startup Accelerators in the US Ranked | There's no shame in getting a little bit of help, particularly when it comes to running a business. Sure, you can bootstrap a one-man company with no advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and a notable lack of experience yourself, but you know... |
| 01.05.2017 | Reimagining primary care is “harder than rocket science” | Reimagining primary care has become a common refrain in healthcare these days, and one company endeavoring to do that is Oak Street Health.
Unlike the stark setting of the regular American clinic, a recent visit to Oak Street Health‘s Madis... |
| 06.04.2017 | Redox to Help Intermountain Bring Homegrown Apps to More Providers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In 2014, the startup accelerator Healthbox launched a program in Salt Lake City in partnership with Intermountain Healthcare, a network of hospitals and clinics headquartered ... |
| 09.09.2016 | 5 ways to optimize your healthcare accelerator experience | Founded in 2011, Healthbox was one of the earliest healthcare-focused startup accelerators, so we know a thing or two about how to get the most out of that experience.
In 2015, we pivoted from the traditional accelerator model and introduce... |
| 06.09.2016 | A Dorm Room Entrepreneur's Guide to the Chicago Tech Ecosystem | World changing ventures from Facebook to Dropbox, as well as local startups Moneythink to UProspie, were started by university students. And as entrepreneurial energy on campus is only growing, we have to wonder: who will be the next dorm r... |
| 02.09.2016 | Digital health companies raised almost $224 million in August | Digital health funding in August
So far this year, MobiHealthNews has tracked digital funding that has reached nearly $1.35 billion. August was a healthy month for funding, bringing in $223.86 million across 19 deals, putting it slightly ab... |
| 10.08.2016 | Addiction recovery startup Workit Health raises $1.1M to expand digital counseling program | Oakland, California-based Workit Health, which offers a digital counseling program for substance abuse, raised $1.1M in seed funding in a round led by Montage Ventures and Lux Capital. The company will use the funds to expand its current of... |
| 09.08.2016 | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | The company, which is taking part in the Healthbox Studios, Los Angeles cohort, attracted investment from institutional and angel investors. Montage Ventures and Lux Capital led the seed round, but Workit also secured funding from Invest De... |
| 04.08.2016 | Teledermatology company 3Derm raises $1.6M | New Haven, Connecticut-based 3Derm, a teledermatology startup that allows patients and non-dermatologists to capture clinical-quality 3D images of skin, has raised $1.66 million, according to an SEC Form D filing.
In an interview with MedCi... |
| 04.08.2016 | Exclusive: Healthbox CEO and Founder Nina Nashif exits accelerator | The move follows the departure of Rock Health’s founder Halle Tecco and comes at a time when several accelerators are changing or re-examining their business model.
Earlier this year Healthbox, which is headquartered in Chicago, earned a se... |
| 03.08.2016 | 3Derm is raising more than $3M to expand teledermatology business westward | Primary care physicians use 3Derm’s imaging system to capture and deliver three views of a patient’s rash or other skin irregularity. They store and forward these images to board-certified dermatologists within a health system’s network.
So... |
| 13.04.2016 | Day 2: INVEST 2016, live from Chicago | healthbox: the speed at which this whole industry is moving is incredbile, and the volumes of info are more than any one physician, health system can digest. it’s incredibly thoughtful integration of all these inputs.
1:40 PM:
Watch MedHead... |
| 14.03.2016 | Health tech accelerators Healthbox, Health Wildcatters get props in report | Business professors Yael Hochberg of Rice University and Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond produced the report with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Innovation Initiative Lab for Innovation Science, and highlighted their find... |
| 11.03.2016 | athenahealth’s More Disruption Please accelerator gives startups another way to shake up healthcare | In many ways, health tech accelerators are selling access — both to their partners and to the startups they select and who choose to participate. But when a health IT vendor with customer base is running an accelerator, it changes the dynam... |
| 09.03.2016 | A Comprehensive List of Women Founders In Chicago Tech | The tech and startup world has long been a boys club. Despite making up half the population and almost 60% of the labor force, women only account for 30% of the US tech industry.
And the number of female startup founders is even lower. Only... |
| 07.03.2016 | A new fund for Healthbox accelerator? Looks like it. | The last time Healthbox raised a fund it was 2014. It raised a $1.39 million to support its Salt Lake accelerator.
Healthbox tweaked its accelerator model and rebranded last year. We’ll keep you posted when we get more information about the... |
| 02.02.2016 | Hindsait Raises Funding | Hindsait, Inc., an Hackensack, NJ-based Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics company, raised an undisclosed amount of funding.
Backers included Healthbox and GuideWell – through its healthcare innovation and transformation fund.... |
| 17.11.2015 | The healthcare accelerator tour: An entrepreneur’s perspective | Healthcare is plagued with a wicked combination: endless opportunities to improve efficiency and seemingly endless sales cycles. It’s easy to identify problems worth solving and even the technology to solve it. It’s not easy to get that new... |
| 27.10.2015 | The Right Place Raises $2M in Seed Funding | The Right Place, a Lexington, MA- and Houston, TX-based SaaS platform that allows healthcare service providers to match post-acute patients to the right place of care, raised $2m in seed funding.
The company, which has been selected to part... |
| 27.09.2015 | Teva Pharmaceuticals buys smart inhaler company Gecko Health Innovations | Teva Pharmaceuticals will acquire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gecko Health Innovations (previously known as GeckoCap), a smart inhaler company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Gecko's main product is CareTRx a platform for chro... |
| 16.09.2015 | Epion Health raises follow-on funding to scale business for new provider customers | Epion Health provides customized intake forms for providers. In addition to asking questions about medical history and the medication patients take, the software-as-a-service tool for mobile devices also provides targeted content. When pati... |
| 26.02.2015 | Healthbox isn’t the only accelerator that’s changed its approach | I’ve highlighted a few accelerators that have changed their approach before Healthbox made its move. Two out of three of them — HealthXL and Rock Health, ended their structured accelerator programs in favor of more flexible approaches.
Rock... |
| 25.02.2015 | Stroke triage for ERs, pill-dispensing robot part of Healthbox’s accelerator reboot in Boston | Artaic Health enlists a pill-dispensing robot to take on medication adherence.The MIT spinout received $1.7 million in funding from NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant to advance its product. Its goal is to connect patients, clinic... |
| 24.02.2015 | Healthbox switches up model: No more equity stakes, aims for broader range of healthcare startups | She said it put together the new model based on feedback from the healthcare industry. “Entrepreneurs will benefit from customized, stage-specific guidance and curated access to healthcare and business experts, while meeting our industry pa... |
| 20.02.2015 | Telemedicine business tests Google Glass with first responders and ERs for acute care | Four hospitals are piloting Third Eye Health’s platform, including University of Texas Health Science Center. It is doing a 200 patient study to evaluate its technology through a mobile stroke ambulance. Herbstman said it expects to have da... |
| 18.02.2015 | Intermountain Healthcare allocates $35M to innovation fund to support collaboration with Healthbox | Healthbox is also working with the health system on strategic investments for external companies. The idea is to source companies and develop partnerships that include investment and potential customer relationships.
In a phone interview, H... |
| 09.02.2015 | Noise detectors that can make patients happier (and keep nurses in the loop) | The sensors are placed in patient rooms and a dashboard component helps alert nursing stations to areas where noise levels are greatest so they can take a closer look at what’s causing them and develop a solution. The company creates a scor... |
| 13.01.2015 | Before you join an accelerator, here’s how to do due diligence | There has been a proliferation of accelerators as of late, especially in the healthcare realm, but some are better than others, and entrepreneurs have differing takes on why they did or didn’t join them. Meanwhile, in the wider industry, we... |
| 13.01.2015 | Before you join an accelerator, here’s how to do due diligence | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There has been a proliferation of accelerators as... |
| 05.01.2015 | Here’s a group getting it together in the murky world of healthcare collaboration | The class provides Life Science/Health Care entrepreneurs with real world, hands-on learning on how to rapidly:
define clinical utility before spending millions of dollars
understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales ... |
| 06.11.2014 | Healthbox to help entrepreneurs inside and outside Intermountain get to “yes” | The foundry model is a structured process to capture internal ideas, evaluate them, and determine which ones have commercial merit.
“Traditionally offices of invention management have helped clinicians seek patents, but they haven’t focused... |
| 07.10.2014 | Healthbox has raised $1.39M fund for Salt Lake City accelerator | Seidman said the Salt Lake City office has partnerships with Intermountain Healthcare, HealthEquity, Zion’s Bank and Becton, Dickinson and Company and it has a strong focus on medical devices.
In addition to Salt Lake City, this fall it has... |
| 07.10.2014 | Medical device startups make up nearly half of Healthbox Salt Lake City accelerator companies | LIYEN sees a world where stylish and asthma inhaler can stand together in the same sentence. It has developed a next-generation spacer device for asthma inhalers to improve drug delivery. Although an estimated 25 million use inhalers, only ... |
| 05.08.2014 | What’s driving millennials to health tech? | By Judy Wang
If you Google the term “millennials,” you’ll see that Google automatically fills in such search terms as “millennials lazy,” “millennials spoiled,” “millennials trophy kids” and “millennials entitled.” Ouch.
As part of the Mayo... |
| 24.06.2014 | Healthbox Expands Program to Salt Lake City, Partners with Intermountain and HealthEquity | Healthbox, a healthcare technology focused business accelerator today announced it is expanding its accelerator program to Salt Lake City this August. Additionally, it has established partnerships with Intermountain Healthcare, HealthEquity... |
| 23.04.2014 | Mobile health business models: Still a work in progress | Julie Kling, director of mHealth at Verizon Wireless, talked during the panel about one of the company’s products, a video-conferencing technology that allows physicians and patients to communicate and conduct virtual visits.
“[…] The (per-... |
| 22.04.2014 | Healthbox raises $7M from Intermountain, HCSC, its first since founding | Jill Seidman
Chicago-based digital health accelerator Healthbox Global Partners, Healthbox's parent company since 2013, raised $7 million. The round was led by Intermountain Healthcare, Health Care Service Corporation, and Chicago Pacific F... |
| 17.04.2014 | Healthbox expands with $7M, 3 new services for startups & innovation-hungry providers | First it will bring its accelerator model to hospital systems via a service called Foundry. The goal is to use expertise gleaned from evaluating some 1,500 companies which have applied to the Healthbox accelerators to help healthcare organi... |
| 08.03.2014 | How these social robots are helping autistic kids | At the Duck’s Nest preschool in Oakland, Calif., a fluffy blue robot asks a group of toddlers, “I want to be your friend. Will you please be my friend?”
Robotics experts are testing this low-cost and affable robot, called Romibo, at schools... |
| 20.01.2014 | The 4 Winners of the Blue Button Innovation Challenge Changing the Face of Healthcare | In three days, 15 startups emerged, aimed at changing an industry that daily impacts every single individual.
"What you guys are doing are transforming healthcare and changing lives," said Andrea Ippolito, co-leader of MIT Hacking... |
| 16.01.2014 | 14 health care innovation predictions for 2014 | By Vector Staff
2013 saw an accelerated crumbling of borders and boundaries in health care, fueled by technological and scientific advances. Boundaries between high-tech Western medicine and global health practices have begun blurring in in... |
| 20.11.2013 | Healthbox Chicago’s next batch of startups want to soothe providers’ post-reform pain points | Other companies focus on automating or improving administrative workflow in a hospital. Ludi offers a software solution to manage a growing number of physician-hospital agreements, to ensure that the expectations of the agreement are fulfil... |
| 14.10.2013 | From 1,200 to 14: StartUp Health’s new class get pass into special 3-year program (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
StartUp Health has chosen 14 new digital health c... |
| 14.10.2013 | From 1,200 to 14: StartUp Health’s new class get pass into special 3-year program (exclusive) | StartUp Health has chosen 14 new digital health companies for its three-year long mentorship program, which aims to turn startups into sustainable businesses.
The company made the announcement today at the Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation Summ... |
| 19.09.2013 | Healthbox Nashville launches with 7 fresh digital health startups | Rounding out the class are these companies:
Atlas Health provides APIs for health IT organizations to develop new, HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant solutions and exchange data with partners.
Axial Health leverages predictive intelligence with a ... |
| 24.07.2013 | Why health care needs Apple | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health.
The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and f... |
| 24.07.2013 | Why health care needs Apple | Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health.
The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and fitness gadgets — including its hotly anticipated “iWatch.” If you were hoping yesterday’s Apple earnings ... |
| 18.07.2013 | Healthbox Partners with Leading Nashville Stakeholders for New Accelerator | Healthbox, a leading business accelerator focused on healthcare technology and technology-enabled companies, is expanding its accelerator program to Nashville this fall with anchor partner BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Healthbox is str... |
| 12.07.2013 | Top accelerators and incubators in London | London's tech scene is on the move, and accelerators are on the scene to speed things up
Home to startups like song identifier Shazam, cab hailing service Hailo, social chat platform Badoo, and gaming company Mind Candy, London is home to a... |
| 29.06.2013 | Top Chicago accelerators and incubators | Chicago's up and coming tech scene aided by numerous accelerators
We here at Vator have recently been taking you on a tour of some of the biggest accelerators and incubators around the country. We've, of course, covered some of the biggest ... |
| 21.06.2013 | Top Boston tech accelerators | Building your startup in the Boston area? Looking for some kind of acceleration? You're in luck.
In our tour of accelerators around the world, we must, of course, stop in Boston. The Boston area is home to some of the top research universit... |
| 18.06.2013 | Healthbox, Busy in Boston, Expands and Diversifies Amid Seed-Stage Flood | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It has been a busy morning for Nina Nashif.
The CEO and founder of Chicago-based Healthbox is in town for the accelerator program’s second “innovation day” in Boston. Nine hea... |
| 14.05.2013 | Health Wildcatters Co-Founder Talks Dallas Health Startup Accelerator | Dr. Hubert Zajicek, Co-Founder of Health Wildcatters talks about their mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator.
Last month, Health Wildcatters, a Dallas based seed stage healthcare accelerator announced their launch and is accepting a... |
| 10.05.2013 | Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants | Where: New York, New York
When: July 8 to September 26
Who runs it: Mathew Farkash and Dr. Brad Weinberg are the co-founders and are entrepreneurs. The accelerator is part of the TechStars network, which has helped it cultivate a wide varie... |
| 07.05.2013 | The Southeast gets its first digital health accelerator | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Interested in learning more about opportunities i... |
| 07.05.2013 | The Southeast gets its first digital health accelerator | Interested in learning more about opportunities in digital health? HealthBeat, VentureBeat’s health conference takes place on May 20 and 21.
The Iron Yard has launched the Southeast’s first digital health accelerator, proving that innovatio... |
| 05.04.2013 | Are healthcare accelerators producing stronger startups? | A member of Blueprint’s previous class, Medikly, raised $1.2 million to expand its service aimed at the pharmaceutical industry to help marketers find their target physician and nurse audience on social media. It is led by Dr. Venkat Gullap... |
| 01.03.2013 | 5 Opportunities to Maximize the Value of Digital Health Accelerators | New report from the California HealthCare Foundation identifies 5 opportunities to maximize the value of digital health accelerators written by Aaron Apodaca.
The rise of health accelerators since 2011 has spawned what Aaron Apodaca describ... |
| 08.01.2013 | Disrupting healthcare: The unique challenges facing health tech entrepreneurs | Inventions need a little extra incubating to make them attractive to health care.
By Jenna Rose
When we think about the future of health, it’s generally medical science that captures our imagination – the source of groundbreaking pharmaceut... |
| 04.12.2012 | DreamIt Ventures Teams Up With Blue Cross, Penn Medicine To Launch An Accelerator For Health Startups | While accelerators may be in a bubble, they’re also beginning to have a measurable, positive impact on the ecosystem. The real opportunity, though, is not in creating another Y Combinator, but in building vertical-specific accelerators that... |
| - | 5 ways to optimize your healthcare accelerator experience | Founded in 2011, Healthbox was one of the earliest healthcare-focused startup accelerators, so we know a thing or two about how to get the most out of that experience.
In 2015, we pivoted from the traditional accelerator model and introduce... |
| - | Healthbox Chicago’s next batch of startups want to soothe providers’ post-reform pain points | When selecting digital health startups for its second accelerator class in Chicago, Healthbox put a focus on B2B companies addressing the post-reform challenges that hospitals and health systems are facing.
Seven companies were chosen, expa... |
| - | 3Derm is raising more than $3M to expand teledermatology business westward | Teledermatology startup 3Derm Systems is raising a Series A round to boost its sales and marketing team. The goal is to expand its New England customer base and add clients in Midwest and Southwest markets following a commercial launch earl... |
| - | Epion Health raises follow-on funding to scale business for new provider customers | A digital health company that developed an automated intake system for providers recently secured follow-on funding from Deerfield. The growth capital will help Epion Health expand its team of employees to support new enterprise-level accou... |
| - | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | Workit Health, a digital health business geared to people in various stages of substance use, has raised $1 million in seed funding, according to a news release on its website. The investment will be used to scale its model so it can be bet... |
| - | Day 2: INVEST 2016, live from Chicago | Participate in the MedCity INVEST healthcare investing conference by watching parts of the event live online and following our Day 2 liveblog here.
The schedule of live broadcasts is listed here and will be shown in this post as they happen... |
| - | Healthbox Nashville launches with 7 fresh digital health startups | The inaugural Healthbox Nashville program is under way, and there are some unique health IT companies in the mix.
Each company gets a $50,000 seed investment and four months of mentorship from Healthbox and its partners, BlueCross BlueShiel... |
| - | Here’s what’s exciting about FDA’s latest digital health plans and what’s to come | Expanding on the guidance it provided on June 15th, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration further clarified its plans with regard to regulation of digital health technologies in a new blog post last week. The most notable announcement... |
| - | From predicting risk of surgical complications to therapist matchmaking: Meet Healthbox Studio’s latest cohort | Healthbox revealed the 10 digital health startups in its latest cohort of Heathbox Studio, in a news release. Most of the companies have business-to-business payment models across pediatrics, clinical decision support and physician practice... |
| - | Healthbox to help entrepreneurs inside and outside Intermountain get to “yes” | Healthbox and Intermountain Healthcare’s partnership looks like it’s deepening. Earlier this year, Intermountain invested in Healthbox Global Partners, the accelerator’s parent company. Now Healthbox is working with Intermountain to support... |
| - | The healthcare accelerator tour: An entrepreneur’s perspective | Accelerators have been nurturing young companies since startups became as hip as garage bands. (This was 2005ish… about the same time I was in my garage tuning my guitar.) Founders consume the wisdom of elders in a sleepless boot camp desig... |
| - | Healthbox expands with $7M, 3 new services for startups & innovation-hungry providers | Healthbox is combining $7 million in new funding with learning from the seven startup accelerator programs it’s run over the last two years to expand its offerings for entrepreneurs and provider organizations.
“We started with the issue of ... |
| - | Exclusive: Healthbox CEO and Founder Nina Nashif exits accelerator | Nina Nashif
This post has been updated with comments from Healthbox chairman Nick Rosa.
Nina Nashif, who has served as the CEO of Healthbox since she founded the accelerator more than five years ago as part of an initiative by venture capit... |
| - | Noise detectors that can make patients happier (and keep nurses in the loop) | Since patient satisfaction survey results in HCAHPS began to impact hospital reimbursement a couple of years ago, healthcare facilities have taken a greater interest in developing ways to improve them. One Wisconsin-based IT business has ad... |
| - | Intermountain Healthcare allocates $35M to innovation fund to support collaboration with Healthbox | Intermountain Healthcare and healthcare startup accelerator Healthbox outlined a few months back how they would deepen their collaboration in a few different ways. The goal has been to encourage young companies that could improve the qualit... |
| - | A new fund for Healthbox accelerator? Looks like it. | It looks like Healthbox is raising a new fund, according to a Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The accelerator is keeping schtum about the Healthbox Opportunity Fund I and declined a request for comment.
Still... |
| - | Mobile health business models: Still a work in progress | Which mobile health business models are companies having success with?
One takeaway from the digital health panel at MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum is that everyone, from startups to big players, is still trying to figure that out, and... |
| - | Healthbox switches up model: No more equity stakes, aims for broader range of healthcare startups | Healthbox has tweaked its accelerator model in what it says is an effort to court early stage as well as seed stage healthcare startups. Its Healthbox Studios brand will no longer take an equity stake in companies accepted into the eight we... |
| - | Envisioning how FDA could shake up digital health | In June, the Food and Drug Administration announced an initiative to ramp up regulations in the digital health space. The announcement comes on the heels of the 21st Century Cures Act which, among several proposals, starts to outline the ro... |
| - | Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants | As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act are rolled out, providers and payers are looking for ways to address pain points varying from improving patient engagement and remote monitoring to helping consumers better underst... |
| - | Medical device startups make up nearly half of Healthbox Salt Lake City accelerator companies | There’s a strong medical device bent to Healthbox’s Salt Lake City inaugural accelerator class. It’s not what you typically find in accelerators that tend to want health IT companies because they are usually faster to develop and scale and ... |
| - | Health tech accelerators Healthbox, Health Wildcatters get props in report | Health Wildcatters got recognized for the first time in an annual report ranking seed accelerators. It scored a Silver ranking while Healthbox attained a Gold in the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project.
Hubert Zajicek is the head of the Dalla... |
| - | Telemedicine business tests Google Glass with first responders and ERs for acute care | Healthbox accelerator grad Third Eye Health sees an untapped market for Google Glass in healthcare: improving acute care by speeding up the way EMTs and ER physicians communicate with each other. In an interview with MedCity News, Third Eye... |
| - | Are healthcare accelerators producing stronger startups? | There’s an interesting trend I’ve noticed with at least one healthcare accelerator I have been tracking. The members of the startups for the most part have increasingly more industry experience and seem more adept at finding pain points and... |
| - | Here’s a group getting it together in the murky world of healthcare collaboration | The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Scie... |
| - | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Boston skyline along the Harborwalk
MassChallenge marked the end of its first digital health cohort PULSE@MassChallenge with assurances from Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the Commonwealth would back a second class of digital health ... |
| - | Healthbox isn’t the only accelerator that’s changed its approach | Healthbox‘s decision to revamp its healthcare accelerator model was an interesting development but as Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie blog author and consultant, it’s not an isolated case. She authored a report for the California HealthCare ... |
| - | Healthbox has raised $1.39M fund for Salt Lake City accelerator | Healthbox opened four healthcare startup accelerators this fall and is gearing up for another in London. Each one has its own flavor depending on the partners involved. It has raised a $1.39 million fund to support its Salt Lake City accele... |
