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| 17.07.2026 | Losing 80 Minutes of Sleep Per Night Causes Weight Gain via Inactivity, Not Appetite | By Ronald Holman
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| 01.11.2024 | Parakeet Health: $3 Million (Seed) Closed To Improve Patient Engagement For Healthcare Providers | Parakeet Health, a generative AI company focused on improving patient engagement for healthcare providers, announced the launching of its generative AI voice platform, which transforms how healthcare providers handle patient communication a... |
| 17.10.2024 | Parakeet Health: A New Dawn for Patient Engagement in Healthcare | In the world of healthcare, communication is the lifeblood. Yet, many patients find themselves lost in a maze of phone calls, long waits, and unanswered questions. Enter Parakeet Health, a generative AI company that aims to change the game.... |
| 15.10.2024 | Parakeet Health Launches With $3M for GenAI Voice Platform to Enhance Patient Engagement | Parakeet’s founding team Co-founder and CEO Jung Park, Co-founder Eric Mao, and CTO Aaron Lee
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– Parakeet Health, a generative AI company focused on revolutionizing patient engagement, has announced the launch of its AI... |
| 08.09.2022 | epocrates Launches Bugs + Drugs Tool to Promote Optimal Antibiotic Prescribing
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Since 1998, epocrates, an athenahealth, Inc. company, has served essential, clinical content to more than one million physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. Centered around unparalleled dru... |
| 12.10.2021 | How Medical Reference Platforms Can Enhance Clinicians’ EHR Experience | Diane Bartoli, VP and General Manager at epocrates
In healthcare technology, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet solution, and each technology has its benefits and its limitation. Electronic health records (EHRs) are no exception.
On t... |
| 11.05.2021 | Seattle teen entrepreneurs sell their health-tech startup and take a break from college | Sage Khanuja, left, and Nikolas Ioannou, the founders of Seattle-based Spira. (Spira Photo)
The news: Seattle entrepreneurs Sage Khanuja, 17, and Nikolas Ioannou, 18, have sold their telemedicine startup Spira to Galileo, a New York-based h... |
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| 25.11.2014 | Gamgee raises another $4M for voice-enabled patient engagement platform | Gamgee has a good idea. The market is crowded with companies with apps that try to make sure people follow their post-operation instructions from their doctor. But not many are trying to help patients do what they’re supposed to do before t... |
| 25.11.2014 | Gamgee raises another $4M for voice-enabled patient engagement platform | 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!
Gamgee has a good idea. The market is crowded wit... |
| 09.06.2014 | Mobile Health Is Enhancing Clinical Decisions At the Point of Care | Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Catholic Health Partners
Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Catholic Health Partners discusses how his organization is enhancing clinical decisions at the point of care through mobile health to improve the quality and effec... |
| 28.01.2014 | How hospitals, Big Pharma are gamifying staff training with a mobile quiz platform | QStream’s strategy is simple: Rather than “brain dumping” information on clinicians or medical students, it works with hospitals to deliver a set of scenario-based questions to their mobile devices over spaced intervals of time. The questio... |
| 19.11.2013 | 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| 06.11.2013 | Big data is like teen sex and other memorable quotes from the digital healthcare innovation summit | “I work in healthcare, then I go home at night to the 21st century.” David Levin, Cleveland Clinic Chief Medical Information Officer, shared his perspective on the need to reform healthcare and to balance healthcare technology with improvin... |
| 08.10.2013 | Bay City Capital Names Ashley Ledbetter Dombkowski, PhD, Managing Director | San Francisco, CA — Bay City Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on early-stage to growth equity investments in the life sciences, today announced Ashley Dombkowski, Ph.D. joined as Managing Director.
“Drug discovery and develo... |
| 27.08.2013 | In a popularity contest of physician-only social networks, Doximity pulls ahead with 200K users | Doximity is a social platform that physicians can run on their smartphones, tablets or computers to connect with other physicians and specialists to securely send faxes, text messages, emails and images from one inbox. Like LinkedIn, it als... |
| 20.05.2013 | Doximity now offers online education for practicing physicians (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!
SAN FRANCISCO — The startup Doximity is commonly ... |
| 20.05.2013 | Doximity now offers online education for practicing physicians (exclusive) | SAN FRANCISCO — The startup Doximity is commonly referred to as a “Facebook for doctors.” Not anymore. It’s now moving in a new direction: medical education.
The new model came about in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic, the nonprofit... |
| 13.05.2013 | Bay City Capital Expands Team with the Addition of David Beier, JD | San Francisco, CA — Bay City Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on early-stage to growth equity investments in the life sciences, today announced the addition of David Beier, JD as Managing Director. David served as a senior of... |
| 30.04.2013 | Share Practice releases mobile app to help good doctors become great doctors | What is the difference between a good doctor and a great doctor? According to Dr. Andrew Brandeis, it is experience, and he is launching a mobile application that holds the experience of thousands of doctors.
Share Practice is a collaborati... |
| 30.04.2013 | Share Practice releases mobile app to help good doctors become great doctors | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What is the difference between a good doctor and a great doctor? According to Dr. Andrew Brandeis, it is experience, and he is launchin... |
| 21.02.2013 | 10 Companies That Are Transforming Healthcare Infographic | 10 companies that are transforming healthcare infographic created by Accelerated BSN Degree Programs highlights how these companies are reshaping healthcare.
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| 10.01.2013 | Epocrates Attracted Athenahealth Buyout by Getting Back to Basics in Mobile | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When I sat down with Epocrates CEO Andrew Hurd on December 19, I wanted to know why the company had decided to abandon its ambitious project to build an electronic health reco... |
| 08.01.2013 | Funding Daily: If you haven’t got your health… | Health dominated the deals channel today. Venture capital reports, funding rounds, and acquisitions kept the blood flowing though the industry’s veins and all signs point to 2013 being a huge year for health tech. Consumers, it seems, are t... |
| 08.01.2013 | AthenaHealth scoops up Epocrates to bring a mobile toolset to doctors | Med-tech is off to a bold start this year with a hot acquisition, which will serve to consolidate the market.
Epocrates Inc., a medical applications company based in Silicon Valley, is being scooped up by AthenaHealth for $293 million. Acco... |
| 08.01.2013 | Funding Daily: If you haven’t got your health… | 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!
Health dominated the deals channel today. Venture... |
| 08.01.2013 | 4 observations about the $293 million athenahealth-Epocrates acquisition | “What we hope happens as a result of this acquisition is that, a) we become half as good as Epocrates is at mobile app development, and b) that 90 percent of doctors that know and love Epocrates start to know us,” Bush told Fox Business.
Th... |
| 07.01.2013 | Athenahealth Acquires Maker Of Popular Mobile Health Apps For Doctors, Epocrates, For $293M | Big news from the world of advancing health technology today, as athenahealth, the 15-year-old electronic health records giant, announced that it has acquired Epocrates, maker of popular mobile health apps for physicians. The deal is worth ... |
| 28.11.2012 | Doximity’s Jeff Tangney on VC in medicine, self-quantification, and how to get a sleep score of 100 | Health care is a massive part of the U.S. economy — about 20 percent — but it’s not one that we talk about often when we think of venture capital.
But that might be about to change, according to Jeff Tangney, a serial entrepreneur who found... |
| 28.11.2012 | Doximity’s Jeff Tangney on VC in medicine, self-quantification, and how to get a sleep score of 100 | 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!
Health care is a massive part of the U.S. economy... |
| 10.10.2012 | Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines | Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where a photo-... |
| 05.09.2012 | Doximity, a Facebook for doctors, pulls in $17M in funding | 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!
Doximity is on a roll! Shortly after announcing t... |
| 05.09.2012 | Confirmed: Doctors’ Social Network Doximity Lands Another $17M From Morgenthaler Ventures | Doctors social network Doximity has raised another $17 million at a ballpark $80 million valuation led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The company’s series B financing also included participation from returning investors, Emergence Capital Partne... |
| 06.07.2012 | Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death | The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy music.
Rather, it’s doctors.
More specifically, medical mistakes and errors resulting from miscommunicati... |
| 06.07.2012 | Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy ... |
| 21.03.2012 | Sermo vs. Doximity. Can they coexist in fight to build physician-only networks? | Both companies claim to serve the needs of the busy physician eager to connect with colleagues. Both have apps that help doctors solve case problems on the go by reaching out to their colleagues from their mobile devices — iRounds for Doxim... |
| 30.11.2011 | Doximity eyes top spot as social network for physicians | The social network for MDs is booming in the mobile health space
Physicians and other medical professionals have a lot to remember and are always craving tools and methods of keeping all of their necessary references close without weighing ... |
| 12.09.2011 | Most pharmas keep Facebook pages; some plan other social media strategies | Pozen has no Facebook page and Cermak said that it’s not yet clear that the company will need one. Cermak notes that doctors prefer Sermo, a social networking site geared toward physicians (Sermo’s CEO sits on Pozen’s digital advisory board... |
| 05.09.2011 | One Medical Raises $20 Million For The Modern Doctor’s Office | It’s 2011, but most doctor’s offices are still stuck in the 1990s when it comes to patient-facing technology. The receptionist probably has a computer to manage appointments, but typically you still sign in on paper, fill out forms on a cli... |
| 21.04.2011 | Weekly Wireless Roundup: Medtronic creates iPad apps for salesforce | Medtronic creates iPad apps for salesforce:
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) has armed its Apple iPad carrying salesforce with proprietary apps to aid their sales efforts.
"iPad helps us communicate with clinicians; it helps our stories come ... |
| 31.03.2011 | Diagnosia aims to make medicine information easier to swallow | There’s a plethora of medical advice and information about drugs and treatment online. But separating the wheat from the chaff can be somewhat of a problem.
Enter Diagnosia, a newly launched startup that is aiming to become “Europeʻs premie... |
| 16.03.2011 | Doximity Raises $10.8M, Helps Physicians Connect On The Web – And On The Go | One of the founders of NASDAQ-listed mobile health software applications maker Epocrates is back with a new startup called Doximity. The young health technology company this morning announced that it has landed a $10.8 million Series A vent... |
| 02.02.2011 | Epocrates IPO nets $86 million | Epocrates Inc. (NSDQ:EPOC) raised $86 million through an initial public offering today.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company makes reference and interactive software designed for both healthcare providers and patients for mobile platforms su... |
| 25.01.2011 | Epocrates, Mobile App Developer Since Palm Days, Preps for IPO-And for Push Into Electronic Medical Records | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re a young software engineer today, you’ve got to be in mobile. That’s why San Francisco and Silicon Valley are crawling with twenty-something developers building games... |
| 18.11.2010 | Epocrates ponies up $14 million for iPad app developer Modality | Epocrates Inc. acquired Modality Inc. of Durham, N.C., for $13.8 million in cash.
Modality develops digital learning, assessment, training and reference applications for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch mobile devices. Its acquisition wi... |
| 17.11.2010 | Mobile drug reference company Epocrates buys iPad app developer | “We have the trust of more than one million healthcare professionals, and with Modality, a richer, advanced Apple development expertise,” said Rose Crane, chief executive officer for Epocrates, in a press release. “Together, we will cultiva... |
| 06.10.2010 | Weekly Wireless Roundup: Nonin Medical launches wrist-worn wireless-enabled pulse oximeter | Nonin Medical launches wrist-worn wireless-enabled pulse oximeter: Nonin Medical is releasing a new wrist-worn pulse oximeter called the WristOx2 that can transmit recorded readings via Bluetooth to your computer or smartphone. The device c... |
| 18.08.2010 | Weekly Wireless Roundup: Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search app | Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search app: Nuance released its Dragon Medical Mobile Search iPhone application today in Apple’s app store. The smartphone app shows medical reference and web-based information simultaneously fr... |
| 28.07.2010 | Weekly Wireless Roundup: Psychoanalysis of a nation through Twitter | Psychoanalysis of a nation through Twitter: A team from Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School is analyzing words used in tweets by Americans in an attempt to gauge the public mood around the country. They discovered that Twitte... |
| 19.07.2010 | Epocrates Re-files for IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Epocrates, the San Mateo, CA-based software company that makes healthcare-related mobile applications for doctors and nurses who use iPhones, Android phones, Blackberry phones... |
| 19.07.2010 | Epocrates files for another $75 million IPO | Epocrates Inc. plans to go public — again.
The company last week filed for an initial public offering that could bring in as much as $75 million, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Epocrates makes reference and inte... |
| 31.03.2010 | Body Area Networks: Apple, Sensor Strips & the iPhone
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As director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, Eric Topol uses the study of genomics to propel game-changing medical research. The Institute combines clinical investigation with scienti... |
| 25.06.2009 | The Mobile Challenge | We are fascinated by the disruption underway in mobile applications. Carriers seem to have lost their role as gatekeepers for applications as smartphone sales are rapidly ramping and “app stores” or direct downloads are the new distribution... |
| 16.12.2008 | IPO market freezes out two more health care startups | Poor market conditions have dashed the IPO hopes of two more health care companies — clinical data provider Epocrates and cardiovascular drug developer Aegerion Pharmaecuticals. This makes 38 companies across all sectors that have had to pu... |
| - | In a popularity contest of physician-only social networks, Doximity pulls ahead with 200K users | Oft referred to as LinkedIn for doctors, social networking site Doximity is boasting this week that it’s acquired its 200,000th member.
That might not seem like a lot when compared to the 225 million members LinkedIn has signed up, but it’s... |
| - | Mobile drug reference company Epocrates buys iPad app developer | Epocrates Inc. — the San Mateo, California, company that makes mobile drug reference tools — has acquired Modality Inc. in Durham, North Carolina, for $13.8 million in cash.
Modality develops digital learning, assessment, training and refer... |
| - | Big data is like teen sex and other memorable quotes from the digital healthcare innovation summit | It would be tough to assemble a group of investors, entrepreneurs and healthcare technology professionals in one room and not produce at least a few memorable insights on medtech innovations, healthcare industry trends and the future of hea... |
| - | Most pharmas keep Facebook pages; some plan other social media strategies | Facebook’s policy change requiring pharmaceutical companies to open their walls to public comments sparked concerns that pharmas would abandon the social networking sites. It hasn’t happened.
Most pharmas that had a Facebook presence kept i... |
| - | 4 observations about the $293 million athenahealth-Epocrates acquisition | With its agreement to purchase Epocrates Inc. (NASDAQ:EPOC), health IT company athenahealth Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN) is hoping to go mobile, expand its network of customers and strengthen its brand awareness among doctors.
Epocrates, the maker of... |
| - | Sermo vs. Doximity. Can they coexist in fight to build physician-only networks? | A startup founded in 2005 and one started at the end of 2010 are battling it out for the hearts and minds of physicians in their bid to build the largest doctor-only network.
Sermo is the bigger dog, at least for now, and claims to have 125... |
| - | 7 Surprising Reasons Why Your Medical Staff is Unhappy – [INFOGRAPHIC] | Being happy at your job is a lot more than the money factor. (although getting paid more does make it easier look the other way when problems arise) Happiness directly correlates to performance on the job and how long your staff stays with ... |
| - | How hospitals, Big Pharma are gamifying staff training with a mobile quiz platform | Patients aren’t the only ones who are poised to benefit from gamification in healthcare.
In between rounds at hospitals like Mayo Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine, clinicians are answering quiz questions and participating in challenges... |
