Author: Mobihealthnews

NIH Grant Gives Roundtrip $252K to Study Impacts of Transportation on Opioid use Disorder Treatment

June 2, 2020

Looking to the opioid use disorder space the National Institutes of Health has given Roundtrip, a software platform for organizing medical transport, a $252,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant in order to look at the impact of transportation on OUD treatment. Specifically, the study will be zeroing in on appointment show-rates and […]

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Roundtrip’s Medical Transport Coordination Platform Reports $5.1M Series A

May 1, 2019

Roundtrip, a software platform for organizing medical transport, has raised $5.1 million in Series A financing. The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with participation from existing investors Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, as well as from an unnamed “multi-billion dollar international healthcare software and medical device company.” […]

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VitalTrax gets $150K to Bring app-based Patient Engagement to Clinical Trials

January 23, 2018

VitalTrax, a Philadelphia-based startup focused on patient engagement in clinical trials, has received a $150,000 seed investment. It is the first investment from a new $6 million digital health fund, launched this past December, led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Safeguard Scientifics, and Independence Health Group. “With its strong leadership and dedication to consumerizing the healthcare […]

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