Digital Health

Venture Capital’s Bold Move into Population Health

January 10, 2017

Two years ago, Raul Jain joined forces with a friend and others to create TowerView Health, a low-tech prescription management service. Now, the four founders were just named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list. Startups like TowerView, which offer practical solutions for managing populations, are attracting serious investor interest. Global population health management as […]

Essential Medical Inc. Announces the Successful Initiation of the U.S. MANTA Vascular Closure Device Trial With the First Patients Enrolled in TAVR and EVAR Cases

December 12, 2016

Essential Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company addressing the rapidly growing $600M large bore vascular closure market, announced today the start of the MANTA Vascular Closure Device U.S. Pivotal Trial. The first U.S. case was performed on November 28 by Dr. Itsik Ben-Dor, MD at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington D.C. After […]

A Partnership Ripe for the Region

December 9, 2016

At Philly Startup Leaders’ Founder Factory event yesterday, the $6M Ben Franklin/Independence Health Group/Safeguard digital health funding initiative was announced. Safeguard’s David Luk shared the organization’s perspective on why the time is right for the partnership. By now, most people are aware of Safeguard’s rich history of fostering innovation and supporting entrepreneurs along their path to disruption. Our […]

How To Enroll Your Dog in a Cancer-Drug Trial

November 16, 2016

Why pets might make better research subjects than lab animals. DRUG development is a risky—and costly—business. Many promising compounds fail to cut the mustard when put through clinical trials. One reason is that drugs which work on laboratory animals may not work quite so well in human tests. Being able to pick winners and losers […]

InvisALERT Solutions has raised more than 600k for a 2nd generation wearable-based patient monitoring platform to improve safety for psychiatric inpatients

October 25, 2016

Behavioral health has been a growing area of interest for digital health. But most companies have avoided clinical settings, particularly psychiatric hospitals. Philadelphia company InvisALERT Solutions is developing a workflow tool using a wearable-based patient monitoring platform to improve safety for psychiatric inpatients. In an interview, InvisALERT CEO Peter Nagy said the idea is to […]

These 6 startups are graduating from the Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator

October 13, 2016

When the University City Science Center put out a call for the second iteration of its Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) program, 69 startups signed up for a spot. Only six companies from that pool made the cut, and next week, you’ll have a chance to see what they were up to during the 12-month program […]

InstaMed Raises $50M From San Francisco-based Carrick Capital Partners

September 27, 2016

Center City-based InstaMed, the healthcare payments company that hosts an annual user conference, just raised $50 million from a San Francisco-based venture firm. Carrick Capital Partners Managing Director Jim Madden said the firm recognized the value of InstaMed’s platform offering, which reportedly processes tens of billions of dollars in healthcare payments annually. As part of the […]