Funding related:
ALung secures $10M ahead of artifical lung system’s launch in Germany
TigerText nabs $8.2 million to secure health text messages
Teleradiology group Foundation adds another $1M in funding
IA Ventures raises $105 million to invest in Big Data companies **
Neurostimulation company Checkpoint raises $1.7M, looks to CE Mark
M&A related:
Boston Scientific to hit the acquisitions trail | Wall Street Beat (Implication, may have shift in strategy of company products)
IBM acquires mobile enterprise developer Worklight
Mobile Health Imaging Provider DMS Health Technologies Acquired by Platinum Equity (umph, Private Equity)
Heart monitoring company CardioNet makes $6 million acquisition
Partnerships
Greenphire and Merge Healthcare form partnership
Siemens partners with ViiV, Tocagen on new personalized medicine tests
Business:
What makes an awesome Board Member? (must read)
How to Create Realistic Financial Projections (must read)
Med tech tax: IRS releases guidance on 2.3% levy, Paulsen calls for a vote on repeal
Lumosity sees brain games taking off as 20 million sign up for mental gymnastics
Southern Illinois Healthcare taps Merge
The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30 Years
How Europe is Growing Health Apps (good read)
eRx makes steady gains in California, report shows
How a medical device company used $4M in angel tax credits to land $5M
Stanford StartX Graduates Tackle Cell Therapy, Mental Health, Batteries
Good Reads:
Texting helps with at-risk pregnancies, Partners plans to expand program
Check-Cap X-ray Radar Pill Sliding Toward Commercial Introduction
Remote monitoring system gets important upgrade in the UK, including physician notifications
Why we need to go from e-patient to i-patient
Eric Topol: Patients Need To Demand, “Show Me My Data!”
Big pharma marketing could teach the FDA about communication
iPads and health care – health IT managers slow down physicians’ clinical adoption
The real reason why physician groups want to keep using ICD-9 codes
NASA nanosensor sniffing technology adapted for smartphones, could be used for disease detection (same tech from last week, but another news perspective)
PositiveID’s FDA-Cleared “iGlucose” System Gains AT&T Certification and Access to its Network
IT giant India can’t digitise medical records, say docs (spelling error and all)
Endosync brings cloud-based wireless endoscopy to the iPad: iMedicalApps exclusive hands on review
Few SMS health applications have been evaluated
March launch for SkyLight’s smartphone-microscope adapter
Next generation health IT is not anchored to a desk
Gympact takes a different approach to healthy incentives: get fit or get fined
Best Practices: How mHealth Can Decrease Readmissions (we see this over and over again, but still good info)
No, the FDA is not assaulting mobile technology, Washington Times editorial misguided (good read)
UCLA and eResearchTechnology launch remote health monitoring study for COPD (would love to see the results!)
Demand exceeds supply for some health IT jobs
Software is about to eat chronic disease and save us $2 Trillion per year
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