Venture capital funding to startups providing data analytics solutions for the healthcare sector has jumped over 100% YoY. Prominent VCs including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital have jumped in the mix as big data gets verticalized
As the healthcare IT market grows, venture capital investors are getting increasingly bullish on startups specializing in verticalized predictive and prescriptive data and analytics solutions for the healthcare sector.
All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. Launching, let alone sustaining, a new enterprise can be challenging along almost every dimension − mentally, emotionally, and often financially. Historically, this reality has been even more sobering in the health care sector, where the typical hardships experienced by any start-up have been amplified by numerous industry-specific challenges: Extensive regulation, entrenched players with a strong grip on the status quo, confusing paths to entry, and an even more opaque path to payment have made health care a particularly treacherous territory for entrepreneurs.
An implantable device that reduces blood pressure by stimulating a nerve in the neck could someday be an alternative to drugs for controlling hypertension. The device is one of the latest efforts to use a nerve-stimulating implant to treat a medical condition.
Such implants might offer new hope to those with extreme hypertension. Up to 30 percent of people with high blood pressure cannot be fully treated with medication, and some patients taking the drugs suffer from side effects including fatigue and light-headedness.
El de la salud ha sido un terreno tradicionalmente reservado para expertos, tanto los serios como los impostores. Es decir, un monopolio de curanderos y médicos cerrado para los profanos. Pero Internet está democratizando el acceso a la información sobre salud generando una auténtica revolución que aterra a unos e ilusiona a otros.
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The great promise of electronic health records is that they capture patient-care data in digital form so that it medical professionals study data and use it to improve care. An old axiom in the health care IT circles reads, “Something has to be measured before it can be improved.”
As health care outcomes improve, health care costs the country less. That’s one of the big reasons why the federal government is paying doctors and hospitals megabucks to adopt the EHR.
Healthcare providers are looking for ways to connect with potential patients on the web, on mobile devices, and through social channels. And San Francisco-based Clariture is ramping up to fill the need.
Clariture’s platform uses social media and patient data to find people who are likely to respond to a healthcare provider’s proposition. Clatiture customers can then reach out to the prospect through search campaigns and ad placements on social media and mobile channels.
The cost of air pollution to the world’s largest economies runs into the trillions of euros, with emissions from road transport accounting for about half of the total, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The study estimates the cost of air pollution to the OECD member countries and China and India, at $3.5 trillion (€2.6 trillion).
From healthcare data analytics to cost transparency software to mobile diabetes management, companies in the global Health IT (or what folks will also refer to as digital health or healthcare IT market) are seeing increasing interest from investors. Over the last four quarters, the industry has seen $2.65B of funding across 628 financing transactions and funding rose to its highest quarterly amount ever in Q1. Over the three-month period, investors deployed $1.11B across 181 deals – a funding increase of 210% compared to the same quarter last year.
Le diabète de type 2, dit insulinorésistant, est une des pathologies majeures de ce début de siècle. Causé par des facteurs génétiques mais aussi environnementaux (mauvaise alimentation, etc.), cet état d'hyperglycémie chronique conduit à de nombreuses lésions dans différents organes comme la rétine, les reins ou le système cardiovasculaire. Le docteur Nataly Lerner de l'Université de Tel-Aviv confirme qu'une simple prise de sang peut révéler les risques de développer du diabète plusieurs années avant l'apparition des premiers symptômes.
Less protected, less well detected and more exposed, women are more likely to be affected by cardiovascular diseases, which are responsible for 42% of female deaths in Europe, according to a recent study. EurActiv France reports.
