Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Names Nanowear as Innovation Champion
More than 700 startups from around the world participated in the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge that culminated on January 8th at the Startup Health Festival in San Francisco—part of the 36th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Startups participating in the Challenge presented innovative technology and business models to help improve the way people access and manage healthcare.
IntuiTap closes $1.6M and forms strategic partnership
So excited to announce the close of our $1.6M round including investments from @thepinkceiling & @ionispharma! 2018 is off to a great start!
CROWDFUNDING: The 5 most successful crowdfunding campaigns in 2017
2017 was a banner year for crowdfunding campaigns. Here are five of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns last year that you need to know about.
Nanowear and The Secant Group announce exclusive supply chain partnership for scaled manufacturing of proprietary cloth-based nanosensor technology
Nanowear, the leader in cloth-based diagnostic monitoring nanosensor technology, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive, worldwide supply-chain partnership agreement with The Secant Group for scaled manufacturing and production of its medical-grade cloth-based nanosensor technology.
Miracor closes $30m Series D
Miracor Medical Systems said today it closed a $30.2 million (EU €25 million) round of funding as part of Series D financing round with funds slated to support further development and commercialization of its PiCSO impulse system, and announced it is moving its headquarters from Austria to Belgium.
Genomic Expression Receives $4.2M Grant to Validate Its OneRNA™ Liquid-Biopsy Platform in Bladder Cancer
The OneRNA4Bladder project aims to save lives and halve the cost of care for bladder-cancer treatment. Bladder cancer is the most expensive cancer to treat due to expensive diagnostic procedures and ineffective drugs resulting in a recurrence rate of 70%.
Denver’s Digital Health Boom
Medical care is no longer confined to the doctor’s office. Or even, sometimes, to an actual doctor. That iPhone in your pocket now has the capability to diagnose your cough, answer insurance questions, and get you pregnant…or at least help the process along.
Cloud-based platform enables use of AI on medical images
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arterys’ web-based imaging analytics platform, which marries cloud-based supercomputing and artificial intelligence, for clinical use.
Virtual Reality Makes for Better-Trained Surgeons
Some medical technologies can require hundreds of uses before a surgeon becomes proficient with them. Typical surgeon training involves working with cadavers, but doing this only allows trainees one, maybe two, sessions' worth of experience.
Linear Health Sciences Announces Additional Funding of $1.5 Million for Orchid Safety Release Valve
Linear Health Sciences today announced additional investment funding of $1.538 million, bringing total company financing to nearly $3 million. Linear Health Sciences is the developer of the Orchid Safety Release Valve (SRV)™ and other safety solutions for medical tubing.