Despite billions of dollars worth of capital flowing into digital healthcare startups, many are vulnerable to imminent collapse. By Tibi Puiu February 24, 2020 | ZMEScience.com In recent times, Silicon Valley tech companies and venture capital (VC) funds have banded together to transform healthcare. This has lead to the creation of a new type of [...]
By EMILY BARY | REPORTER | MarketWatch.com | Feb 22, 2020 9:35 a.m. ET Robotic surgery has long been part of American operating rooms, driven primarily by Intuitive Surgical ISRG, -0.84%, which dominates the market for soft-tissue robotic-assisted devices. But a crop of new entrants that happen to be some of the largest health-care companies in the [...]
February 18, 2020 | Mick Kulikowski | NC State University A new four-year, $6 million project led by North Carolina State University and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor will support 5,000 workers with training, college coursework and certification to work in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI). U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene [...]
By Nathan Rubbelke – Reporter, St. Louis Business Journal | Feb 18, 2020, 1:20pm EST St. Louis-based digital health startup CareSignal said Tuesday it has raised funding from four investors, bringing its total capital raised to $7 million. The funding for CareSignal, formerly Epharmix, comes from health care investors UnityPoint Health Ventures, Nueterra Capital, 1984 Ventures and existing [...]
The Medical Futurist | 7 min | 13 February 2020 Have you heard of the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? It goes something like this: once upon a time, there was a shepherd boy who would cry for help for an impending wolf attack. This was naturally taken seriously by the village’s shepherds who [...]
Reported by REBECCA MOORE | plansponsor.com | February 11, 2020 Employers see a business case for investing more in health and well-being, but overall cost savings is a benefit as well. Health and well-being programs are important for employers to retain and attract talent in a competitive labor market. Survey results from Mercer indicate that [...]
