Honeymoon Over for Health Tech Investors?

Honeymoon Over for Health Tech Investors?

According to seed fund firm Rock Health, investors poured more than $4.1 billion into digital health companies in 2014, which was more than the prior three years combined. But are venture capitalists growing tired of the market segment? Rock Health polled audience...
Mobile Health Attracts Venture Funding

Mobile Health Attracts Venture Funding

A new report from Mercom Capital Group indicates that venture capital funding for digital healthcare and information technology has fallen off dramatically since last year. In the first quarter of 2015, nearly half a billion dollars less was invested than in the third...
Maryland Launches New HealthTech Accelerator

Maryland Launches New HealthTech Accelerator

BioHealth Innovation and ProductSavvy have announced the launch of a new HealthTech accelerator program in Rockville, Maryland. Backed by the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, the new “Relevant Health” project is part of a larger...
Tech Execs Launching Elderly Healthcare Ventures

Tech Execs Launching Elderly Healthcare Ventures

The Baby Boomers are now the Sandwich Generation, faced with taking care of their aging parents as well as their children. Executives in Silicon Valley are not immune to this development, but some of them have a different reaction to the challenge. In the spirit of...
New Business Model for Healthcare

New Business Model for Healthcare

In general, healthcare consists of detecting, diagnosing, and treating diseases and other conditions. The wearable Health Tech revolution promises to save money and lives by helping collect more data — on individuals and communities as a whole — that will...