Microsoft HealthVault leaps out of beta: Late last week, Microsoft’s HealthVault platform and personal health data repository, which the company is loathe to call a personal health record, exited from “beta” status.
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Weekly Wireless Roundup: CardioMEMS lands $22 million VC round
CardioMEMS lands $22 million VC round: Wireless sensing and communications developer CardioMEMS closes round of financing to bankroll its heart failure clinical trial.
Weekly Wireless Roundup: The Bluetooth stethoscope
3M unveils $500 Bluetooth-enabled stethoscope: The conglomerate unveiled the Littmann 3200 stethoscope with a built-in Bluetooth radio that aims to better enable physicians to detect heart murmurs and other afflictions.
Weekly Wireless Roundup: Cracking the vault
Connecting devices to Microsoft’s HealthVault: Mobihealthnews recently caught up with HealthVault’s senior global strategist George Scriban to discuss how the Microsoft unit fits into the wireless health discussion. Can mobile application developers sync their apps directly to HealthVault? Will Windows Mobile create apps that integrate to HealthVault? How does a medical device maker enable its users to send information to HealthVault?
Is the life science IPO in recovery?
A Nashville-based electronic medical records provider drew flocks of investors to its initial public offering today, breathing some much-needed life into the moribund life science IPO market that’s been largely stalled since the economic downturn began last year.
Emdeon Inc.‘s stock opened at at $17.75 per share August 12, up 14.5 percent from yesterday’s IPO price of $15.50, the Wall Street Journal reported, as investors bagged 23.7 million shares — 2 million more than expected — at the high end of the expected range set by underwriters Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UBS AG and Barclays PLC.
The offering pulled in about $367 million.
Weekly Wireless Roundup: A chat with Joseph Kvedar
Interview with the Center for Connected Health: Center for Connected Health founder and director Joseph Kvedar tells Mobihealthnews about the center’s various wireless health programs: “We have programs in a number of chronic illnesses; heart failure is our most advanced program. For diabetes we have an up and coming, growing program,” Kvedar says. “We have done a lot of interesting things with high blood pressure, both in terms of our use as a provider but also in terms of in the market place as an employee benefit. We have a program up and coming in activity monitoring and weight control.
Athenahealth co-founder tapped for HHS post
The co-founder of Athenahealth Inc., will have to sever his ties to the company after accepting an appointment as chief technology officer for the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, the federal agency that oversees Medicare.
Todd Park, who co-founded the Watertown, Mass.-based digital medical records provider alongside chairman and CEO Jonathan Bush 12 years ago, will resign his seat on Athenahealth’s board effective August 10 and sell his stake in the company and others that might pose a conflict of interest.
MedVentive raises nearly $5 million in equity offering
MedVentive Inc. raised nearly $5 million in an equity offering, according to a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Waltham-based healthcare management software provider, which was looking to raise a total of $7.25 million, managed to drum up $4.86 million from a group of six unidentified investors.
MedVentive was founded in 1997 by the CareGroup Healthcare System, a network of 3,000 physicians, six hospitals and more than 1 million patients that includes Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Weekly Wireless Roundup: Roche gets into wireless health; Sequoia Capital gets into arrhythmia and an Apple exec gets into VC
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews.com
Roche tests the wireless health waters: MYLEstone Health, developer of the Glucose Buddy iPhone app, is working with Roche Diagnostics’ Accu-Chek to add its educational program to the Glucose Buddy diabetes management app. Even though the addition of Accu-Chek’s educational program to the iPhone app is a far cry from meter integration, MYLEstone co-founder Matthew Tendler told mobihealthnews, it’s a step in the right direction and will bring substantial value to iPhone users with diabetes. More
Siemens and UMass Memorial Health Care ink HIT pact
The four community hospitals and one academic center that make up the UMass Memorial Health Care system will use a suite of healthcare IT products made by Siemens for the next seven years.
The more than 1,100-bed hospital system will use the company’s Soarian healthcare information systems product lines, according to a deal the two parties inked. Specific terms of the agreement were not announced.
Weekly Wireless Roundup: Wireless help for obesity
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews.com