Health-care IT News

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Startup MyCare gets $1M in seed funding
MyCare Inc., a Connecticut healthcare information technology company, has raised $1 million in new funding, with $500,000 coming from Connecticut Innovations, according to a release.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

iRobot takes $6M stake of InTouch Health
Robotics developer iRobot Corp., maker of the Roomba, will make a $6 million investment and take a minority stake in San Diego, Calif., based InTouch Health, a telemedicine company.
Silverlink socks away $2M in new funding round
Patient communications services company Silverlink Communications Inc. has landed $2 million of a planned $2.04 million Series D funding round.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Casenet collects $3M financing
Casenet LLC, a health-care software developer in Bedford, took in $3 million in an equity funding round, federal documents show. The company makes software that health plan providers use to manage care, from wellness programs to caring for serious illnesses.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

GenomeQuest awards genetic sequencing software grants
GenomeQuest Inc., a Westborough developer of sequence data management software for genome-based research, is supporting the use of next generation sequencing based tests by giving about $120,000 in software and service grants to six U.S. laboratories.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Physicians Interactive boosted by Merck $17M investment
Physicians Interactive Holdings (PIH), a mobile and online health information software company in Marlborough, is getting a boost in funding with up to $17 million coming from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund LLC.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

VelQuest acquired by Accelrys for $35M
Accelrys Inc. has acquired VelQuest Corp., a privately held company in Hopkinton that produces software for FDA-regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals and biotech, in a deal worth $35 million.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

PatientKeeper pulls in $6M, names Hazard chairman
Waltham health care information systems company PatientKeeper Inc. has taken in $6 million in new funding from existing investors, including Flybridge Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Whitney & Co.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

iMedx buys up Texas transcription firm
Continuing the trend of buying up its competition, medical transcription company iMedX Inc., of Shelton, Conn., has acquired the assets of Abacus Transcriptions Inc. of Houston.

Monday, December 12, 2011

WPI team gets $1.2M from NSF for diabetes care app
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to make a smart phone application so people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers can better manage their disease.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Life Image lands $8M in new funding
Newton medical imaging startup Life Image Inc., co-founded in 2008 by serial entrepreneur Hamid Tabatabaie, has raised $8 million in a new fundraise, according to documents filed with the SEC.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Bottomline buys a pair of firms, gets health care tech
Bottomline Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, N.H., is continuing its 2011 acquisition strategy, buying a pair of companies, one of which adds to its health care technology offerings, the company said in a release.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Forerun buys Texas ER software firm Emergisoft
Waltham-based Forerun Inc., a developer of electronic charting software for emergency department physicians, has agreed to acquire Arlington, Texas company Emergisoft for an undisclosed amount.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Segterra introduces online blood test for athletes
Segterra Inc., a Lexington-based startup providing online health tools, has launched InsideTracker, which uses blood tests as a baseline to measure and improve health status or athletic performance.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

FDA approves Translational Sciences’ medical imaging software
Translational Sciences Corp., a Cambridge medical software firm, has won FDA approval to commercialize its OncoTrac medical imaging software, intended for assessing treatment options for metastatic tumors.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aetna, Harvard Med School team on healthcare IT research
The Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and health insurer Aetna of Hartford, Conn., have entered into a research agreement to analyze health care data with the aim of improving the quality and affordability of health care.
Startup eVariant raises $5.3M in first funding round
Health care IT company eVariant LLC has raised $5.3 million in what it calls its first round of institutional funding led by Health Enterprise Partners of New York, according to a release.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Imprivata taps BIDMC doc Kelly as chief medical officer
Imprivata Inc. of Lexington has named Dr. Sean P. Kelly, an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as the health care IT company's new chief medical officer.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Mass. tops U.S. states in e-prescription use
Massachusetts is the most advanced state in the country when it comes to electronically prescribing medications to patients, according to a study by e-prescribing services company Surescripts, based in Arlington, Va.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Physician resources startup Kyruus raises $3M
Kyruus Inc., a startup developing software to match physicians with health care resources, has raised $3 million in an equity funding round aimed at $3.1 million, the company indicated in a regulatory filing today.