...in 2013 20 percent of all funding went into five deals: Proteus, Health Catalyst, Watermark Medical, NantHealth, HealthTap 20 funders did two to three deals each Remote patient monitoring, hospital administration, big data, EHRs and wellness by far lead the way Maturity is still hard to find: only three 2012 A-round deals have proceeded to B round so far this year; seven 2012 B rounds have moved to C round Crowdfunding has partially filled the ‘angel gap’ for companies in wearable fitness tech like Misfit and Amigo (plus HAPIfork), but the bulk of the action has been at non-healthcare specific... Continue Reading
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FDA goes a bit easier on digital pill classification (US)
Good news for digital pill developers such as Proteus and Carnegie-Mellon’s digestible devices [TTA 15 April]. In FDA’s final order issued 16 May in the Federal Register, ‘ingestible event markers’ (IEM) are now classified as a Class II medical device, which does not require the premarket approval and the longer approval cycle that new devices (‘de novo’) under Class III must have. According to The Hill’s’ regulation blog ‘RegWatch’, “FDA granted the device class 2 status shortly after its approval in 2012, but the legal order sets a permanent standard for the technology.” Proteus’ FDA approval for their IEM was... Continue Reading
Proteus 2.0: more edible monitoring
From what only 2.5 years ago wags dubbed ‘creepy’ pills and now is the accepted Proteus Digital Health pill/transmitter/smartphone model, there had to be more in the same vein–or alimentary canal. Teams at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are working on digestible devices which have flexible polymer electrodes and are powered by a sodium ion electrochemical cell, to scrutinize for biomarkers or gastric problems. According to the CMU release, “The battery also could be used to stimulate damaged tissue or help in targeted drug delivery for certain types of cancer.” Health tech monitoring mavens may want to be in touch... Continue Reading
Fast Company: not quite as fast as TA
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/gimlet-eye.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /] The Gimlet Eye is not so much squinting at Fast Company’s 2013 ‘The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Healthcare’ , but wondering what took them so long. Your diligent Editors picked up on some of these top innovators back in early days: #1 Sproxil’s first mention here was March 2010; Editor Donna also interviewed Alden Zecha, CEO of Sproxil, at the Mobile Health Expo in Nov 2010 #4 Proteus was first mentioned here in September 2009 (back when the whole notion of tracking pills in the body was ‘creepy’) #6 GE Healthcare–the laptop-portable Logiq... Continue Reading
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