Xconomy Wisconsin — The winds continue to blow in Propeller Health’s favor. In the past year, Madison, WI-based Propeller—which makes Internet-connected inhalers and sensors designed to help asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients manage their conditions—has announced several new partnerships and programs with other healthcare...
With technology from a new Madison startup, testing for pregnancy and fertility might become as easy as taking a temperature. Katie Brenner, who studies diagnostics at University of Wisconsin, started looking into other ways to check for fertility when she was struggling to get pregnant. Now...
Nordic Consulting, the fast-growing Madison health IT consultant company, says it has received an investment from Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston equity firm. Nordic won’t say how much money Silversmith is providing. But according to the Boston firm’s website, since Silversmith finalized its $460 million fund...
Each year, this exciting program singles out and recognizes outstanding employers in the healthcare industry on a national level. Read more at Modern Healthcare...
Moxe Health, a Madison software company, has raised $5.5 million from an investor group led by Safeguard Scientifics. The start-up company, founded in 2012, has developed software that makes it easier to transfer clinical and claims data for use in analytics, such as identifying patients at...
Cologuard, the home-based stool test by Exact Sciences of Madison, is now included in a measurement of how doctors and clinics are evaluated for colorectal cancer screening nationally, which could prompt more use of the test, the company said Monday. The National Committee for Quality Assurance...
MADISON, Wis. -- HealthX Ventures, a Wisconsin-based venture capital fund focused on investing in software businesses that solve cost, quality and access issues in the healthcare industry, announced today the final closing of its first fund (“HealthX Ventures Fund I, L.P.”). The fund, which was...
MADISON, Wis. -- HealthX Ventures, a Wisconsin-based venture capital fund focused on investing in software businesses that solve cost, quality and access issues in the healthcare industry, announced Sunday the final closing of its first fund (“HealthX Ventures Fund I, L.P.”). The fund, which was...
Collaborate, even as you compete, and all will benefit — that was the message keynote speaker Mark Freitas brought to the 2016 Wisconsin BioHealth Summit at the Overture Center this week. Sharing data among health care organizations can lead to lower medical costs and better health...
Although the real “birth” of the Silicon Valley mythos can be traced all the way back to the Palo Alto, Calif., garage where the founders of Hewlett Packard launched their company in 1939, global awareness of the tech-mecca exploded in the 1970s and has grown...