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Source: Inside Digital Health
By: Jared Kaltwasser
"If there’s one industry that’s ripe for disruption, it’s healthcare.
That’s what many technology and healthcare experts say. And yet there’s a problem. As Tulip Lim, a director for S&P Global Ratings, said in a brief last November, “the industry’s complexity will govern the rate of change.”
Learn MoreSource: MassDigitalHealth.org editors
Did you know that Massachusetts is home to over 350 digital health companies? While Boston is typically referred to as the biotech hub of the world, the digital health ecosystem is also booming in the Commonwealth. Since 2016, the Massachusetts Digital Health Initiative has been focused on supporting digital health companies, fostering the digital health ecosystem, and bringing jobs to the Commonwealth.
Learn MoreSource: Office of Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito - Mass.gov
WORCESTER — Governor Baker today announced a new grant program as part of the Administration’s Digital Health Initiative that will provide $500,000 in funding to open doors for healthcare technology startups to access research and development “sandboxes.” Governor Baker made the announcement during a visit with Digital Health Council members at WPI’s PracticePoint, one of the facilities supported by the program, where healthcare startups will be able to test existing technologies and develop new products and services.
Learn MoreSource: Massachusetts eHealth Institute
BOSTON – During an event today at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Kendall Square, the Baker-Polito Administration awarded a $100,000 grant providing seed funding for AGENCY, a new coworking innovation hub for collective impact where entrepreneurs, enterprises, elders, and experts can work side-by-side to explore and apply ideas for aging populations around the globe.
Learn MoreSource: MeHI/MassTech
Grant from Mass. eHealth Institute brings Commonwealth’s Funding to $240,000 Over Past 3 Years
Learn MoreSource: MassChallenge
MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, awarded $200,000 in cash prizes to the top three digital health startups from the 2018 cohort of PULSE@MassChallenge. The program also announced additional commitments and support from its partners, including Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech.
Learn MoreSource: MeHI
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI) and the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) today announced a new strategic partnership aimed at growing the digital health ecosystems in Massachusetts and Europe. The new agreement between MeHI and ECHAlliance will help advance collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and combine resources to drive the pursuit of real world digital solutions to address the world’s healthcare challenges.
Learn MoreSource: PULSE@ MassChallenge
MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, today announced the 32 digital health startups joining the 2018 PULSE@ MassChallenge cohort. Selected from more than 500 applicants from around the world, this year’s cohort represents the most-innovative technologies advancing healthcare and improving patient wellbeing.
Learn MoreSource: Boston Business Journal
Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs has gotten one step closer to winning the first FDA approval for a “digital therapeutic,” saying Monday that a video game it developed to treat ADHD had performed well in a pivotal trial.
Akili, a spinout of PureTech Health, announced positive results from the study, in which 348 children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD played either the company’s tablet-based game or a similar “placebo” game over the course of four weeks.
By: Max Stendahl
Learn MoreSource: Continuum
By: Mike Dunkley, Ken Gordon
The Resonance Test 17 Podcast with Secretary Alice Bonner and Laurance Stuntz on innovations around aging and digital health.
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