Below you can find digital health industry news, including recently published articles, announcements, opinion pieces from industry thought leaders, event recaps, and profiles of featured Massachusetts digital health companies.
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Source: MeHI at the MassTech Collaborative
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. – A new challenge program launched by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) and Lever, Inc. of North Adams, Mass., aims to drive economic recovery by boosting the number of digital health tools available to help unpaid caregivers support their loved ones and return to work. The new ‘Massachusetts Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge’ offers growing digital health companies the opportunity to compete for a total of $250,000 in ‘tuition’ to one of nine research and development ‘Sandboxes’ located across the state.
Learn MoreSource: Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the MassTech Collaborative
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative recently announced awards for the new Right Care 4 You grant program totaling $189,360 for two digital health companies to support pilot projects with Massachusetts employers to help reduce their healthcare costs.
Learn MoreSource: MassDigitalHealth.org Editors
We have seen a steady rebound in job openings in the sector and the Board featured over 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the year, a sign of a positive trend.
Learn MoreSource: Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI)
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) has awarded new grants from the Digital Health Sandbox program to support three Massachusetts startups to test and validate their products and services at three different sandbox environments across Massachusetts. These three awards, totaling $105,500, will allow Lexington-based Keva Health, Cambridge’s Dynocardia, and Boston’s caresyntax to access the cutting-edge tools and staff at three innovative Sandbox R&D centers located in Massachusetts.
Learn MoreSource: Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at MassTech
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at MassTech has added the Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program (MD PnP) at Massachusetts General Hospital as the next sandbox in its growing Digital Health Sandbox Network. The program boosts digital health across the Commonwealth by connecting companies to a network of innovative test beds that bolster their research and development lifecycle.
Learn MoreSource: MassDigitalHealth.org Editors
This fall, MeHI (Massachusetts eHealth Institute) and Benchmark Senior Living co-sponsored a track at the annual MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack event focused on the ‘Future of Aging.’ The annual event virtually brought together some of the brightest innovators from across the world to ideate around specific healthcare challenges presented by sponsors, including MeHI.
Learn MoreSource: Built in Boston
MeHI Director Laurance Stuntz recently talked to Ellen Glover of Built In Boston for a piece on why the Boston digital health ecosystem was uniquely prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn MoreSource: MassDigitalHealth.org Editors
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Massachusetts-based companies ianacare and DynamiCare won the top two spots in The Fast Track to Scale Accelerator organized by MassChallenge HealthTech and Anthem. The Accelerator paired digital health startups from around the world with industry-leading employer champions with the goal of transforming the healthcare system.
Learn MoreSource: MassDigitalHealth.org Editors
As summer 2020 draws to a close, many organizations in the Mass Digital Health cluster have begun a fall hiring push. While many companies paused hiring early in the pandemic, from May to July 2020 we observed an addition of 424 new job postings on the Massachusetts Digital Health Jobs Board.
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