9 Healthcare Tech Startups To Watch - InformationWeek
Summary
Investors poured billions of dollars into health technology startups in 2014, fueling companies that plan to reshape everything from clinical trials to analytics to payment processes. The Neuro Startup Challenge, sponsored by Heritage Provider Network and orchestrated by the Center for Advancing Innovation, encourages university scholars, private industry, entrepreneurs, and others to commercialize neuroscience inventions, said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the US Department of Health and Human Services in an interview. "The clinical trial industry is at the point of inflection, and cutting-edge technology innovation leveraging social, mobile, analytics, and cloud can bring a paradigm shift in how the operations would be carried out. For its part, BridgeCrest saw the advent of wearables -- from traditional fitness bands to tattoos and emerging products -- and focused on capturing data from these devices for its infectious disease analytics solution, initially targeting Ebola. Likewise, startup Nanobiosyms Gene-Radar diagnostic technology can test for any disease -- such as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, or cancer -- via an iPad-size device, without requiring running water, a trained staff, or electricity.
