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Source: Boston Business Journal
By: Jessica Bartlett
IBM Watson Health is partnering with Pfizer to use supercomputing to find new potential drugs.
Source: Boston Business Journal
By: Jessica Bartlett
This year, the hospital expanded [their] program to usher winners into the three-month accelerator, with the goal of driving innovation to help its patients. Dr. David Binder, director of innovation at Spaulding, said of the reason for the new accelerator program that “people are doing interesting things.”
Source: Mass.gov
Today the Baker-Polito Administration announced the creation of a Digital Healthcare Council, a comprehensive public-private partnership that will advise the administration on the future of the Commonwealth’s digital healthcare industry. The council stems from the momentum of the Massachusetts Digital Health Initiative, launched in January 2016.
Learn MoreSource: UMass Med Now
By: Megan Bard
The Center for Digital Health, a collaboration of UMass Medical School, UMass Lowell and UMass Boston, has received a $125,000 grant from the UMass President’s Science and Technology Initiatives Fund.
The new center will be a hub for research activities in digital health innovations; validation and evaluation of tools for digital health; academic-industry partnerships in digital health; consultancy and technology transfer for digital health; and education for the digital health workforce, according to Yunsheng Ma, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and co-director of the new center.
Learn MoreSource: MedCityNews
By: Ted Quinn
Patient engagement leads us to better, safer, less expensive, and more flexible ways for managing healthcare’s complex tasks. It’s common sense, right? If you’re engaged in your own care and personally accountable to yourself and others, you’re more likely to invest the time and energy to achieve health and well-being in your life.
Source: mobihealthnews
By: Heather Mack
Mothers, in a role that is always on-call, are constantly looking new ways to manage their families' health, and that means having 24/7 access to a doctor, according to a new survey.
Source: BostonInno
By: Dylan Martin
Calling all digital health startups. If your startup has less than $5 million in both funding and revenue and it's ready to take things to the next level, you have until Wednesday to sign up for MassChallenge's new "digital health lab" startup accelerator.
Source: mobihealthnews
By Heather Mack
Pharmaceutical company Takeda is looking to up its digital strategy game, pairing with a few companies to advance clinical trials, analyze data and develop biosensor and wearable technology.
Source: TechTarget
By: Shaun Sutner
Startups and established mHealth and health IT vendors showcase care coordination and telehealth apps, while speakers talk about tech tools for the elderly and mentally ill.
Source: Boston Business Journal
Boston startup accelerator MassChallenge on Thursday announced the top 26 startups from its 2016 cohort of 128 startups total.
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