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HealthTap Secures $24 Million Series B to Accelerate Growth of the World’s Most Trusted Digital Health Platform
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Excerpt: Palo Alto, Calif. — May 8, 2013 — HealthTap, the popular mobile health platform that connects millions of people with a network of more than 38,000 top doctors for free, today announced it raised $24 million in Series B financing. Khosla Ventures led the round, in which prior investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated. Keith Rabois will join HealthTap’s board of directors, and Vinod Khosla will join as an advisor to assist HealthTap as it redefines modern healthcare. HealthTap’s new financing represents one of the most substantial series B investments to date in the digital health industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare, Investment
Startup HealthTap gets $24M to treat ‘demand shock’ of new Obamacare patients
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Excerpt: Fast forward to 2014 and it might be harder to get an appointment with your doctor, thanks to an influx of up to 30 million new patients expected to enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act.   But Palo Alto-based HealthTap believes its online health community for doctors and patients can help offset the impending avalanche of demand – and it just raised $24 million more to prepare. The Series B round, which was led by Khosla Ventures and included current investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Venture Partners, brings the company’s total amount raised to $37. 9 million. In addition to the new funding, the startup added a new board member: former Square COO and Khosla Ventures’ newest partner Keith Rabois.... read the full post.
Tags: Healthcare, Investment
CMS Improves Access to Healthcare Data
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Excerpt: Data. medicare. gov is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) flagship portal for sharing valuable data about health and healthcare in the US. The site is a key component of CMS’s efforts to align with the Digital Government Strategy and make valuable data open, accessible, and machine-readable by third parties, and as part of its broader open data efforts to improve health and health care. Socrata worked with CMS to redesign data. medicare. gov to better serve both the needs of the site’s core data customers, as well as more casual users. The data needed to be available and accessible.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, Healthcare, Socrata
Developers: Older HIW API versions to be archived
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Excerpt: Indicators in the HIW are categorized by the associated levels of data by topic, by geography and by initiative. Explore Indicators Helpful Resources The HIW contains several resources to help you better understand the indicators.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare
API Management for Healthcare
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Excerpt: It’s springtime and there is a buzz in the air.   The API Management market place is heating up.   Businesses are seeing the value in exposing data.   In the world of Healthcare IT, the drive to accelerate electronic health record adoption collides with the API trend.   What market sector could benefit more from the cost control and revenue generating benefits of API Management than Healthcare? Exposing healthcare data is the key to driving innovation, reducing costs and generating new revenue streams. Intel Expressway API Manager (EAM) can make it happen. Innovate Meaningful Use is pushing for more exposure of clinical data.   If public health records can be made accessible, healthcare can be modernized.... read the full post.
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With HIPAA Compliance, Cloud Storage Platform Box Makes A Big Push Into Healthcare; Invests In Drchrono
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Excerpt: Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was.... read the full post.
Tags: Box, Healthcare
Manage Your Health and Share Information With the CarePass Plug-in
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Excerpt: CarePass Sync is a secure personal health, wellness, and nutrition cloud created for all consumers. It enables users to consolidate their data from all of the CarePass Sync enabled apps that they use in a single location. We’ve just made the CarePass plug-in available.  You can log in to the consumer-facing https://www. carepass. com to view your CarePass profile and update or add information. Your profile will contain the aggregated information from all of the CarePass-enabled apps that you use. Our CarePass Sync API Plug-in uses fitness and body measurement categories from the list available on CarePass Sync and allows you to add your own activities and body measurements.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Appery, BaaS, CarePass, Healthcare
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat
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Excerpt: Paul Graham, one of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator, has joined the humanitarian healthcare non-profit Watsi. This is Graham’s first board seat and interestingly it’s also for one of the companies that his accelerator invited to participate in the last YC class. The news first appeared in a tweet by Graham himself: For the first time I agreed to be on a board of directors: @watsi‘s. — Paul Graham (@paulg) April 19, 2013 Prior to today, Graham had only been an investor and advisor to startups. He has invested in companies like ClassDojo, Trigger, Webmynd, Octopart, AppJet, and Infinity Box. Watsi is a startup that is very much like a Kickstarter for medical treatments, but for very much altruistic reasons.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare, Paul Graham, Y Combinator
HealthKeep Launches An Anonymous Social Network To Let You Share And Track Health Information
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Excerpt: Rip Empson is a writer and rabble-rouser at TechCrunch. He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. He’s a really great guy, and you might like him, but only if you have a sense of humor about things. Otherwise, you’re going to hate him. Rip has been quoted by various people at various times – some of them.... read the full post.
Tags: Healthcare
HealthTap brings the Full Spectrum of Doctors’ Knowledge to Mobile Health
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Excerpt: Palo Alto, CA – April 15, 2013 – HealthTap, the only place to immediately connect with 36,000 top U. S. doctors for free, today announced an even easier, more reliable way to find the top and best doctor for you. HealthTap unlocks the full spectrum of doctor knowledge by providing unparalleled insights into some of the country’s best medical minds through these doctors’ answers to health questions, healthy tips, and health related updates and articles. Furthermore, on HealthTap medical help experts identify the very best doctors, through a national Top Doctor competition spanning 128 specialties in over 3,100 cities across the United States.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare

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