BioHealth News Archive
The case for health IT internships | Healthcare IT News
The recent federal mandates for healthcare information technology have increased demand on the field, boosting the need for educated and knowledgeable staff for health…
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Innovators: At Kaiser Permanente, technology brings the doctor’s office to your living room – The Washington Post
Dennis Truong and Jody Crane have reinvented the traditional house call. The Kaiser Permanente doctors are responsible for the creation and implementation of a…
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Silicon Valley biotech IPOs remain white-hot with investors – San Jose Mercury News
Long ignored in favor of enterprise software, social networking and other sexy Internet technologies, biotech has roared back in the past year. With drug…
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VC funding for health data startups bursts out of the gate in ’14 (after doubling YOY last year)
If the rounds that Health Catalyst and Zephyr Health have put together are any indication of how the rest of the year might go…
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Gray’s ‘Digital DC’ to include fund, tech corridor designation – Washington Business Journal
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's administration plans to establish a new fund to aid tech startups and designate a stretch of Northwest D.C. as a…
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DC Tech’s Q4 Venture Capital Funding Broken Down – InTheCapital
PricewaterhouseCoopers recently released the breakdown of its MoneyTree report by region. While we've know for about a month now what fourth-quarter venture capital in…
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Genomics 2.0: Putting Inova on the map – Washington Business Journal
The excitement reached a new peak with the first successful mapping of a human genome at the turn of the millennium. What if doctors…
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Johns Hopkins vs. MoCo farm: Whose wishes should prevail? – The Washington Post
As cars zoom along Darnestown Road, drivers can glimpse the gently sloping pastures of historic Belward Farm, a wide swath of green in the…
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GSK kicks off 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge for academic drug hunters in Europe, Canada and US
GSK is inviting academic scientists to enter their most innovative drug research proposals into its 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge – a programme designed…
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World’s Largest Gathering of Angel Investors to Converge on Washington, DC
Dramatic change in angel investing means both threats and opportunities for the angel investment community and the tens of thousands of entrepreneurs they support,…
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American Heart Association Launches Accelerator To Find Internal Game Changers – Forbes
Accelerator programs and incubators are growing rapidly in number within the health care industry, with most replicating standard tech incubator models. But one organization…
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Qualcomm VC: Enterprise implementation is the latest challenge for digital health apps
Dr. Lucian Iancovici is an investment manager at Qualcomm Ventures with a focus on the Qualcomm Life Fund, a $100 million digital health fund.…
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15 Maryland research teams win $4.1M in grants – Baltimore Business Journal
Fifteen university research teams from Maryland will receive a total of $4.1 million to work with local companies to turn their research into products…
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GSK Kicks Off 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge
GSK is inviting academic scientists to enter their most innovative drug research proposals into its 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge– a program designed to…
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Where the brainpower is: Exclusive U.S. rankings, insights – Baltimore Business Journal
It pays to have a college diploma -- and preferably more than one. A worker who holds a bachelor's degree will typically earn 77…
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