Leading innovation with Call9
EM physicians get out ahead of trends, government and insurance companies. When Dr. Tim Peck made his pitch to potential…
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Ride Health Makes Getting Home a lot Easier for Patients
When Imran Cronk began his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, starting a company was the last thing on his…
Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Tests New Tele-Screening Program
This limited-run pilot has shown early success and Hopkins hopes that the final stats will warrant broad expansion. We caught…
Retrain the Brain with Wellth
A multitude of challenges in healthcare can be traced back to poor medication adherence. Patients fail to fill prescriptions, fail to take their medications, and fail to get refills. Along comes Wellth, a health tech company that is betting that medication adherence starts with rewiring our brains using smart incentive programs. In other words, they’ll pay you to take your pills.
Telehealth Gets a SUPA Power Boost
This Spring, SUPA rolls out a limited line of fashion-forward, health tracking sports bras. But the garments themselves are merely…
Doctor on Demand Got the Funding. Now What?
Dr. Ian Tong cringes when his company, Doctor on Demand, is compared with other telemedicine providers. Whether that is because…
Startup Health Stakes Its Future On The ‘Moonshot Mentality’
At the recent Startup Health Festival (pictured) the health tech hub unveiled 10 healthcare “moonshots” as well as the audacious…
Johns Hopkins Hopes a New Med Tech Hub Can Help Revitalize Baltimore
The new FastForward project combines co-working with state-of-the-art lab facilities.
RocketHealth and the Med Tech Ripple Effect
In his second year of an emergency medicine residency, Jeremy Corbett began to question the impact of his care. Not satisfied with helping just one patient at a time, he began to imagine a software platform that could be leveraged to assist whole communities. Soon after residency, Corbett founded RocketHealth, a company that provides a real-time dashboard of health metrics to diabetes patients and the coaches who manage their care.
Company Spotlight: AdhereTech
AdhereTech wants to solve the problem of medication adherence through a connected pill bottle that tracks whether a patient has taken their medications. The pill bottles use cellular technology and sensors to remind patients if they miss a dose through an automated phone call or text message. The bottle can then send real-time data on medication adherence anywhere in the world. We sat down with AdhereTech co-founder Josh Stein to learn more