Building Better Bloggers

Whether you like it or not, online health activists and bloggers are an increasingly important part of the healthcare community. Bloggers and other online contributors have the power to alter your brand’s online reputation with a click of their mouse. So what’s your strategy for engagement? A core tenet of the new social realm is […]

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Smartphone = Smart Healthcare? [Infographic]

More people reportedly have access to mobile phones than to clean water, according to the nonprofit Tides Center that runs openmhealth.org. Assuming this is true, the implications of “mHealth” — the electronic management of health care through mobile devices — could be far reaching. Wondering what mHealth is exactly? The U.S. Department of Health and […]

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Confirmed: Doctors’ Social Network Doximity Lands Another $17M From Morgenthaler Ventures

7_doximity_logo_transparent_backgroundDoctors social network Doximity has raised another $17 million at a ballpark $80 million valuation led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The company’s series B financing also included participation from returning investors, Emergence Capital Partners and InterWest Partners.

The announcement today follows the company’s $10.8 million series A raise in March of last year and brings the company’s total funding to just under $28 million.

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Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care

how-it-works-steps-d4d390091859bb475a60d4768832a789Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big, difficult problems. I mean the type of trenchant problems no one likes to talk about and take years to solve.

Like this: Today, we live in a world where more than one billion people are unable to afford (or do not have access to) adequate medical services. Viewed in juxtaposition with the intelligent device/computer you’re reading this from, this fact is unsettling. So, Watsi, is trying to do something about it — by tackling that outsized problem on a smaller and more approachable scale: The individual.

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