Forbes Column 2010: The Way Forward With Health Reform

Health care costs can be reduced by nearly $100 billion, but it would trigger higher unemployment. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, The Way Forward With Health Reform.

Deal Radar 2009: Life:WIRE

Life:WIRE offers a cost-effective solution for users to proactively manage their disease and health conditions by giving any regular cell phone the capability to be a health management tool. This web-driven solution is gaining traction in the market through case management trials and research studies. 

Deal Radar 2009: Triveris

From nurses’ shift planning to physician billing to electronic records, old and often expensive ways of healthcare administration are being challenged by entrepreneurs with new digital solutions. Deal Radar continues to navigate the maze of the American healthcare system, presenting companies working to cut its high costs so that more patients can be accommodated within it. Today

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Deal Radar 2009: VeraLight

VeraLight is a medical devices company that uses a breakthrough approach to address a critical issue in the diabetes market – detection of diabetes at the onset. Clinical studies have shown that the disease is treatable and, if detected early enough, preventable. Unfortunately, due to performance and procedural shortfalls with existing blood-based screening tests, diabetes

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Deal Radar 2009: WaveMark

A recent widely-cited poll by PriceWaterhouseCoopers says that three-quarters of Americans want healthcare reform in President Obama’s first term. Such reform must reduce the cost of administering care, and many industry observers agree one way to achieve this is through higher levels of computerization. Over the past two months, Deal Radar has featured several companies

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