RSNA 2014 Highlights

In einer Arztpraxis ist der Anspruch an Hygiene naturgemäß sehr groß. Wenn Sie sich schon einmal gefragt haben, wie Sie das Problem der “Bakterienschleuder” Tastatur in den Griff bekommen könnten, so gibt es jetzt dafür eine durchaus akzeptable und preistechnisch überzeugende Lösung. Der Hersteller Logitech hat eine waschbare Tastatur herausgebracht, die nicht nur modernsten technischen und sogar designmäßigen Ansprüchen gerecht wird, und dabei noch komplett wasserresistent ist. Damit ist in Zukunft in Ihrer Praxis Hygiene für die Tastatur an der Tagesordnung.

We are not the typical scoop-driven health 2.0 news portal, but once in a while we are happy to share some exciting news for startups we apreciate. In this case we’ve just received a press release saying that HealthTap, which we’ve dubbed as a “a giant leap for healthcare“, is receiving the staggering amount of $11 million in a series A round (which basically means it’s the first money not coming from private, but institutional investors such as venture capital firms, but in this case HealthTap already received such funding). Even for the US, this is a lot of money for a service at such an early stage without any obvious – at least to us – business model live on the site. But the team behind HealthTap is great and so is the traction the startup is seeing at the moment. They are claiming that 6.000 physicians and 500 healthcare insitutions , who are verified by the site, have signed up to the site and actively use it. It remains unknown (at least to us – again) if those physicians are being paid for their answers (and time) or if it’s reputation and goodwill. This part of the press […]