San Diego-based Cellipoint Bioservices, a cell therapy contract development company, is building a manufacturing facility near Houston, according to an Aug. 18 blog post in the Houston Report.
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From making innovation a part of a health systems culture to honoring and celebrating new ideas, three health system chief innovation officers share how they make innovation a priority within their organizations.
Several Maine hospitals have embraced robots for a variety of surgeries, the Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal reported Aug. 22.
UNC Health Advanced Care at Home recently won the top innovation award from the North Carolina Healthcare Association.
Houston-based Rice University has been awarded a $4.16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to train professionals in healthcare informatics and precision medicine.
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Healthcare fintech company Nitra has raised $62 million in equity and debt capital.
From his days working as a pharmacist with a Chicago-area chain more than three decades ago, Craig Kwiatkowski, PharmD, has witnessed the evolution of health IT. And he's excited for the future of the field.
Life science venture capital firm Medical Excellence Capital has closed on its $145 million fund.
Los Angeles-based health system Cedars-Sinai has chosen 10 health technology startups to participate in its eighth annual accelerator program.
GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has made a bold move into healthcare, investing in dozens of startups — from those specializing in diagnostics to medical devices to health tech — since 2009.