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Edifecs

Major Health Tech Company to Hire Hundreds for New Atlanta East Coast Office

A large health tech company has announced its intention to base a new East Coast headquarters in Atlanta, planning to hire up to 200 new employees over the next three to five years. Based in Washington state, Edifecs is one of the fastest-growing health IT providers in the country.

Vital

Mint Founder Aaron Patzer Is Launching An Atlanta-Based Startup to Improve Emergency Rooms

Aaron Patzer, founder of personal finance platform Mint, is back in the startup world. This time, he’s building an artificial intelligence platform to simplify perhaps the only industry more complicated than finance — healthcare. And, he’s bringing a couple of Emory University physicians with him. Patzer’s entrepreneurial drive

HIMSS

Annual HIMSS Conference Is A Showground For Georgia's Emerging Health IT Startups

Thousands of health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors gathered last week in Orlando, FL, for the annual HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition. This week-long event — considered to be the Super Bowl for health IT specialists — is the largest healthcare technology conference in the world. Interestingly, the state of

Atlanta's ATDC Is Looking for Health Tech Startups to Pitch the Federal Government

Atlanta's ATDC Is Looking for Health Tech Startups to Pitch the Federal Government

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the longest-running state-sponsored startup incubator in the country based at Georgia Tech, has been chosen as one of eight stops on a national “Startup Day” tour for federal government heath officials to connect with tech startups. The ATDC Federal Healthcare Innovation Summit,

sharecare

Digital Health Platform Sharecare Acquires Mental Health Video Provider; Brings Funding to $380M

Atlanta-based digital health company Sharecare has acquired Window Channel Network (WCN), a distributor of relaxation and wellness videos focused on improving viewers’ mental health. All WCN video content — 30,000 hours of which are viewed each day across the globe — will be labeled with the Sharecare brand. Financial terms

ATDC

Georgia's ATDC Incubator Launches Healthtech Program With Gift From Blue Cross Blue Shield-Owned NASCO

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech's state-funded startup incubator, will launch a Healthtech-focused industry vertical program with a gift of a “significant amount” from Blue Cross Blue Shield-owned health IT company NASCO. This will be ATDC’s third industry program following the launch

BIP Capital Invests In Healthcare Team to Deepen Industry Expertise

BIP Capital Invests In Healthcare Team to Deepen Industry Expertise

Health IT is seeing more private investment than ever before — venture capital funding in the health IT sector totaled over $5 billion in 2016, a new record for the industry — and the southeast is a strong regional contender for those dollars. The state of Georgia is home to more than

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