FCA V Portfolio Company, ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc., was selected a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner.  This award recognizes ChartWise as one of the technology industry’s top private companies.

The Red Herring Top 100 North America winners represent outstanding entrepreneurs and promising companies. Award winners are chosen from approximately 1,200 privately financed companies each year in the US and Canada. A review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowed Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America, complement this assessment of potential.

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Clinical Ink, the pioneering provider of eSource solutions for clinical trials, today announced a merger with CentrosHealth, the ground-breaking provider of configurable mobile apps for clinical trial patient engagement and electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) founded by MPM Capital. The company also announced that MPM Capital and F2 Ventures joined FCA Venture Partners and other existing investors to provide additional growth capital for Clinical Ink to aggressively expand operational capabilities and further development of the first truly paperless clinical trial platform. Clinical Ink additionally entered into a strategic partnership with Novartis Pharmaceuticals, as part of their Trials of the Future initiative, to help drive industry-wide adoption of fully electronic clinical trials.

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The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research, and Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform that facilitates accessibility to unique bioresearch materials from laboratories across the globe, today announced Wistar’s partnership in the Kerafast Fellows Program. The program aims to provide scientists with real-life experiences in the technology commercialization field, an exciting, dynamic and increasingly competitive discipline.

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An increasing number of healthcare companies are being fined for hiring people on U.S. government exclusion lists as HHS' Office of Inspector General steps up its monitoring of hiring.

Fines totaling $9 million were levied in 2014 against 75 healthcare companies, according to ProviderTrust, a company that offers exclusion list monitoring software and services. That's up from 2013's $3.5 million in fines that hit 45 companies.

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These leftovers of past lab experiments can languish for years, frozen and forgotten. Now a Boston company called Kerafast Inc. is helping institutions clean out their freezers and reuse biological materials for new research through an online marketplace, a sort of Craigslist for biologists.

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StudioNow, the leader in providing scalable solutions for video content creation, announced today that Bluwave Productions, which operates one of the country’s largest video field production networks, is joining StudioNow. Effective October 20, Bluwave Productions, which supports Comcast Spotlight and other clients in 22 markets in the Southeast from its base in Jacksonville, FL, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of StudioNow.

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The partnership brings edo’s data-driven marketing platform to Visa-branded credit and debit cards across Europe. edo empowers marketers to target consumers based on their spending behavior with instantly-redeemable offers available directly on participating bankcards and mobile devices.

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