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How Vanderbilt University Medical Center is Using Procured Health's Clinical Evidence to Drive Down Costs

Hospitals across the nation are looking for ways to improve outcomes and reduce clinical spend. However, this can be a challenging task if healthcare organizations aren't armed with the right information. To solve this problem, Vanderbilt looked for outside assistance from Chicago-based Procured Health. Procured offers a medical product research platform that allows users to compare devices. Through comparison, hospitals can determine if a higher price product is worth the extra cost, or if similar outcomes can be achieved using a less expensive product.

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One Medical Passport Receives $4M Series A Investment by FCA Venture Partners to Accelerate Growth

One Medical Passport, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based peri-operative medical software, announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series A investment from FCA Venture Partners, a Nashville-based venture capital firm focused on healthcare IT. One Medical Passport’s online software is used by over two million patients and 700 medical facilities annually throughout the U.S., and its customers include many of the top healthcare management companies.

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FCA V Company, ChartWise Medical Solutions, Honored as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner

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 Merges with CentrosHealth and Completes Financing Led by MPM Capital

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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Kerafast and The Wistar Institute Announce Collaboration

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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