Digital Health

Local Veteran Helping Mental Health Patients Stay Engaged

July 10, 2018

Getting people to continue their mental health treatment is a challenge. About 70 percent stop treatment before their third session – and often because they don’t feel it’s working. But a Philadelphia start-up says its technology can change that. Christopher Molaro’s mental health misson is personal. He served 5 and a half years in the […]

NextFab is Launching a $100K Follow-on Fund for its Accelerator Startups

May 18, 2018

Add access to follow-on cash to the list of perks at NextFab’s RAPID accelerator program. The South Philly makerspace — which also has locations in North Philly and Wilmington, Del. — launched a follow-on fund worth $100,000 to invest in companies from its accelerator program, which kicks in $25,000, office space and access to mentorship. No investments […]

Spun Out of Wistar, Isoma Diagnostics Aims to Improve Brain Cancer Treatment

May 11, 2018

A few years ago Steve Davis lost a close friend to glioblastoma. Today, he is leading a company developing a new approach to better diagnose and guide treatment for the common and deadly type of brain cancer. “Glioblastoma has been treated as one type of cancer for more than 20 years with very little clinical improvement,” said […]

How Philly Start-up RoundTrip Helps Ease a Huge Health Problem: Getting a Ride to the Doctor

April 16, 2018

In health care, innovation has transformed so much that was once a painful, protracted experience. Brain surgery can now be done with beams of radiation instead of knives. Some colonoscopies with the swallow of a vitamin-size, camera-enhanced capsule. Knee replacement without slicing the quadriceps muscle. But what often remains tortuous, time-consuming, and far from reliable […]

NeuroFlow Wins $5,000 at Mental-Health Tech Conference

February 27, 2018

Don’t get Chris Molaro wrong, there’s nothing wrong with winning $5,000. For the founder of NeuroFlow, makers of a biometric-tracking platform for mental health professionals, the win snagged by his company at the Psych Congress Elevate conference was important because of who was in the room. “It’s always great to get five grand,” said Molaro, who started the company alongside COO Adam Pardes in […]

VitalTrax gets $150K to Bring app-based Patient Engagement to Clinical Trials

January 23, 2018

VitalTrax, a Philadelphia-based startup focused on patient engagement in clinical trials, has received a $150,000 seed investment. It is the first investment from a new $6 million digital health fund, launched this past December, led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Safeguard Scientifics, and Independence Health Group. “With its strong leadership and dedication to consumerizing the healthcare […]

This Philly-Made Tool Can Help You Train Your Brain to Calm Down

December 8, 2017

When Clark Griswold tried to blanket his home in Christmas lights, an electrical glitch rendered the facade completely dark. But it was his gruff in-laws who added insult to injury. “Beautiful, Clark,” said one. The other called it a “silly waste of resources.” This is a scene from the 1989 classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. But you don’t […]

This Temple Scholar Launched a Tech Aid for Autism Therapy

October 30, 2017

For the past decade, Temple University professor John Nosek has been working to find a way technology can help people with autism. This year, with backing from the National Science Foundation, Safeguard Scientifics and Ben Franklin Technology Partners, he launched a solution called the Guidance Assessment and Information System(GAINS), which helps applied behavior analysis professionals collect data and guide therapy decisions when working with autism […]

NeuroFlow Nabs $1.25 Million to Grow its Mental Health Platform

October 19, 2017

Here’s some news from that digital health fund put forth by Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Safeguard Scientifics and IBX’s parent company, IHG: The group led a $1.25 million seed round in Center City startup NeuroFlow. An initial raise of $906,000 we’d been tracking on Formds.com was just topped off by the investing collective, established in […]

Meet the New Class of the University City Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator

September 28, 2017

Flushable pregnancy tests, remote patient monitoring systems, augmented reality to prepare for emergency situations – these are among the seven technologies being developed by the third class of the University City Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator (DHA). The accepted companies include: CareCierge is a high-tech/high-touch benefit for employees who struggle to balance work while caring […]