Edtech News Roundup

Success Academy reveals some of their secret methods. 

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff donates $8.5 to San Francisco public schools. 

There are thousands of edtech for school administrators to choose from. Here are some ways  that school administrators can go about choosing the right ones.

Here are a list of the 50 best apps that teachers are using, segmented by category. 

Stanford has created an artificial intelligence summer camp for girls to expand the way computer science, AI, and robotics is perceived. 

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Charles LaCalle
What we're reading in digital health news

Digital health companies raised nearly $224 million in August, with $70 million going to Accolade Health. 

Pregnancy apps are the second largest digital health app category. Here's how one startup is changing the way we think of prenatal care. 

Here are the factors driving digital health investment in China. There has already been over $1.1 billion invested in the space in the first half of 2016.

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EdTech News Roundup

Virtual reality is being used to monitor behavior (how your body reacts, how you behave, etc.) in online classrooms. This technology is solving problems of a shortage of teachers around the world. Bloomberg

Are curriculum demands to blame for slow adoption of edtech in schools? Schools are sometimes forced to use tech only for test prep, and much of what curriculums are based on is not applicable to real world skills. This article discusses how the role of tech is changing the role of teachers. Read More

Here's a list of 50 must read higher ed IT blogs EdTech Magazine

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Charles LaCalle
Digital Health News Roundup

ClearCare has raised $60M from Battery Ventures to expand products and explore acquisitions. The company produces a cloud platform used by home care agencies for things such as workers' comp, scheduling, tax credits, and quality of care monitoring. MedCity News

McKinsey released a report on digital health technology, how it is transforming healthcare and how health systems can accelerate the adoption of these types of technology, McKinsey & Co.

In the past 5 years, health insurers have sunk $900 million into digital health startups. Here is what they are betting will be the future of digital health. MedCity News

The New Yorker writes about what Aetna's withdrawal means for the future of Obamacare. New Yorker

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Charles LaCalle
Digital Health News Roundup

The Harvard Business Review published an article on the next wave of hospital innovation that is making patients safer. The focus has shifted to 'high reliability organizing,' which means attention to frontline practices, leadership support for responding to and learning from errors, and a cultural shift toward teamwork and care coordination. Read More

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Charles LaCalle
Dreamit Chief Investment Officer Karen Griffith Gryga Receives Leadership Legacy Award from Vistage

Dreamit's very own Chief Investment Officer, Karen Griffith Gryga, recently received the Leadership Legacy Award from Vistage. Every year, Vistage presents the Leadership Legacy Award to small business executives who work at companies with revenues from $5 to $100 million. The recipient of the Leadership Legacy Award is someone who truly embodies Vistage's core values of trust, caring, challenge, and growth.

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Jack Kaufman
10 Ways to Find Great Software Developers

Your product will only be as good as the people who build it. You want to have the best product, which means you need the best software engineers and developers to build it. If you’ve ever hired developers, then you have experienced the problem with supply and demand in this particular market.

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Charles LaCalle
Dreamit — Refiner’s fire for your startup

We’re just closing out the second full week of onsite customer immersions for the Dreamit Health 2016 cohort. In today’s final event, 15 Dreamit companies will present in front of global pharma giant Merck in New Jersey. Like the other pitch sessions Dreamit has arranged for us over the past two weeks, the Merck session will deliver extreme value to the companies (provided they are well-prepared). Such have been the stages Dreamit built for us over the past ten exhausting, value-packed days.

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Charles LaCalle