Two dreamit startups have taken top prizes in their industry pitch competitions at South by Southwest. Keriton, a breast milk management startup, beat out 150 other companies to win the South by Southwest Impact Pediatric Health Pitch Competition. A day later, 101 EDU, which encourages active learning in STEM classrooms, won top prize at Student Startup Madness, a nationwide tournament-style competition digital media startups.

Dreamit startup among those honored by AARP at its Innovation @ 50+ Event. 

Our health tech news roundup for the week of March 6-11. 

What we're reading in healthcare news, fundraising, and policy. 

What we're reading in health tech, policy news, and fundraising announcements... 

What we're reading in health tech news for the week of February 13th. 

The latest articles on topics in digital health from around the web. 

No matter what happens to the ACA, the trend of providing value based health care has gained a momentum that won’t be easy to stop. If Trump succeeds in eliminating health exchanges and rolling back coverage in states that expanded Medicaid, providers will likely see a dramatic rise in uncompensated care. Hospitals will bear the brunt of this increase in uncompensated care and have an incentive begin utilizing scalable methods for population health management.

What we're reading the week of January 30th 2017

A Harvard study analyzed records from almost 800,000 patients to assess the efficacy of Dreamit startup MedAware. The report found that MedAware’s technology identifies errors otherwise undetected by current systems in use, minimizes the risks arising from fatigued doctors who are used to getting false alerts from current systems, and reduces prescription errors with high accuracy.

What we're reading for the week of January 23rd

Here's our health tech news roundup for the week of January 14-20. 

We wanted to take a moment to congratulate the many Dreamit founders who found themselves on the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in the health and science categories. Forbes chose them for being some of the "brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers" in their industries. We can attest to that, and we're tremendously proud of the accomplishments of these founders. 

Startup igloohome (Dreamit 2015) has created the world's first smart lockbox. The product works offline to solve access issues for short-term rental hosts and home or property owners.

What we're reading in health tech news for the first week of January. What we're reading in health tech news for the week starting of January 2-6. 

The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation approved $7.2 million in funding for eight new projects in the areas of agrotechnology, biotechnology, material sciences, homeland security, and more. In addition to the grants from BIRD, the projects will access private sector funding, boosting the total value of all projects to approximately $17 million.

NextEnergy, in partnership with DENSO International America, DTE Energy and Wells Fargo, has named Callida Energy (Dreamit 2013) as the winner of the 2016 NextChallenge: Smart Cities technology challenge, a global competition challenging innovators to find hardware and software technology solutions to address unmet needs in urban areas. Callida Energy will receive $80,000 in grant funding from Wells Fargo to demonstrate and validate their solution.

Selling to schools is one of the hardest parts of building an edtech company. It is critical to have a well thought-out, go-to-market strategy in place to demonstrate the value of your edtech product. This means analyzing the classic 4 P’s of Marketing: place, price, product, and promotion. In some industries, these marketing functions can be separated from sales functions. In edtech, that is impossible.