One of the tidbits in Ashlee Vance's much-talked about Elon Musk biography is that the Musk brothers conceived of, and quickly rejected, an idea that would have put them at the forefront of the digital health space way back in 1994. According to Vance, as they roadtripped to the Mojave Desert from San Francisco, Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal discussed starting a social network for doctors as...
Physicians Interactive (PI), the digital health marketing company that offers medical reference apps and resources like Omnio to physicians, has acquired Waltham, Massachusetts-based Quantia Communications, parent company of physician social network QuantiaMD.
The acquisition, the terms of which were undisclosed, adds the first peer-to-peer network to PI’s platform, which already includes a...
Danbury, Connecticut-based IMS Health, a multinational big data and analytics company, has partnered with Quantia, developer of a web and mobile community for physicians. Through this partnership, Quantia will provide the 225,000 members on its network with access to IMS’ app curation platform, AppScript.
“QuantiaMD is designed to help physicians make better clinical decisions for their patients...
Quantia Communications, parent company of physician social networking site QuantiaMD, has raised $10 million in Series B venture capital. The money will allow Waltham, Mass.-based Quantia to start marketing its "physician relationship management" services and online community of more than 200,000 physicians to health systems.
Publicly traded venture capital firm Safeguard Scientifics contributed...
Manhattan Research shared a few more numbers from its annual "Taking the Pulse" online research survey of 2,950 physicians in a webinar this week. The numbers showed that smartphone, desktop and laptop use has leveled out among physicians while tablet adoption has risen to 72 percent, up from 62 percent last year. The 62 percent number was a surprise for Manhattan last year, more than doubling...
Waltham, Massachusetts-based QuantiaMD, which offers a mobile and online physician community and collaboration platform, raised a $12 million round of funding from return backer Fuse Capital. The company plans to use the funds for building out its platform's capabilities and better meet the needs of payers, health systems, and others who leverage QuantiaMD to engage with physicians. It will also...
About 76 percent of small- and medium-sized medical and dentals offices plan to purchase tablets in the next year, according to research firm NPD Group's recently published Third Quarter SMB Technology Report. What's more, these practices expect to spend about $6,800 on tablets, NPD told DOTmed news. NPD conducted the survey in September 2011.
NPD's report has a much broader focus. The key...
Quantia announced this week the release of DailyCoach, a fitness coaching app for its QuantiaCare platform. The app, a free download for iOS and Android, is a collaboration with Gary Scheiner, founder of Integrated Diabetes Services, which focuses on intensive blood glucose control and lifestyle intervention for diabetics. QuantiaCare is a collection of mobile and web-based health management and...
More than 30 percent of US physicians now use tablets, according to a recent study of more than 3,700 physicians conducted by QuantiaMD. Of those using tablets, almost 20 percent are already using the device in clinical settings. QuantiaMD also coined a term for the 25 percent of physicians that use both a smartphone and a tablet: "Super Mobile" physicians. Not surprisingly, this group is...
