With an ever-growing mountain of health-related data and a federal mandate to make more of it digital and shareable, information technology is in high demand among hospitals, physicians, insurers, government administrators and other players.
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And that’s encouraging the formation of new health IT-focused accelerator programs designed to seed young start-ups. In the past couple of months, two such programs have started up — one in Chicago called Healthbox, the other in San Francisco called Rock Health.
Healthbox is operated by Chicago-based incubator and venture firm Sandbox Industries, which raised an $18 million fund in 2009 and also operates as fund manager for BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, the investment wing of the health-insurance giant.
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Author:
Timothy Hay
