The Forum on Healthcare Innovation, a collaboration between Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Medical School (HMS), recently announced the finalists of their Harvard Health Acceleration Challenge: Bloodbuy, I-Pass, Medalogix and Twine.
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Dallas, Texas-based healthcare technology startup Bloodbuy is using South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) to pilot its technology in connection with Harvard Forum on Healthcare Innovation. Once again taking the lead in cutting-edge medical research, STBTC and BioBridge Global will figure prominently in a Harvard Business School case study that will be presented by the Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School's at the Forum on Healthcare Innovation conference in April.
Read MoreBloobuy Ranks #2 on Healthcare Global's Top 10→
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The Dallas, Texas-based health care company offers a patent pending technology that connects hospitals and blood centers nationwide to ensure the efficient flow of life-saving blood products to patients in need. Hospital benefits: A direct access to a diversified base of premier blood centers. Blood center benefits: A direct reach to a broader base of hospitals across multiple geographies.
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The Forum on Health Care Innovation, a collaboration between Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), announced today the four finalists in its Health Acceleration Challenge, which focuses on taking compelling, already-implemented health care solutions and helping them to grow and increase their impact through powerful networking and funding opportunities.
Read MoreDallas Business Journal features Bloodbuy→
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A Dallas company that allows blood to flow where it is needed - in a geographic rather than circulatory sense - has won a prestigious award from the Harvard Forum on Healthcare Innovation.
Bloodbuy capitalized on the fact that blood is a core commodity of health care and built a cloud-based platform that addresses the uneven geographic distribution of available blood supply, in real-time.
Read MoreBloodbuy's Founder featured in Brown University News→
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A Brown University School of Professional Studies graduate student has been named a finalist in a Harvard-sponsored competition to promote ideas that improve health care. Chris Godfrey of Dallas-based Bloodbuy will share a $150,000 award from the Health Acceleration Challenge with three other finalists. For developing a way to overcome the geographic unevenness of the nation’s blood supply, Chris Godfrey, a graduate student in Brown University’s Masters in Healthcare Leadership program has won a share of $150,000 in a Harvard-sponsored healthcare innovation competition.
Read MoreBoston Globe features Bloodbuy→
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A third finalist is Bloodbuy, a Dallas company that designed a price-matching system, similar to Priceline, to link hospitals with blood banks. The cost and supply of donor blood varies with geography and season. Bloodbuy allows hospitals to choose a location and set pricing for the supply they need, then matches them with blood centers that qualify.
Read MorePharmaExec Magazine features Bloodbuy→
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As the US healthcare system stumbles toward a new consensus built around the "triple aim" of increased access, improved quality, and lower cost, the push is on for new ideas that can test the boundaries of current practice. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates a range of incentives to promote this goal, which has added to the momentum around novel reform approaches.
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