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שירותי בריאות כללית קופת חולים כללית נתניה

Israeli HMO Chairman in Talks for New Health Fund

04.11.19|Adrian Filut
Clalit Chairman Eli Admoni is aiming to create a fund that will invest in medical device companies and in technologies that could help improve and make community medicine more efficient
רופא מומחה קופת חולים קופות חולים מחלה

7 Startups for Prostate Health

03.11.19|Adi Pick and Elham Nasser Eddin
In the U.S. alone, about 174,650 new cases of prostate cancer will have been diagnosed in 2019 and around 31,620 people will have died from the disease
מוסף ניתוח מנתחים רופא רופאים חדר ניתוח

Health Tech Startup Vim Raises $24 Million

09.09.19|Meir Orbach
Founded in 2015, Vim develops an online service that helps patients and healthcare providers find, schedule, and receive care from doctors and specialists
חדר מיון בית חולים וולפסון

Israel Spent More on Health in 2018, Still Below OECD Average

19.08.19|Lilach Baumer
Last year, Israel spent 7.6% of its GDP on health, a 4.3% increase from 2017. The OECD average was 8.8% that same year
ליהיא סגל DayTwo

Israeli Gut Microbiome Analysis Startup DayTwo Raises $31 Million

26.06.19|Hagar Ravet
DayTwo offers personalized nutrition optimization suggestions based on feces analysis, designed to reduce risk of diabetes and other metabolic diseases
שביתת אחיות בית חולים איכילוב 2012

Cybersecurity Startup Cynerio Raises $7 Million

09.01.19|Adi Pick
Cynerio develops cybersecurity protections for medical devices, comparing network behavior with a database of medical workflows
אסתר חיות 100 המשפיעים

Israel’s Supreme Court Weighs In on Single-Vendor Ban on Juul

06.11.18|Adi Pick and Adrian Filut
Following a September appeal by E-Cigarette maker Juul, Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s health ministry to hold a hearing for all relevant companies in Israel
אפל ווטש שעון חכם מחשוב לביש

The Inevitable Fall of Apple’s Fall Detection Feature

23.09.18|Amit Shafrir
Former AOL executive Amit Shafrir explains why he believes Apple’s fall detection feature will have little to no effect on the number of U.S. senior citizens suffering fall-related injuries every year
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Israel Catches the Digital Health Virus

31.08.18|Tofi Stoler
While Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva continues to stumble, small startups developing new technologies for treating, diagnosing and alleviating medical conditions are steering ahead
 טלי נחושתן מנכ"לית InnovoPro תחרות פודטק 2018

Alternative Protein Startups Win Calcalist’s Foodtech Innovation Competition

09.08.18|Tomer Hadar, Naomi Zoref, and Inbal Omer
InnovoPro, which develops a technology for extracting concentrated protein from chickpeas, and Hargol FoodTech, a commercial grasshopper farming startup, were selected out of 10 finalists
זקנים זיקנה פנסיה דמי ניהול פרישה חיסכון

Israeli Technologies Taking On the Challenges of Old Age

03.08.18|Eze Vidra
Venture capitalist Eze Vidra highlights 11 Israeli tech companies that will help grandma do more than cross the road
מוטי שניברג  CyberMDX

Medical Cybersecurity Startup CyberMDx Raises $10 Million

17.07.18|Tofi Stoler
CyberMDx’s system monitors a medical facility’s network to automatically identify the most crucial devices and assess potential risks
A colony of haploid human embryonic stem cells תאי גזע

NewStem, Which Screens Patients for Resistance to Chemotherapy, Raises $2 Million

16.07.18|Asaf Shalev
The Jerusalem-based startup is creating a proprietary database of mutated genes that cause resistance to different types of chemotherapeutic agents
בריאות דיגיטלית מדעי החיים רפואה טיפול 2

Personal Health Assistant Startup Brook Raises $4 Million

13.06.18|CTech
Independent Health, a Western New York State health plan, participated in the funding round
מוסף ניתוח מנתח מנתחים רופא רופאים

Heart Monitoring Company CardiacSense Raises Funds to License Device

27.05.18|Lilach Baumer
The Israel-based company develops a watch-like device that monitors arrhythmia and blood pressure
חנות לממכר ביטקוין ב ת"א תל אביב

CTech’s Thursday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

17.05.18|CTech
Watchdog tells Israeli prime minister and ministers they cannot buy cryptocurrencies. Israeli-made UAV dumps skunk-water on Gaza protesters.
דפנה קולר מייסדת ו נשיאה  קורסרה coursera הוועידה המוטסת גלריה

Coursera Co-Founder Daphne Koller Launches New AI Drug Development Startup

06.05.18|Tofi Stoler
In February, Ms. Koller left her position as chief computing officer at Google’s biotech company Calico
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Pharma Company Opko Health Retracts Decision to Delist From the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

29.04.18|Racheli Bindman
Dually listed on Nasdaq and TASE, Opko first submitted a request to delist from the TASE in early April
מעבדה לגידול קנביס רפואי מריחואנה

Israeli Cannabis Device Developer Kanabo to Set Up Marijuana Farm in Europe

27.04.18|Tofi Stoler
To carry out the plan, Kanabo is partnering with San Francisco-Based Cannabis Extract Manufacturer Constance Therapeutics
מצפה רמון אסטרונאוטים d-mars

CTech's Tuesday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

24.04.18|CTech
The challenges of living on Mars: air, water, lack of personal space. Israeli lawmaker’s Twitter account suspended after tweet saying Palestinian girl in custody should have been shot