Healthcare

20 stories about Healthcare
מוסף שבועי 10.9.20 ד"ר פיטר סקוט־מורגן

Mind over Matter: The man who turned himself into a cyborg to overcome ALS

13.09.20|Yoghev Carmel
After Peter Scott-Morgan was given a year to live, he decided to fight his fate and employed cutting edge technology to stay alive and remain human
ד"ר דנה בר און Dr. Dana Bar-on

Teva is recruiting Israeli academia to help produce its next breakthrough drug

13.09.20|CTech
You reap what you sow: The pharmaceutical giant is partnering up with researchers to try and find the next Copaxone
גלית הורוביץ מייסדת Welltech1

Welltech1 announces $400,000 investment in winner of global wellness startup competition

31.08.20|CTech
PopBase is a storybook game that helps kids make healthy life choices; “Our portfolio reflects the diversity in the field,” says Welltech1 co-founder Galit Horovitz
 Pitango HealthTech Fund: Ittai Harel (left), Managing Partner; Maya Perl, Principal; Guy Ezekiel,

250 companies and $6.5 billion: An in-depth look at Israel’s healthtech industry

27.08.20|Maya Perl, Ittai Harel, Guy Ezekiel
Israeli healthcare startups are no longer relying solely on technology, clinical data, or IP to generate value. They are reinventing business models and elevating the industry.
מואב ורדי

The public deserves a healthier healthcare industry

27.08.20|Moav Gafni
he coronavirus pandemic has called the FDA's bluff. The public now knows that when necessary, it is entirely possible to make significant shortcuts that save years of development and billions of dollars
קרן אלייב מימין: מישל חביב פרופ' רפי ביאר  ופרופ' ארי שמיס

ALIVE Fund leads financing round for mitral heart valve maker Innovalve

23.08.20|Hagar Ravet
“After investing in a company, we are capable of promoting it in Israel and the U.S. through experiments, pilot programs, or sales agreements,” says partner Michel Habib
גל סלומון clew

With FDA approval in hand and Covid-19 as a test case, Israel’s Clew is ready for its money time

23.06.20|Allon Sinai
“This is a product we have been working on for years and from that perspective, Covid-19 showcased everything we have been saying,” says CEO Gal Salomon
איתמר לוי מנכ"ל מאדרס צ'ויס Mother's Choice

Mother’s Choice announces $10 million raise led by foreign investors

07.06.20|Meir Orbach
Jerusalem based company also announced the appointment of a new CEO
נעמי קריגר כרמי רשות החדשנות

Nearly $3 million earmarked for innovative Israeli tech for people with disabilities

07.06.20|Hagar Ravet
Israel Innovation Authority and National Insurance Funds want to promote research and development of life-changing technologies
רן פוליאקין מנכ"ל ננוקס

SK Telecom is investing $20 million in Israel-based Nanox

04.06.20|Meir Orbach
Partners plan to launch a South Korean subsidiary to produce semiconductors for Nanox’s digital X-ray device
ערן אדן MeMed

MeMed Receives Regulatory Green Light for Test that can Greatly Reduce Antibiotics Prescriptions

02.06.20|Omer Kabir
Israel-based company tests the immune system’s reaction to infection rather than the infection itself
אהרון אהרון מנכל רשות החדשנות

Innovation Authority Invites Israeli Companies to Participate in Pilot with World-Leading Medical Centers

13.05.20|Hagar Ravet
The IIA program will offer financial support of up to 50% of the project’s approved research and development budget.
גיא מגר סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות ארליסנס

Covid-19 Gave Medtech a Push Forward, Says EarlySense CTO

12.05.20|CTech
Guy Meger, the chief technology officer of nonintrusive patient monitoring company EarlySense, believes the pandemic helped eliminate innovation-blocking hurdles
Lachlan Towart

Telemedicine, Which Gained Momentum due to Covid-19, Will be with us Long After it Recedes

06.05.20|Lachlan Towart
Just as what counts as normal in our day-to-day lives may be changing, what counts as normal in healthcare provision will also change
עובדי מדטרוניק מכונות הנשמה

A 100-Kilometer Commute to Save Israel's Aging Ventilator Machines

06.04.20|Udi Etsion
With less than a month to retirement, Rudin Rosenzweig, the head of Medtronic’s Israel lab, makes the long daily commute to fix old decommissioned ventilators and help the country meet its Covid-19 needs
apifix אפיפיקס עקמת נעורים

OrthoPediatrics Acquires ApiFix For $67 Million

02.04.20|Hagar Ravet
ApiFix develops a minimally invasive, deformity correction system for the treatment of progressive adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
לשכת התעסוקה ב תל אביב אבטלה מובטלים דורשי עבודה מיתון

Israel Is Tanking its Economy to Save a Few Hundred People, Finance Ministry Officials Say

31.03.20|Adrian Filut
The Israeli finance ministry estimates the difference between a partial and full lockdown at tens of billions of shekels. To the health ministry, that is the difference between containment and a collapse of the country’s healthcare system—and the many deaths that would follow
בדיקת קורונה תל אביב

To Lift the Lockdown, Israel Needs 30,000 Covid-19 Tests a Day, Says Health Exec

31.03.20|Adrian Filut
Sigal Regev-Rozenberg, CEO of Israel’s third largest health maintenance organization Meuhedet, says that even though the main focus is on hospitals, community medicine is taking the brunt of the coronavirus crisis
משה בר סימן טוב מסיבת עיתונאים על נגיף קורונה

Israel Is at a Critical Time for its Covid-19 Response, Says Health Official

26.03.20|Zvi Zerahia
According to Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov, director-general of the Israeli health ministry, Israel is seeing the number of its confirmed cases double every three days
רחובות ריקים תל אביב קורונה ישראל

Israel Enters First Full Day of New Restrictions With 2,495 Confirmed Cases

26.03.20|CTech
The new restrictions ban residents from leaving their homes for a distance of over 100 meters