News Archive

2012

+ March
March 15, 2012
Featured Startup Pitch: Healthrageous
Featured Startup Pitch: Healthrageous offers a ‘digital coach’ that employs advanced social tools and individual analysis to improve overall personal health.

+ February
February 08, 2012
Healthrageous Signs Co-Marketing Agreement with Telcare
Healthrageous, Inc., a digital health management company, announced today that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with Telcare to leverage the Telcare BGM, the industry’s first FDA-cleared cellular-enabled blood glucose meter.

+ January
January 12, 2012
Healthrageous Collaborates with Ford, Microsoft on In-Car Health
Ford, Microsoft Corp. and Healthrageous are researching how connected devices can help people monitor and maintain health and wellness.

+ November
November 01, 2011
White Paper: The Healthrageous Effect
A dynamically personalized, behavioral change solution that benefits individuals, employers, and health plans.

+ September
September 22, 2011
The Quantified-Self Business
Healthrageous offers tools to track progress toward health goals, but its most valuable asset may be data about you.

+ July
July 08, 2011
Healthrageous scores $2.5M for connected health
Healthrageous Inc., a Boston personalized connected health startup, has raised $2.5 million in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing.

+ June
June 14, 2011
Healthrageous Announces Scientific Advisory Board and Appointment of Chief Science Officer
Betsy Barbeau, ScD, MPH, named Chief Science Officer

BOSTON, MA, JUNE 14, 2011 – Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized connected health technology company, today announced...

+ May
May 16, 2011
Tapping into smart health
Growing numbers of mobile applications are aimed at keeping patients engaged in their treatment

Dale Hoyt sees his cardiologist every six weeks at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he’s never out of touch for long. Every day, he...
May 16, 2011
Healthrageous counts 1,000 users
The Boston Globe has a high-level overview of some recent (small scale) efficacy studies about mobile health as well as a few updates on Boston-area companies and individuals working in mobile health today...

+ February
February 09, 2011
Evaluating Connected Health Interventions In The Era Of Personalized Medicine
The concept of connected health recently received a blow when an article entitled “Telemonitoring in Patients with Heart Failure” appeared on December 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The headline offered by this study was that “telemonitoring does not work”. More accurately, ...
February 02, 2011
White Paper: Design Principles for Effective Health Incentives
Incentives aren’t living up to their full potential Employers and health plans spend lots of money on incentives designed to improve productivity and reduce absences; health plans want individuals...

+ January
January 24, 2011
Pyxis Mobile Software Enables Healthrageous to Launch Ground-Breaking Health Management Mobile Application
Using Pyxis Mobile’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), early stage startup launches new mobile app, h!GO, to help individuals reach their personal health goals

Waltham, MA, January 24, 2011 -- Healthrageous, a personalized connected health technology company, recently announced the release of...
January 10, 2011
White Paper: Positively Changing Health Behaviors and Outcomes: The Case for Real-time Dynamic Personalization
Far too many people are not yet invested in their own health and medical care. Their behaviors and health-related choices make them more likely to become seriously ill, contributing significantly...
January 10, 2011
Dynamic Personalization Key to Motivating and Sustaining Health Behaviors
Learning from emerging consumer trends, Healthrageous applies Dynamic Personalization to Drive Engagement in Health Behavior

BOSTON, Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Applying dynamic personalization technology improves

+ December
December 13, 2010
This fitness ‘coach’ fits on your iPhone
Healthrageous Inc., based in Boston, wants to make monitoring your blood glucose and blood pressure feel less like a medical routine than a relationship with a personal fitness coach...
December 07, 2010
Healthrageous Launches New Mobile Platform to Meet Individual Needs of Health Consumers Via Personalized Self-Management and Wellness Tools
BOSTON, Dec. 7, 2010 -- Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized connected health technology company, today announced the launch of its new mobile app, h!GO...

+ November
November 09, 2010
Healthrageous Selected as a Dow Jones VentureWire Start-Up to Watch for Its Innovative Personalized Connected Health Platform
BOSTON, MA AND REDWOOD CITY, CA, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 – Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized connected health technology company, was selected by...

+ September
September 14, 2010
Healthrageous Builds Team To Support Innovative Product Platform and Development Programs to Improve Consumer Health
Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized connected health technology company, today announced the addition of four seasoned...

+ June
June 10, 2010
Healthrageous: A Novel Idea Becomes a Reality
Four years ago, I was invited to an exploratory meeting with senior executives at EMC Corporation in Hopkinton...
June 10, 2010
Healthrageous Has An App For Your Health, Raises $6M
Healthrageous Inc. wants to send you a text message telling you how you have been doing on your weight-loss plan, and said...
June 09, 2010
Hop Skip Connect renames to Healthrageous, raises $6M seris A round
Partners Healthcare spinoff Hop Skip Connect Inc. has an oversubscribed Series A round and a new name...
June 09, 2010
HopSkipConnect, now Healthrageous snags $6M
Partners Healthcare spinoff Hop Skip Connect (based partially on the Partners blood pressure program SmartBeat) has renamed to Healthrageous and announced a $6 million first round of investment...
June 09, 2010
Healthrageous Snags $6M to Combat Unhealthy Behaviors
We eat ice cream before bedtime. Sleep in rather than rising early to jog. And forget to take our medicine...