Thousands of health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors gathered last week in Orlando, FL, for the annual HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition. This week-long event — considered to be the Super Bowl for health IT specialists — is the largest healthcare technology conference in the world. Interestingly, the state of Georgia is considered to be […]
Rimidi, an Atlanta-based digital health startup addressing chronic conditions, has partnered with CVS on a pilot to try to reduce diabetes in underserved neighborhoods in Atlanta. The pilot will work by engaging diabetes patients or those at a high risk for the disease both digitally and in-person. The focus is Atlanta’s “Tri-Cities”, an area composed […]
Digital health startup Rimidi, formerly known as Rimidi Diabetes, has made its expanded mission official on the heels of a $6.575 million funding round. The capital came from new investors, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company and Turner Investments, as well as existing investors Cox Enterprises, Village Capital, The Jump Fund and JAMB Global. Prior […]
This past weekend, Silicon Valley-based seed fund 500 Startups hosted a Unity and Inclusion Summit in Atlanta to gather preeminent investors, veteran and first-time entrepreneurs, and technology educators and students for a day of off-the-record, candid conversations about how diversity affects building a business, seeking funding, and building a team. The event, held at TechSquare […]
Over 29 million people in the United States have diabetes, a chronic disease that remains the 7th leading cause of death in the country. So, in an effort to alleviate the delivery of diabetes care, Atlanta-based Rimidi created Diabetes+Me, a cloud-based platform that identifies and closes gaps in managing the condition – and it’s working. Patients […]