Catching Errors
MIT Alumni develop solution that flags medication mistakes at the hospital bedside
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MIT Alumni Created Drug Safety Technology
MedEye uses computer vision to prevent incorrect drug administration.
An end to drug errors?
"MIT alumni entrepreneurs Gauti Reynisson MBA ’10 and Ívar Helgason HS ’08 spent the early 2000s working for companies that implemented medication-safety technologies — such as electronic-prescription and pill-barcoding systems — at hospitals in their native Iceland and other European countries."
Healthcare IT in Europe
The US health IT space is white hot. Europe lags far behind both in the number of companies and in the amount of money being invested. There have been very few (no?) exits. I was wondering if Europe will ever catch up and which companies and geographies are emerging winners. So I decided to survey a half-dozen Europe-based VC partners active in healthcare investing some of whom have taken their first tentative steps into health IT investing. Here’s what I found out..
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Mint Solutions Using $6M to Solve a Serious Problem in Hospitals
As you read this, more than 2.7 million people are in one of the 6,000 hospitals scattered across Europe. By this time tomorrow, healthcare workers will have administered over 40 million doses of medicine to those patients. Most of the time, it goes right.
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Why Europe's Hottest Med Tech Entrepreneurs Are Pitching Up In The Netherlands
Mint Solutions is the company behind MedEye, a high tech medication verification system designed to tackle what has become a major problem for the medical profession – and for patients – that of the incorrect administration of medication. Describing the scale of the problem, Reynisson says: “In the next 24 hours, patients in 6000 European hospitals will be getting over 40 million dosages of medication, yet one in five of these will be given incorrectly by the hospital nurse at the bedside.”
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Mint Solutions raises EUR 4.4 mln in a Series A
Amsterdam , the Netherlands, July 8 2014 – Mint Solutions Holding BV (Mint Solutions) has raised EUR 4.425 million in Series A funding led by Life Sciences Partners (LSP) and co-led by Seventure Partners with participation from existing investors. As part of this investment the company will relocate headquarters to the Netherlands to further grow sales of their flagship MedEye product.
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MedEye Pill-Scanning Medical Safety Tech Pulls In $6M
Mint Solutions, a hardware startup that’s developed a device designed to help hospital nurses ensure each patient gets the right medicine and the correct dosage, has pulled in a €4.425 million ($6 million) Series A funding round.
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Record funding for Mint
Mint Solutions recent round of funding makes it the largest Series A coming out of a Startup Bootcamp accelerator. Article download available here
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Mint Solutions chosen to enter HighTechXL program
Mint Solutions was selected to join the HighTechXL program from among hundreds of companies. The HighTechXL program will help Mint Solutions expand its footprint and sales in the Netherlands.
The announcement and more details on the program can be found here.
Mint Solutions selected to J&J Digital Health Masterclass
Mint Solutions was selected by J&J from applicants across Europe to join their Master Class, a curriculum focused on growing healthcare IT businesses culminating with a demo at the Health 2.0 conference in London.
More details on the program can be found here.