healthcare

Emdeon shares may get 'bump', but analyst prefers Passport's posture

Sep 21, 2009 at 09:59 am by miltcapps

Updated 4:11 PM, Sept. 21: Caris & Co. is the only non-underwriter who initiated coverage as the Emdeon quiet period ended. New raters with their names on the pr.... Read More

Venture Strategy: HealthTeacher mobilizing community allies to advance contract sales

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

HealthTeacher, which supports K-12 health teachers, aims to attract community funding for its customers' purchases, nationwide. With U.S. schools' budgets drained and health.... Read More

TNInvestco: 'Creativity incredible' among interested firms

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:58 p.m. Sept. 17, 2009: Coleman Swenson Crist; Southern Appalachian TNInvestco Management Co. LLC; and, Richland Ventures IV LLC have now also applied for TNInvestco.... Read More

Duthie sells e-learning biz to May's bytes of knowledge

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

Update: 21 December 2022 - Bytes of Knowledge announced selling to IT VOICE, based in Texas, on undisclosed terms. Release here. Our September 2009 story is below.-Editor Bob.... Read More

HealthStream performance draws analyst's tough love

Sep 10, 2009 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

On Sept. 22, HealthStream and Quorum announced a new alliance that should heighten synergies between HealthStream's e-learning and research divisions and their new partner. Ou.... Read More

Resource: TNInvestco briefing registrants

Aug 14, 2009 at 09:31 am by miltcapps

Here are the firms that were registered to attend one or both of the two TNInvestco briefings. Firms that had representatives attending the briefings, but who are not listed b.... Read More

Dream Systems founder targets healthcare technology

Aug 11, 2009 at 04:54 pm by miltcapps

[Editor's note: Terriance Moody died May 9, 2019. Obit here.] A company's world vision depends partly on its prism: Within Dream Systems LLC, the prism is video, and the world.... Read More

Mergers & Acquisitions: Mountain Group Capital targets solid companies owned by 'Boomers

Aug 06, 2009 at 03:32 pm by miltcapps

At the moment, Mountain Group Capital sees a "lack of quality deals" as more of a problem than lack of capital, according to Principal Joe C. Cook III. However, Coo.... Read More

Tazzle founder slips into town to capitalize on technology

Aug 06, 2009 at 11:40 am by miltcapps

A few days ago, Chris Savoie stood at a microphone in a local hotel ballroom and asked a question clearly out of step with conventional wisdom. The occasion was a panel discus.... Read More

C-level team-building: e+CancerCare names CAO

Aug 03, 2009 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

Update 2:45 p.m.:  Although e+CancerCare staff have not responded to a query regarding Lang Aston's duties, a contact at Stephens Inc. said today that Aston is e+'s chief.... Read More

Healthcare entrepreneurs, investors convene tomorrow

Aug 03, 2009 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

The nation's early-stage venture capital community is "broken," and VCs are investing "later and safer" in proven companies, rather than in startups. Fort.... Read More

Waddey Patterson IP lawyer ranks rising

Jul 22, 2009 at 01:24 pm by miltcapps

The lawyers at Waddey & Patterson PC, the Roundabout Plaza law firm that focuses on intellectual property, will soon number a baker's dozen. The firm recently hired Rebec.... Read More

Briefly: Ernst & Young VC watcher has eye on Nashville

Jul 21, 2009 at 08:39 am by miltcapps

Editor's note, Feb. 7, 2023: Since our story in July 2009, the first year of 'recovery' from the Great Recession, Bryan Pearce completed more than 38 years with E&Y, but h.... Read More

TTDC predicts venture-cap program will be 'over-subscribed'

Jul 16, 2009 at 03:13 pm by miltcapps

NOTE: At 10:40 a.m., VNC corrected a significant typo in the 18th graf of this story. - MFC Tennessee's recently enacted venture-capital initiative to stimulate funding for hi.... Read More

Rash hospital startup draws Warburg Pincus investment

Jul 15, 2009 at 04:09 pm by miltcapps

Update 22 March 2016 9:25a: RegionalCare and Capella Healthcare announced merger plans. Rash to chair, PE Apollo is driver. - Ed. Acquisition and operation of community hospit.... Read More

Medical Trade Center rivalry simmering twixt Nashville and New York

Jul 14, 2009 at 01:17 pm by miltcapps

If it involved a new musical opening on Broadway, New York City might wish Nashville and Cleveland good luck, by saying "Break a Leg!" as the curtain rises. In real.... Read More

VU Owen GSM's partnership awards EMBA tuition gift

Jul 13, 2009 at 08:27 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management recently announced its fourth gift of an executive MBA for a local nonprofit executive. Elizabeth H. 'Beth' Torres (at left),.... Read More

Healthtech: Zepherella's Tennessee roll-out set for Fall

Jul 13, 2009 at 08:27 am by miltcapps

[Updated: Zepherella rebranded at PatientPay in September 2012.-Ed.] Tennessee will soon be a testbed for Zepherella, a new online service that promises reduced sticker shock.... Read More

Update: Moontoast's cap round closes, CEO named

Jun 18, 2009 at 10:12 am by miltcapps

UPDATED and corrected 3:20 p.m. : Moontoast LLC, the online knowledge network, has completed a seed-round capital raise and named an acting chief executive. Accord.... Read More

Bredesen's Qualifacts, NC ally push for e-health consortia

Jun 16, 2009 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

Updated: NBJ reported April 14, 2016, that Qualifacts now has about 150 FTE and forecasts strong organic growth.-Ed. Nashville's Qualifacts Inc. and strategically well-placed.... Read More

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