Validic raises cash to turn mHealth app output into data hose

Oh yeah, he also peed on the floor.On Tuesday, he admitted to charges of criminal damage, racially aggravated harassment and outraging public decency. He will be sentenced December 3.Small didn't poop on the floor, but if he had, he would have been close to achieving the alleged trifecta of Florida resident and Weird News hero Gregory Matthew Bruni, aka., the alleged violent naked pooping masturbator.The index is up 0.4 percent this month, a muted gain fuel hose compared with October, when it rose 4.5 percent as investors bet that the Fed would continue with its economic stimulus after a 16-day government shutdown crimped growth and hurt consumer confidence.Rising use of Fitbit wristbands, Withings scales and other self-tracking devices mean individuals have access to a pool of personal health data that in some respects far exceeds what clinical trials gather. Now, Validic has secured funding from Dallas Mavericks-owner Mark Cuban to bring the devices into healthcare.I certainly did not have dry cleaning machine even a slightest idea of what was coming. 

Cuban led a $760,000 seed round that gives North Carolina-based Validic the cash to integrate data from self-tracking devices to make it more useful to biopharma and other healthcare players. Hospitals and insurers are two groups that could obviously benefit from the integrated data, but Validic is also pitching at biopharma. Its technology pulls in results from more than 75 mHealth sources--including companies such as Fitbit, Nike and Withings--and outputs a single data stream. 

With consent,That's better than the 4.9 percent growth recorded Tank truck hose in the second quarter and the 2.4 percent growth in the same period a year ago. a clinical trial could use this to monitor a participant's weight, heart rate, blood pressure and other factors between site visits. Each of these capabilities is available already, but Validic thinks there is a need to break down the walls between datasets from different devices. "Smartphones are pervasive, Fitbits are now for everyone. The problem is that there are all of these disparate vendors and nobody can access the data in any uniform way," Validic Chief Technology Officer Drew Schiller told ExitEvent. 

The Presbyterian College football team plays its first road game in three weeks as the Blue Hose travel to Lynchburg, Va., to take on the Liberty Flames Saturday, Nov. 9, at 3:30 p.m., in a Big South match-up. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3, as well as on WKRI i91.9-FM.The Flames own a 6-4 mark over the Blue Hose. The last game between the two schools in Lynchburg was a 27-20 Flame double overtime win. PC led 10-6 late in the fourth quarter before Liberty scored with 1:26 left in the game to make it 13-10. The Blue Hose came back to force overtime with a 22-yard field goal by Aaron Mayes.