Deal Radar 2009: WaveMark

A recent widely-cited poll by PriceWaterhouseCoopers says that three-quarters of Americans want healthcare reform in President Obama’s first term. Such reform must reduce the cost of administering care, and many industry observers agree one way to achieve this is through higher levels of computerization. Over the past two months, Deal Radar has featured several companies that are using technology and automation to bring down costs in various aspects of the Healthcare industry, from running physicians’ offices to nurse staffing to clinical trials. Today, I draw your attention to Massachusetts-based WaveMark, a Healthcare IT provider. >>>

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Deal Radar 2009: eMeter

It appears that President Obama’s Energy Policy will include substantial spending on smart grid technologies. Let’s look at one.

San Mateo, CA-based eMeter provides enterprise scale energy information management solutions for the utility mass market with the goal of saving electricity by educating customers on efficient electricity usage. Its flexible SOA-compliant architecture integrates easily into existing IT infrastructures. The company provides software that enables utility companies to monitor their resource usage, leading to energy management, reliable service and reduced costs. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Sungevity

Sungevity uses the Internet to offer its customers an easy and affordable way to buy and install solar rooftop panels. Customers only need to provide their address and some information about their current electricity usage and bill. In less than a day, with the use of satellite data, Sungevity studies the possibilities and comes back with a quote, telling them what their electricity savings over the next few years would be and how much of their electricity bill can be converted to solar energy, and showing illustrations of what their roof would look like with the solar panels on it.  >>>

Deal Radar 2009: EnergyWare

I last discussed ecological data centers in my interview with Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea, who is changing the physical structure of servers and data centers in order to cut energy use. Today’s Deal Radar highlights a different aspect of green computing, processor optimization, with a discussion of Blacksburg, Virginia-based EnergyWare. This early stage pre-revenue company makes a software package that maximizes processor performance while reducing energy use. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: DecisionView

DecisionView is a leading provider of web-based software solutions for the life sciences industry. These solutions help companies improve their clinical trial performance by making informed decisions through predictive analytics and scenario simulation and modeling. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: AdvancedMD

AdvancedMD, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a medical billing software provider. The company, formerly known as Perfect Practice, was launched in 2002. Its SaaS-based medical office management platform aims to offer a complete solution for billing, scheduling and practice management. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: GreenRoad

GreenRoad’s focus is to improve driver safety and significantly reduce crashes and fuel consumption. The company uses technology to change human behavior, encouraging people to make better choices about their driving. GreenRoad’s flagship service is the GreenRoad Safety Center, which combines in-vehicle technology with integrated web applications that rate driving skills and behavior, train drivers in real time by providing feedback as they drive, and sustain behavior improvement through continuous reinforcement. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: EnerNOC

Continuing our coverage of Cleantech, today’s Deal Radar features Boston-based EnerNOC. Founded in 2001 by Tim Healy and David Brewster, EnerNOC is an energy management solution provider. Though it provides technology-enabled energy management solutions such as monitoring-based commissioning and energy procurement services, its primary business is Demand Response (DR). The company aggregates excess electrical capacity at various industrial customers and sells it to utilities. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Jimmy Beans Wool

My regular readers know that one of the aims of both Entrepreneur Journeys and this blog is to promote entrepreneurship as way to take control of one’s future. In service of this aim, in 2009 the blog will continue to feature stories of people who were laid off from their jobs and made what is often a confidence-bruising event into an opportunity to pursue projects they were passionate about while creating jobs and wealth. Jimmy Beans Wool is one such example. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Revolabs

I have written extensively about eliminating unnecessary business travel and using technology such as conference calls and web conferencing to meet with colleagues in other cities or countries. LifeSize, Telenetix and Dimdim are three Deal Radar companies working to encourage the use of such collaboration technology. One of today’s covered companies, Revolabs, offers plug-and-play systems and applications for web- and tele-conferencing, but also focuses on wireless microphones designed to facilitate interaction among participants and allow for greater mobility in business and professional applications so that, for example, users can make calls from even noisy environments. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Neulio

My most recent Forbes column challenged entrepreneurs to develop technologies to enable the delivery of educational materials to all learners, even those whose only platform is an inexpensive handset. Today’s Deal Radar post looks at technology in education from another angle: in communities where the use of rich media for learning purposes has already gained critical mass, how can entrepreneurs help educators and learners tap its full potential by offering infrastructure solutions? One company tackling this question is Orlando-based Neulio, an educational video platform and hosting provider. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: ShiftWise

Our coverage of health care IT continues with Oregon-based ShiftWise, an SaaS health care solutions company. Founded in 2003, the company was formed when co-founder Jason Lander recognized the tremendous inefficiencies that existed in the then-manual process of managing temporary nurses. He created an automated process that helped hospitals and other health care providers find and book supplemental health care workers more easily. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Saki Seat

Along with posts on education and health care, Deal Radar will also be featuring entrepreneurs who have managed to turn adversity into opportunity. Today’s post looks at the story of Glen Malmskog, an electronics engineer by training who had been laid off from his job in the tech industry and switched to becoming an entrepreneur. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Studywiz Spark

In today’s second installment of the Deal Radar, we’ll also cover an online learning tool for K-12 education, Studywiz Spark. A service of Etech Group, Studywiz Spark was created by Geoff Elwood. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: ClickCare

Continuing our coverage on Healthcare IT, today’s Deal Radar looks at ClickCare, a web-based service that allows medical practitioners to discuss cases with their colleagues with the use of pictures, text, sound and video. They help practitioners to collaborate and communicate via the web to recommend the best care for their patients. >>>