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HealthVerity took home the title of 2018 Best Tech Startup from the Third Annual Philadelphia Timmy Awards ceremony after Tech in Motion announced the winners live in front of 300 tech enthusiasts, executives and entrepreneurs.

Jet lag is a strange and mysterious thing. In the middle of the night a few weeks ago I found myself on a treadmill in my Shanghai hotel gym riveted to the Poland vs Iran men’s volleyball match on Chinese State Television. It was a welcome respite from CNN International and the battering ram of worsening news on U.S. – China relations.

Bill Geary, co-chair of the upcoming DHIS, does Digital Health entrepreneurs a favor by spelling out what he sees as signs of a strong pitch. (See below.) We also review the highlights of the upcoming DHIS.

The sale of Circulation, which was a Flare Capital portfolio company, closed two weeks ago. The company successfully deployed a leading patient-centric transportation exchange for non-emergency medical rides (“NEMT”), leveraging a virtual national transportation provider network anchored by Lyft and Uber.

Having been chased out of Hong Kong by Super Typhoon Mangkhut on Friday, a few days in Singapore with investors and entrepreneurs offered a modest respite. Actually, no…it was the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix weekend at the sovereign city-state, which coincided with the Singapore Summit that convened global leaders (quite different from the notorious June 2018 summit with other leaders, Trump and Kim). Not surprisingly, Lewis Hamilton below in the silver “car” (more like a rocket with wheels) won the race.