EDISON AWARDS / Issue #17
August 27, 2014
Alleviating the Headache of Medical Bills
Citi introduces innovative solution, Money2 for Health
Money2SM for Health is a new multi-plan, multi-provider, consumer-centric patient payment solution to help patients easily pay medical bills. This innovative solution is designed to simplify and enhance the healthcare payment experience across all stakeholders: reducing patient confusion and providing flexible, easy and convenient ways to pay medical bills, accelerating payments to providers, and reducing costs for both providers and insurers.  More  

Dollars for Devices 

EcoATM expands its presence in Dallas

San Diego-based ecoATM, a nationwide network of automated electronics recycling kiosks, is adding 16 kiosks in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, bringing its total to 32 in shopping malls and select Walmart stores  More
 

 

The Giver
AT&T's Text-to-Donate puts generosity at your fingertips
When Hurricane Katrina battered the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts in August 2005, Marian Croak, senior vice president of applications and services infrastructure at AT&T, envisioned how this technology could be used for something more: a tool to enable people to rapidly and efficiently donate money to charitable groups responding to natural disasters. She developed and patented the concept  More 
Healthy Growth
Kabbage gains $270 million in funding
Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners. More

 

A New Way to Get Squared Up
Square introduces invoicing to the register lineup
Square adds Square Invoices to its increasingly robust register service. Sellers can get paid fast with free unlimited invoices and no monthly service fee. Now sellers can accept payments in person, online in Square Market, and through Square Invoices for the same low 2.75% transaction price. Sellers can track all sales from their Square Dashboard, making it easy to manage all of their business operations from one place More
Finance 101
Examining the cost of today's education

 

Families are becoming deliberate about analyzing college costs and have been adopting strategies to pick more affordable options and cut some borrowing. Yet, while watching costs, 98 percent of students and their parents continue to consider paying for college worth the expense, according to a national study done by Ipsos Public Affairs for Sallie Mae. More 

 

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Click here for a Nomination Form Template, so you can start working on crafting your submission and be ready when the competition opens on September 1st. 
Mayo Clinic

Center for Innovation Transform 2014
September 7-9

 

The Transform symposium is the multidisciplinary conference for thought-provoking, inspiring ideas hosted by the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation.  Learn More Here 

Edison Awards Steering Committee Spotlight 

 

David Brenner 

Executive Director Innovation Park  

at Notre Dame

 

"The mission of Innovation Park is to assist aspiring entrepreneurs to engage the right resources at the right time to transform their new business idea into a viable enterprise. This demands not only a great idea that addresses a genuine market problem, but also the full-time engagement of a qualified, 'energized' entrepreneur to lead the effort. The Park is positioned to lend appropriate assistance to the new venture team in this "march to market" through engagement with qualified mentors and other expert sources who have traveled a similar path in the past." 
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