Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in new capital and expanded its market. The Seattle-based company is… Read More
DocNow, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round to expand its platform that provides electronic medical records, helping providers connect patients to care needed after hospital stays.… Read More
Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at its health care units, Amazon Pharmacy and the primary care company One Medical, the tech giant confirmed Tuesday. In a statement and memo… Read More
Almost eight months after closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical, Amazon is making health care through the platform a benefit for Prime members. For $9… Read More
Microsoft joined a growing list of companies that have said they will assist with expenses if employees have to travel for abortions or gender-affirming health care. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech… Read More
Boise, Id.-based Engage Technologies Group closed a $15 million Series A funding round for its mobile patient platform targeted for the cosmetic, optometry, dental, and orthopedic industries. Founded in 2016,… Read More
Nicole Magaki doesn’t just want to be a doctor. She wants to help doctors help more people. A 17-year-old from Des Moines, Wash., Nicole has long had an interest in… Read More
It has been nearly two decades since scientists accomplished the first complete sequencing of the human genome. This historic moment gave us an unprecedented view of human DNA, the genetic… Read More
When Khin Latt was a young girl growing up in Myanmar (Burma), she wanted to be an engineer, work for NASA, go to the moon and visit Mars. Perhaps’s she’ll… Read More
If you want a glimpse at medicine’s track record against Alzheimer’s, look no further than the numbers: Pharmaceutical companies have recorded a 99 percent failure rate against the disease, spending… Read More
In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates has no doubt been presented with a range of evolving… Read More
Insurance benefits, primary care and pharmacy costs will be at the center of the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, according to a report from The… Read More
Serkan Kutan, an Amazon and Microsoft veteran who was most recently chief technology officer at medical appointment booking company Zocdoc, has been named CTO of the health care joint venture launched… Read More
Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants. Earlier this month, UnitedHealth Group filed a lawsuit against a… Read More
Seattle-area health technology company Aduro has landed a $22 million investment to help company employees “be great at anything.” The funding, announced Wednesday, is Aduro’s first outside investment. It came from… Read More
It’s been one day short of a year since Microsoft partnered with Adaptive Biotechnologies to create a blood test with the promise of diagnosing dozens of diseases at once. The… Read More
Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get a handle on all the data that medical devices were… Read More
“I’m still just floored by how little technology is actually used in the entire healthcare market,” said Lizza Miller, co-founder and president of Seattle-based DatStat. More than 20 years ago,… Read More
Illnesses, accidents and moms going into labor don’t happen on predictable schedules, and that can make hospital staffing a tricky business. Historically managers would work off a phone tree to… Read More
Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, selling garbage bags to scrounge together enough money… Read More
A county-by-county survey of U.S. life expectancy reports a 20-year gap between the lows and the highs – a gap that correlates with socioeconomic factors, race and ethnicity, and the availability… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks Alexa, the virtual assistant that powers Echo devices, could be a useful tool for health care providers and patients. “We do have people at Amazon… Read More
President Barack Obama stated the obvious today during what almost sounded like a farewell address to the tech community he loves. “I confess, I am a science geek,” he said… Read More
Someday soon, your physician may be second-guessed by an artificial intelligence program – and you’ll probably be healthier for it, according to Microsoft Research’s Eric Horvitz. Horvitz, a research fellow and managing… Read More
Good news: Arivale co-founder Leroy Hood says he can “almost guarantee” there’ll be ways to keep yourself physically and mentally fit into your 90s. “You’re going to have to decide on… Read More
The non-profit Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle-based biomedical research organization that has spun off eight companies in the past 15 years, is joining Providence Health & Services in a new affiliation — planning to bring ISB’s focus… Read More
Amazon will offer up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new moms, provide up to six weeks of paid leave for new dads, and offer employees the ability to “share” their… Read More
Premera Blue Cross is offering free credit monitoring from Experian to help protect customers from a sophisticated online attack that potentially gave hackers access to personal information from up to 11 million of its… Read More
Microsoft will require its suppliers to give their employees who do work for the Redmond company at least 15 days of paid leave each year — a new policy that could… Read More
I read the recent GeekWire article about how dozens of tech, education and nonprofit execs urge passage of Washington computer science bill. I’m a natural supporter of that. I’m a… Read More