Proteins, algorithms and apps — oh my! Health innovators across the Pacific Northwest continue to embrace technologies that go well beyond traditional drugs. The finalists for the Health Innovation of… Read More
Nanodropper, a medical device startup founded by a group of University of Washington students, has developed an adapter that makes eye drops smaller. It’s a way for people with glaucoma… Read More
Early Microsoft engineers and Intelius co-founder Chandan Chauhan are behind a stealthy telehealth startup that just launched its customer-facing product, four years after the company was founded. Seattle-area startup Clocktree… Read More
It has been more than a year since the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway was announced. Since then, we haven’t heard much — until now.… Read More
Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) that applies machine… Read More
Merck, one of the world’s largest drugmakers, agreed to buy Seattle-based biotechnology company Immune Design for $300 million in cash. The deal’s price tag, at $5.85 per share, amounted to… Read More
Patients with a rare disease often face a long and painful road to an accurate diagnosis. The process takes five years on average after they first show symptoms. In an effort to shorten… Read More
Beth Kolko’s superpower may not seem that out of the ordinary. She can’t see through walls, but she can see what’s wrong with the things we use in everyday life — problems… Read More
Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures, Pioneer Square Lab’s investment arm. The company is up and running with a platform that… Read More
Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its larger, even more audacious goal of changing how medicine is delivered.… Read More
Medical device maker Magnolia Medical raised $20 million to expand its platform for sepsis testing accuracy and to develop new products that prevent false positives in hospital tests. RTW Investments led… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent 20 years and $10 billion on issues of global health. In that time, the likelihood that a child would die before age… Read More
Providence Ventures has raised another $150 million fund to invest in early-stage healthcare technology companies, doubling the size of its investment portfolio to $300 million. The Seattle-based investment group launched… Read More
The stethoscope is an enduring symbol of medicine, but the long-serving tool isn’t actually as effective as you might think. One study found that doctors in three countries could only… Read More
Health technology is hot. But there are mixed feelings about aging a century or more beyond the typical current human lifespan. Our Geek on the Street question for this episode… Read More
More than 20 years ago, Claudia Mitchell arrived in Paris to pursue a doctorate degree in molecular biology — with a 4-month-old baby in tow. She had no close friends or… Read More
98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing an entirely virtual primary care service, has raised $50 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. The new funds, announced Tuesday… Read More
The number of tools and gadgets aimed at health has skyrocketed in the past few years. That technology can be a big help to those looking to improve their health,… Read More
From chatbots to Apple Watches, blood tests to genetic data, technology is changing almost every element of healthcare. That transformation is the focus of a new track at this year’s GeekWire… Read More
If you are a doctor in the U.S., chances are you spend a lot of time doing paperwork — sometimes double the amount of time you spend seeing patients. “Physicians today… Read More
Apple made a bold move into health technology during a special product event Wednesday, announcing that the Apple Watch Series 4 will track abnormal heart activity. The stock of Apple… Read More
Nearly three years ago, Mike Hilton made a dramatic career change. After leading Concur for more than 20 years, and selling the expense management technology company to SAP for $8.3… Read More
Know Labs, a public Seattle company formerly known as Visulant, announced a bold new strategy Wednesday. The company has shifted its material ID technology to focus on medicine, and its… Read More
More than 100 million Americans are now living with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and the disease’s health impacts, coupled with high cost of treatment, is increasingly taking a toll… Read More
Dr. Dan Low loves his job. It shows in almost everything he does. Low is a pediatric anesthesiologist — he’s in charge of giving children all the medication and anesthesia they… Read More
MRIs are one of the most commonly used diagnostic tools, but the technology behind that imaging has remained largely the same for decades. Researchers at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University… Read More
Data is transforming every industry under the sun. Mountains of data let companies sell toothpaste, manage international logistics and support customers more efficiently. Healthcare is different. “We all know that… Read More
In December of 2012, Su-In Lee was working at the University of Washington in Seattle. One day, she got the kind of call everyone fears: Her father, Cheol Lee, was… Read More
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The stethoscope has long been a symbol of medicine, but now the centuries-old device has new competition, with the launch of a smartphone-based intelligent stethoscope invented by a Seattle teen… Read More