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Geek on the Street: Would you want to live to 200, and would do you anything differently?

Health technology is hot. But there are mixed feelings about aging a century or more beyond the typical current human… Read More

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How this geneticist went from struggling student to startup founder to selling her company for $102M

More than 20 years ago, Claudia Mitchell arrived in Paris to pursue a doctorate degree in molecular biology — with a… Read More

Healthcare tech startup 98point6 raises $50M, led by Goldman Sachs, to expand its ‘virtual clinic’

98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing an entirely virtual primary care service, has raised $50 million in a round led by… Read More

Wellness tech is helpful, but ‘don’t get too obsessed’ with the numbers, biotech leader says

The number of tools and gadgets aimed at health has skyrocketed in the past few years. That technology can be… Read More

The robot will see you now: New GeekWire Summit track explores how AI, genetic data and more are transforming healthcare

From chatbots to Apple Watches, blood tests to genetic data, technology is changing almost every element of healthcare. That transformation… Read More

Saykara raises $5M as its AI voice assistant cuts time doctors spend on paperwork by 70%

If you are a doctor in the U.S., chances are you spend a lot of time doing paperwork — sometimes double… Read More

Apple makes huge leap in health tech with first-of-its-kind heart tracking feature on Apple Watch

Apple made a bold move into health technology during a special product event Wednesday, announcing that the Apple Watch Series… Read More

Technology fuels growth at Accolade health venture, 3 years after Concur founders took helm

Nearly three years ago, Mike Hilton made a dramatic career change. After leading Concur for more than 20 years, and… Read More

Know Labs unveils plan for non-invasive blood glucose monitor, sending stock skyrocketing

Know Labs, a public Seattle company formerly known as Visulant, announced a bold new strategy Wednesday. The company has shifted… Read More

Brook.ai raises $4M seed round for diabetes management tech, announces new partnership

More than 100 million Americans are now living with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and the disease’s health impacts, coupled… Read More

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Doctors Without Data: Why one MD founded a startup just to get metrics on his own patients

Dr. Dan Low loves his job. It shows in almost everything he does. Low is a pediatric anesthesiologist — he’s in… Read More

Microsoft partners with Case Western on quantum computing and Hololens tech that improves MRIs

MRIs are one of the most commonly used diagnostic tools, but the technology behind that imaging has remained largely the… Read More

Tech vets launch MultiScale Health, aiming to ‘liberate’ healthcare data with real-time platform

Data is transforming every industry under the sun. Mountains of data let companies sell toothpaste, manage international logistics and support… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: Using precision medicine to kill cancer — with artificial intelligence

In December of 2012, Su-In Lee was working at the University of Washington in Seattle. One day, she got the… Read More

TLDR: Facebook F8 Conference Highlights, 98point6 virtual clinic, OfferUp now ships across the continental U.S.

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Steth IO launches smartphone-based stethoscope that visualizes heartbeats — invented by teenager

The stethoscope has long been a symbol of medicine, but now the centuries-old device has new competition, with the launch… Read More

Microsoft and UPMC unveil virtual AI assistant that listens in and takes notes on doctor’s visits

Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth… Read More

Carewave Medical raising cash for pain relieving wearable, with support from big biotech names

Medical device company Carewave Medical is looking to raise $1 million to support its wearable pain relief technology, according to… Read More

2Morrow launches pain management app, as tech industry addresses opioid crisis

In 2016, more than 16,000 people died from an opioid overdose related to a prescription drug. That’s more than 46 people… Read More

Pittsburgh poised to build thriving health innovation industry — if it can escape ‘valley of death’

More than 125,000 people receive an organ transplant every year. The procedure could replace a failing heart, lungs or kidneys, or… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: A ‘tricorder’ in your home? Pioneer Lee Hood on the future of health technology

“I envision a time, in the 10-year future, when we’ll have a tricorder and you at home will put a… Read More

Amazon’s health ambitions confirmed? Company seeks medical data compliance leader for mysterious new initiative

Amazon appears to be preparing for a serious move into the world of health. GeekWire has unearthed an Amazon job… Read More

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CVS, Amazon and the ‘mass freak-out’: How tech is reshaping the healthcare industry

In October, something fairly normal happened: CNBC reported that Amazon might disrupt yet another industry, pharmaceuticals. The tech giant was… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: How do you make it in healthcare? Disrupt from the inside out

Tech is all about disruption. It’s the poster child of the innovation economy: Tear everything down and build it over… Read More

Health tech startup spins out of Univ. of Washington, aims to make surgery more efficient with data science

The University of Washington added yet another startup to its growing list of spinouts Monday: Perimatics, a health technology company… Read More

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Tune In: GeekWire’s Health Tech Podcast live with startup vet Mike McSherry and Providence exec Mary Haggard

GeekWire’s popular Health Tech Podcast is going on location this Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 7, for a special live interview with Xealth co-founder and CEO… Read More

How virtual reality is helping scientists make new discoveries about our health

Caroline Stefani has a cool job: She works at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason in Seattle, looking for new… Read More

Virtual healthcare startup Carena acquired by Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia

Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia announced Tuesday that it has acquired Carena, a Seattle-based telemedicine startup that builds the technology behind virtual doctor’s… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: An Uber for house calls? How tech is reinventing doctor’s appointments

Think about the last time you saw a doctor. Chances are you had to wait days, weeks or months for… Read More

Health tech startup 98point6 raises $19.5M to connect patients with doctors in new ‘virtual clinic’

What if you could have quality primary care that treats you when you need it and helps you stay healthy… Read More