Articles about Healthcare – Page 5 of 7

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… 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

Apple launching medical clinics for employees, the latest move in tech’s healthcare innovation fight

Apple is launching medical clinics for its employees in the latest attempt by a large tech company to address the… 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

Amazon reportedly venturing into healthcare supplies, targeting hospitals and clinics

Amazon is expanding its reach in the healthcare supply market, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Hospital… Read More

Four things we wish we knew about Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s health venture

Three giant U.S. companies — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — announced Tuesday that they will form their own… Read More

Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once

The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days,… Read More

Report: Providence considering merger that would create the biggest health system in the country

News Brief: Seattle-based Providence St. Joseph Health and St. Louis-based Ascension Health are in talks about a potential merger, according… 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

Amazon’s flirtation with pharmaceuticals may have driven CVS to acquire health insurer Aetna for $69B

CVS is buying one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, for $69 billion, and analysts and observers say… Read More

Inside Seattle Children’s landmark $1B campaign to cure childhood cancer and other diseases

It’s an exciting time to be studying cures for cancer. New technology like cutting-edge immunotherapy treatments are opening doors to… Read More

Washington state’s life sciences industry has a talent crisis — and the tech sector is partly to blame

Washington State’s life sciences sector has historically been strong, even among the best in the nation. Industries like medicine, research… Read More

‘Alexa, tell me about my blood glucose:’ Health tech startup Wellpepper wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge

Type 2 Diabetes has become a health crisis in the U.S. The rate of type 2 diabetes has nearly doubled… Read More

Working Geek: Swatee Surve’s startup uses video games to help people manage chronic health conditions

Swatee Surve is reimagining the way patients manage chronic health conditions and keep their healthcare providers up-to-date. That’s the mission… 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

BetterDoctor partners with Washington state to bring tech solutions to health insurance exchange

BetterDoctor, a San-Francisco-based startup, announced Monday that it will partner with the Washington Health Benefit Exchange to improve Washington Healthplanfinder,… Read More

Pivot Health aims to disrupt healthcare hiring with new tech-fueled job matching platform

Hiring and job searching are both difficult tasks — and in the healthcare world, those tasks are even harder. Clinical workers… Read More

Swisslog Healthcare acquires Talyst Systems, will develop pharmacy software at Seattle-area office

Talyst Systems, a provider of software tools for pharmacies, was acquired Tuesday by medical supply management specialist Swisslog Healthcare. Talyst Systems’… Read More

Czech student team wins 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup with innovative approach to manage diabetes

And the winner of Microsoft’s 2017 Imagine Cup is … X.GLU, a team of student developers from the Czech Republic… Read More

A secret Amazon team is reportedly working on disruptive healthcare tech

Amazon is on a mission to disrupt everything from retail to data storage to entertainment media, so it should come… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon reportedly hires Box health tech exec; Bizible adds Inside Social founder as VP; and more

Amazon has hired health technology executive Missy Krasner, the VP and managing director of healthcare and life sciences at cloud… Read More

Bright.md raises $8M for AI-powered remote healthcare service with ‘virtual physician assistant’

Bright.md is raising more cash for its tech-fueled virtual healthcare service that aims to improve care for patients and reduce… Read More

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Here are improvements this health tech startup wants to see in the healthcare reform bill

As many folks in Washington, D.C. have learned over the past decade, healthcare is complicated. But even though it’s a… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: This startup is tackling one of healthcare’s biggest challenges with a tiny gadget

Taking a pill isn’t very hard for most people. But remembering you need to take a pill? That’s a bit… Read More

The Amazon of healthcare? Accolade unveils AI platform and app that personalize healthcare assistance

If there’s a master list of tech buzzwords somewhere in the world, “intelligence” would be pretty near the top. Mike… Read More

Qliance healthcare startup cites lender fraud for sudden shutdown as patients are left in the lurch

Qliance Medical Management — a Seattle-based healthcare startup originally backed by investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, TV personality Drew Carey and… Read More

One Medical opens new tech-driven, membership-based primary care center in Seattle

Alternatives to the traditional healthcare system are becoming more popular than ever, and one of those alternatives is expanding to the Seattle… Read More

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How cutting-edge genetic tests for kids are creating a conundrum for parents

We often think of genetic mutations as ominous, life-threatening mistakes in our biology. But the reality is actually much different:… Read More