The future use of artificial intelligence in medical contexts could be beneficial in improving efficiency, but a new University of Washington research study published in Nature Machine Intelligence found that… 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
News Brief: Grail, a biotech company with early backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says it’s raised $300 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing… Read More
A California-based aerial delivery venture called Zipline has unveiled what it calls “the fastest commercial delivery drone on Earth,” capable of flying as fast as 80 mph (128 km/h). Sustained… Read More
While Amazon continues testing drone delivery systems for popcorn and other consumer goods, a startup called Zipline is expanding its fully operational medical drone delivery system from Rwanda to Tanzania… Read More
Portland-based Kannact has more funding to help fuel development of its at-home diabetes management platform. The 4-year-old startup recently closed $3 million in investment, bringing total funding up to $8.5… Read More
The tricorder is still a little ways off, but today’s computers can significantly cut down on the time you spend visiting doctors. This week’s App of the Week eliminates the… Read More
Consider the last big-ticket purchase you made. Maybe you compared prices, read reviews, and utilized online tools designed to help consumers. Now imagine you could apply that same shopping strategy to… Read More
Performance reviews are commonplace in most industries as a way for employers to ensure that their employees are putting out high quality work. But in the medical world, and specifically… Read More
The doctor will see you now. Just hold your smartphone a little closer. MultiCare Health System has announced it will offer “video doctor visits” to patients throughout Washington state in… Read More
Not sure how tricky an operation with be? Practice surgery with a three-dimensional replica. That’s the approach being taken by surgeons at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle… Read More
I’m about to overshare on sharing. I have good reason. In mid-June, my wife Dee Dee was diagnosed with breast cancer. Among the many hard decisions we had to make… Read More
There is no doubt an incredible amount of data now available in the medical industry. But Howard Mahran and Jeff Hummel noticed a huge problem with all that information nearly a decade… Read More
Clarity Health Services, a Seattle-based company that builds software for medical care coordination, has raised a $6.6 million round from Columbia Pacific Advisors. Clarity Health, founded in 2007, helps healthcare providers… Read More
After working in front of his computer all day long for decades in the tech industry, Ron Miller’s health wasn’t exactly great. “My doctor and I had a tough discussion… Read More
Kona Medical has raised $10 million in a Series D round from Morningside Group to bring its novel ultrasound technology to patients in China. Founded in 2009, the Bellevue-based company is led by… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is providing a $1.5 million grant to researchers at the University of Washington to continue work on a system that uses neural signaling and… Read More
Whether you’ve just racked up the highest score on Halo or finally finished off the last level of Final Fantasy, video games can certainly make people happy. But can they… Read More
Entrepreneur Justin Tan’s business idea was sparked by a very serious situation. On a flight from New York to Paris, his father, a respected physician, suffered a stroke that paralyzed… Read More
When ZocDoc announced $75 million in new funding last September, the 5-year-old company stated that it planned to use the cash infusion to expand rapidly into new regions. Now, the… Read More
One of the hottest things going in startup world right now is the integration of technology with health and wellness services. Over the course of the past few months, we’ve… Read More
Valant Medical Solutions, which has developed software to help psychiatrists manage billing and electronic medical records at their practices, has scored $937,000 in financing in an oversubscribed round, according to… Read More