Articles about Mike McSherry

‘Doctor in your pocket’: Xealth CEO Mike McSherry on selling to Samsung and the future of digital healthcare

When Mike McSherry set out to build a digital health startup, the veteran entrepreneur wanted to create a company that… Read More

How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern

As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could… Read More

Prime healthcare: How Amazon’s $3.9B One Medical deal could boost its subscription program

Will consumers order up healthcare through Amazon Prime as easily as they stream The Boys or buy an Echo speaker?… Read More

Can Amazon change healthcare? Experts sound off on tech giant’s $3.9B deal to buy One Medical

Amazon’s planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical will bring Amazon further into healthcare. But whether the Seattle tech giant will… Read More

Providence spinout Xealth raises $24M to expand digital health services

Xealth, which handles digital health strategies for more than 20 hospital systems, has raised $24 million in new funding, the… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2021: Vote for the leader who is getting things done as Startup CEO of the Year

Managing fast-growing startups is not an easy task. Whether it’s keeping up with the competition, outsmarting big tech or raising… Read More

Digital health startup Xealth lands $11M to help doctors prescribe pretty much anything but drugs

Is there big market for prescriptions beyond drugs? Several investors with deep experience in health are betting on it —… Read More

Xealth brings e-commerce to the doctors office with new Amazon integration

Imagine a patient who is having knee surgery. The person’s doctor will prescribe medication for recovery, provide instructions for physical… Read More

Podcast

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

Former Swype execs raise $8.5M for Xealth, a health platform that connects patients, doctors and digital treatments

There is no end to pressing needs in the healthcare industry. That’s one of the first things that tech veterans… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec looks to disrupt healthcare at Providence Ventures, taps former Swype CEO as entrepreneur-in-residence

Over the past year, Providence Health & Services, a 159-year old not-for-profit Catholic health care provider, has quietly built a sophisticated… Read More

Swype meets iPhone, finally: Apple’s iOS 8 to bring third-party keyboard support

Here’s a surprise from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference: iOS 8, the next version of Apple’s operating system for iPad and… Read More

Mike McSherry departs Nuance three years after selling Swype for $100 million

Mike McSherry, a Seattle start-up veteran, has left Nuance Communications nearly three years after the company purchased Swype, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

Swype Android keyboard out of beta, available in Google Play Store for $0.99

Swype’s Android keyboard is finally out of “beta” phase and now available to the masses. Swype, a Seattle-area startup that… Read More

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GeekWire Radio on stage: Here is our broadcast from Seattle’s Pioneer Square

Technology was the central topic, naturally, as we recorded the GeekWire radio show for the first time in front of… Read More

Podcast

Lineup for the live GeekWire Radio Show: Mike McSherry, The Icarus Kid and more

Each week, Todd Bishop and I get together to talk about all things geek — revisiting the top news stories,… Read More

A Siri for advertising: These mobile ads talk back to you

Publishers are struggling to make money on mobile, a challenging scenario given that more folks are now consuming news and… Read More

U.S. Patent chief: New patent reforms are like an ‘intricate Swiss watch’

At the GeekWire Summit on Wednesday, former Swype CEO Mike McSherry received the loudest applause of the day when he… Read More

Mobile vets: Windows Phone is great, but it has a long way to go to catch Apple and Android

We brought together some of the top thinkers in the mobile industry Wednesday afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle.… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Facebook, T-Mobile, Swype and more join lineup of speakers

We’re gearing up for our big GeekWire Summit, the inaugural half-day conference March 7 in downtown Seattle. Last week we… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Swype’s Cliff Kushler and Mike McSherry

Swype revolutionized the way millions of people input text on Android devices, with the simple swipe of a finger. Founded… Read More

Hey Seattle, here’s why we’re so gosh darn awesome (Part Two)

Last week, the Washington Technology Industry Association posted some short videos of Seattle area entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists (including yours… Read More

The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype

Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some… Read More

Swype CEO on acquisition by Nuance: ‘It is a great outcome’

Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather… Read More

Nuance to acquire Swype for more than $100 million

Nuance has agreed to purchase Seattle startup Swype for more than $100 million, according to GeekWire sources. The news was… Read More