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This insurance startup will give you a wearable and reward you for hitting...
Many in the health care industry believe that wearable devices can keep patients more engaged with their caregivers, and more mindful of their health in general. The tech-focused health insurance...
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2014 digital health investment exceeded total of three previous years...
Funding in the digital health space continues to accelerate as health care reform has put the spotlight directly on the shortcomings of the U.S. health care delivery system. The digital health...
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MyBrain’s white headgear uses sensors and music to calm you down
CES 2015 What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015? Read VB's full coverage of International CES 2015 to find out.LAS VEGAS — At the CES Unveiled press event Sunday night we...
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Millennium Health uses analytics, genetics to help fight the cost of drug misuse
Millennium Health started out in 2007 as a lab service that tested urine samples for doctors around the country. But the company has since grown into a powerful bioinformatics and analytics company....
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J.P. Morgan health conference points toward a hot year in digital health
CES 2015 What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015? Read VB's full coverage of International CES 2015 to find out.After having spent a few days at the International CES gadget show...
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Guardant Health takes another $50M for ‘liquid biopsy’ cancer test
Health care is just now starting to effectively use information from the human genome to diagnose and treat disease. Nowhere is this more crucial than in the treatment of cancer, from which 7.6 million...
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Under Armour goes health app shopping — buys MyFitnessPal and Endomondo
The fitness apparel company Under Armour today announced its acquisition of two fitness apps companies — MyFitnessPal and Endomondo. Under Armour will buy MyFitnessPal for $475 million, and Endomondo...
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One Medical Group expands to Phoenix — and signs up the Arizona Diamondbacks...
One Medical Group is in growth mode, and now says it will open three new primary care offices in the Phoenix area over the next few months. The group, which claims to be the fastest-growing primary...
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Stanford launches its HealthKit- and Epic-connected MyHealth app
Many large hospitals in the U.S. are evaluating or developing pilot projects around Apple’s HealthKit platform. Stanford Health Care is among the first to actually offer a working app that exchanges...
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Helpouts (R.I.P.): Google’s ‘build it and they will come’ approach ultimately...
Google “Helpouts,” an online platform where experts offer advice via video chat, was a good idea, but the service is going away, Google announced Friday. Google sent an email message out to...
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Eko pulls in $2M for smart stethoscope, enters clinical trials
Dumb health care devices are no longer OK. With medical errors and redundancies costing us $750 billion a year, the push is on to digitize all forms of health information. That’s probably one of the...
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Conversa Health pulls in $2.5M for patient relationship management platform
One of the costliest problems in health care today is that patients fail to follow caregiver directions between office visits. San Rafael, Calif.-based Conversa Health operates a patient relationship...
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Collective Health raises $38M to grow employer health insurance business
Collective Health believes the answer to the problem of out-of-control health care costs starts with employers. Today, 150 million Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employer....
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Scanadu pulls in another $35M to take ‘medical tricorder’ to market
Successful CMOs achieve growth by leveraging technology. Join us for GrowthBeat Summit on June 1-2 in Boston, where we'll discuss how to merge creativity with technology to drive growth. Space is...
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Sherpaa carries in $2.25M for employer telemedicine platform
Consumer-facing telemedicine platforms seemed to be coming out the woodwork last year, and funding for the technology was abundant. However, some investors say that the smart play is telemedicine...
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Jawbone, Practice Fusion, Health Catalyst next to IPO, digital health...
First Fitbit files IPO papers, then MindBody (software for yoga studios, etc.) follows suit last week. So who’s next? The good folks over at Rock Health wanted to know, so they polled a group of 43...
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Doctor on Demand diagnosed with $50M in new funding
The telemedicine service Doctor on Demand is doubling down on its enterprise partnership business, and is taking a new $50 million injection of venture capital funding to do it. The company is getting...
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Kyruus is bringing data science to bear for smart patient referrals
Whenever I book a doctor’s appointment through my medical group I expect to wait at least a couple of weeks to get in. Meanwhile, there are probably two or three doctors in the area who could meet my...
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This year’s digital health IPOs have put the market in the mood for more
A relatively small group of people from underwriting banks on Wall Street define the market’s appetite for the year’s IPOs. And right now, sources say, those people are thinking happy thoughts about...
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Physician-patient matching service Grand Rounds raises $55M round
Grand Rounds, a digital health startup that connects patients with expert physicians, has taken a large, $55 million late-stage funding round. The round was led by a new, unnamed mutual fund investor,...
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ZocDoc raises $130M round at a $1.8B valuation
ZocDoc, the New York digital health company that sets people up with doctors and schedules appointments, has raised a massive new $130 million round. The company says it’s now valued at about $1.8...
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Collective Health takes $81M from Google Ventures, others, to go nationwide
Collective Health said today it’s taking a large new funding round from Google Ventures and others to offer its health insurance management platform to employers nationwide in 2016. The $81 million...
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mPort will 3D scan your body measurements at LA Fitness
Pretty soon, the moment of truth will arrive for all of us, as technology finally reveals everything there is to know about our bodies. Australian startup mPort is taking a step in that direction with...
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Electronic health records provider Athenahealth extends to hospitals with...
Health care reform’s emphasis on population health management is moving providers toward electronic health records systems that can document care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That may be...
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Nokia unveils 2 new devices in digital health ‘rebirth’
Nokia today unveiled a new smart scale and digital blood pressure monitor as part of the company’s “rebirth,” Cédric Hutchings, Nokia’s VP of Digital Health, told VentureBeat in an interview at Nokia’s...
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How VR training prepares surgeons to save infants’ lives
Virtual reality promises to be great for gamers, but it also has potential to change the world in other ways. Shauna Heller recognized that potential, so she quit her job at Oculus VR and became a...
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Nokia may consider selling or closing its digital health business
Nokia’s ambitious attempt to reinvent itself continued to unravel today when the company announced it had “initiated a review of strategic options for its Digital Health business.” In a short...
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How Withings’Éric Carreel plans to raise his wearables company from the dead
As the wearables market emerged a decade ago, France’s Withings took its place among a class of pioneers that included such names as Fitbit, Pebble, and Jawbone. And in its home territory, Withings’...
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What medtech can learn from digital health
SAN FRANCISCO — Big medical technology companies have the trust of hospitals. But digital-health startups are the ones developing the most exciting new technologies. Given partnerships and acquisitions...
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From Withings to blockchain: Meet the French entrepreneur trying to reinvent...
Alexis Normand is pursuing digital health innovation from his dual roles at Withings and head of the Embleema Blockchain Consortium.Read More
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