Articles about Health care

Can AI cure cancer? New alliance unites tech giants and big research orgs in quest for breakthroughs

Four national cancer research organizations, spearheaded by Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center, will work together in an unprecedented alliance to… Read More

Goodbill raises $2M and expands customer base to unearth and challenge medical billing errors

Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in… Read More

Seattle-area startup offering electronic medical records for long-term care raises $2.5M

DocNow, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round to expand its platform that provides electronic medical records,… Read More

Amazon cutting hundreds of jobs in health care units One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at its health care units, Amazon Pharmacy and the primary care company One Medical,… Read More

Amazon adds new Prime benefit with One Medical virtual and in-person health care service

Almost eight months after closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical, Amazon is making health care… Read More

Microsoft joins list of companies that will help pay employee travel costs for abortions and other care

Microsoft joined a growing list of companies that have said they will assist with expenses if employees have to travel… Read More

Digital health startup Engage Technologies Group raises $15M for patient education tools

Boise, Id.-based Engage Technologies Group closed a $15 million Series A funding round for its mobile patient platform targeted for… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Future doctor Nicole Magaki wants to make health care more accessible

Nicole Magaki doesn’t just want to be a doctor. She wants to help doctors help more people. A 17-year-old from… Read More

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Scientists pursue new genetic insights for health: Inside the world of ‘deep mutational scanning’

It has been nearly two decades since scientists accomplished the first complete sequencing of the human genome. This historic moment… Read More

Geek of the Week: Doctor-turned-administrator Khin Latt relies on data analytics to inform care

When Khin Latt was a young girl growing up in Myanmar (Burma), she wanted to be an engineer, work for… Read More

Genomics pioneer Lee Hood launches new institute to fight Alzheimer’s with data and wellness

If you want a glimpse at medicine’s track record against Alzheimer’s, look no further than the numbers: Pharmaceutical companies have… Read More

Bill Gates lists 10 breakthrough technologies that address ‘important challenges’ of our time

In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates… Read More

Amazon’s new healthcare joint venture aims to reinvent benefits, cut drug costs and boost primary care

Insurance benefits, primary care and pharmacy costs will be at the center of the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan… Read More

Amazon health care joint venture names Zocdoc executive as CTO, ramps up hiring

Serkan Kutan, an Amazon and Microsoft veteran who was most recently chief technology officer at medical appointment booking company Zocdoc, has… Read More

UnitedHealth sues exec for taking trade secrets to Amazon health care joint venture

Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants.… Read More

Is wellness ‘dead’? This Seattle-area company just raised $22M to revive it

Seattle-area health technology company Aduro has landed a $22 million investment to help company employees “be great at anything.” The funding,… Read More

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies go live with AI engine for universal diagnostic blood test

It’s been one day short of a year since Microsoft partnered with Adaptive Biotechnologies to create a blood test with… Read More

How Fred Hutch spinout LabKey bootstrapped its way to compete in health care’s big data

Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get… Read More

Working Geek: Lizza Miller believes in the smart use of tech to make people healthier

“I’m still just floored by how little technology is actually used in the entire healthcare market,” said Lizza Miller, co-founder… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Mobile focus and real-life experience gives NurseGrid an edge in scheduling

Illnesses, accidents and moms going into labor don’t happen on predictable schedules, and that can make hospital staffing a tricky… Read More

Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory

Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing… Read More

UW researchers map widening gap in life expectancy and call for policy changes

A county-by-county survey of U.S. life expectancy reports a 20-year gap between the lows and the highs – a gap that… Read More

Jeff Bezos sees a big future for Amazon Echo, Alexa and AI in health care

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks Alexa, the virtual assistant that powers Echo devices, could be a useful tool for health… Read More

Obama goes into full (and feisty) geek mode at White House Frontiers Conference

President Barack Obama stated the obvious today during what almost sounded like a farewell address to the tech community he… Read More

Second-opinion software: Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz on how AI can save patients’ lives

Someday soon, your physician may be second-guessed by an artificial intelligence program – and you’ll probably be healthier for it, according to… Read More

How your health care will change in 10 (and 100) years: Five predictions from Arivale’s Leroy Hood

Good news: Arivale co-founder Leroy Hood says he can “almost guarantee” there’ll be ways to keep yourself physically and mentally fit… Read More

Institute for Systems Biology joins Providence; Biotech pioneer Leroy Hood named health system’s chief science officer

The non-profit Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle-based biomedical research organization that has spun off eight companies in the past 15 years, is joining Providence… Read More

Amazon boosts maternity leave, offers paid paternity leave for first time, and creates ‘Leave Share’ program for spouses

Amazon will offer up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new moms, provide up to six weeks of paid leave for… Read More

Premera’s family credit monitoring offer plagued by bugs of its own

Premera Blue Cross is offering free credit monitoring from Experian to help protect customers from a sophisticated online attack that potentially gave hackers access… Read More

Microsoft will require suppliers to give workers 15 days of paid leave

Microsoft will require its suppliers to give their employees who do work for the Redmond company at least 15 days of… Read More