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Healthcare costs are devastating education budgets, and computer science education is collateral damage

I read the recent GeekWire article about how dozens of tech, education and nonprofit execs urge passage of Washington computer… Read More

New ‘Cambia Grove’ health-care innovation center in Seattle will link tech startups with big players

Cambia Health Solutions, the parent company of Regence and other health-care companies, plans to open a new 9,000-square-foot health care innovation… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Limeade helps companies improve employee health with incentive-based wellness plans

Things are rolling for the folks at Limeade, a Bellevue-based software company that creates incentive-based wellness plans for businesses, and that was… Read More

Amazon payments engineering director leaves for health-care tech company

Doug Hebenthal, who left Microsoft in 2012 to become engineering director for Amazon’s e-commerce payments platform, is leaving Amazon to take a job as senior… Read More

How big data will transform politics, education and just about everything else

Big data requires big thinkers. And some of Seattle’s top minds — from University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni… Read More

Qliance raises $8M, opens new clinic on Expedia campus

Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer; Zillow Chairman Rich Barton; comedian Drew Carey;… Read More

Geek of the Week: Dr. Rebecca Gardner is reprogramming blood cells to kill cancer

Dr. Rebecca Gardner and her colleagues at Seattle Children’s Research Institute are altering the body’s infection-fighting blood cells to attack… Read More

Expedia to open onsite health clinic in partnership with Qliance

Employers pay a lot to recruit and retain skilled workers. Now, at Expedia they are going the extra step to… Read More

Healthcare marketing upstart Appature lands $6.1 million from Madrona and Ignition

Appature has been undergoing what CEO Kabir Shahani describes as a “pretty dramatic growth curve” in the past year, growing… Read More

Healthcare Reform: Why today’s Supreme Court ruling is great news for startups

No matter which side of the aisle you sit on*, today’s ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable… Read More

Health care via house calls and Webcams: Carena lands $14 million to make it a reality

The next time your ear aches or stomach hurts, you might not drive to the doctor’s office or head to… Read More

Tech Moves: Uber’s Broderick on the move; Qliance names COO; F5 execs get new gigs; etc.

Michelle Broderick has been promoted to lead the global marketing efforts for Uber, the fast-growing private driver service backed by… Read More

New details on Caradigm, Microsoft’s joint venture with GE — and yes, that’s the name

Microsoft and General Electric this morning confirmed that they’ve given the name “Caradigm” to their new health-technology joint venture, and… Read More

Caradigm? Microsoft and GE signal potential name for health-care initiatives

Microsoft and General Electric, which last month announced plans to form a new health-care technology company, have filed a series… Read More

HP to sell Vioguard’s self-sanitizing computer keyboard

Less than a month after receiving FDA approval for its self-sanitizing keyboard, Vioguard today announced an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to… Read More

Self-sanitizing keyboard wins FDA nod for healthcare use

Vioguard, a company started by two Microsoft Hardware veterans and their business partners, says it has received U.S. Food &… Read More

Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics

Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More

Hanauer-backed health care provider Qliance appoints CEO

Qliance Medical Management, a Seattle company that operates primary health care clinics in the Puget Sound area, has appointed Erika… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Qliance to expand health care clinics

Qliance, an operator of health care clinics in which members pay monthly fees for primary and preventive care, is expanding… Read More

Seattle Children’s lands $2.3M Gates Foundation grant for innovative respiratory device

Seattle Children’s Research Institute has secured a $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finish developing… Read More

Liberty Dialysis to sell for $1.7B

Liberty Dialysis Holdings, a Mercer Island company that operates 260 dialysis clinics across the country, has entered into an agreement… Read More

Wireless power for heart pumps: Medical breakthrough from UW researchers

Here’s an innovation that might just make Dick Cheney smile. Researchers from the University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh… Read More

The future of health care, as imagined by a tech design firm

The Industrial Designers Society of America handed out its annual IDEA product design awards this week, and one of the projects… Read More

Technical difficulties delay live online knee surgery

Doctors need reliable equipment in the operating room. But one piece of technology — albeit a minor one — failed… Read More

Surgery meets social media: Robotic procedure to be webcast, tweeted

Yes, even the operating room has a hash tag now. Aiming to promote its latest robot-assisted surgical technology, Swedish Orthopedic… Read More