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IPO filing: Microsoft invested $45M in Adaptive Biotechnologies as part of universal blood test deal

In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing… Read More

98point6 inks deal with health plan Banner|Aetna, expanding reach of virtual primary care service

Seattle startup 98point6 is bringing its virtual primary care solution to hundreds of thousands of new patients as part of… Read More

Vote for your favorite Health Innovation of the Year, a new category at the GeekWire Awards

Proteins, algorithms and apps — oh my! Health innovators across the Pacific Northwest continue to embrace technologies that go well… Read More

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Big eye drops are a giant problem, and this student startup is challenging the industry with its solution

Nanodropper, a medical device startup founded by a group of University of Washington students, has developed an adapter that makes… Read More

Led by Microsoft vets and Intelius co-founder, Clocktree rolls out telehealth platform for healthcare counseling

Early Microsoft engineers and Intelius co-founder Chandan Chauhan are behind a stealthy telehealth startup that just launched its customer-facing product,… Read More

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Inside Amazon’s ‘Haven’ healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase

It has been more than a year since the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway was… Read More

Amazon fuels Harvard hospital’s machine learning research program

Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at… Read More

Drug giant Merck pays $300M to acquire Seattle biotech company Immune Design

Merck, one of the world’s largest drugmakers, agreed to buy Seattle-based biotechnology company Immune Design for $300 million in cash.… Read More

Microsoft teams up with global health partners to spot rare diseases faster using new technology

Patients with a rare disease often face a long and painful road to an accurate diagnosis. The process takes five years on… Read More

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How this healthcare outsider solved an industry blind spot, with a healthy dose of perseverance

Beth Kolko’s superpower may not seem that out of the ordinary. She can’t see through walls, but she can see what’s wrong… Read More

Sentinel Healthcare raises $2M to monitor hypertension in round led by PSL Ventures

Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures, Pioneer Square Lab’s investment arm.… Read More

Super surgeons: Proprio aims to bring computer vision and AI to the operating room

Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its… Read More

Magnolia Medical raises $20M to cut down errors in blood tests

Medical device maker Magnolia Medical raised $20 million to expand its platform for sepsis testing accuracy and to develop new… Read More

Bill Gates says these technologies are helping to eradicate disease

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent 20 years and $10 billion on issues of global health. In that… Read More

Providence Ventures, led by ex-Amazon exec, raises second $150M fund for early stage investments

Providence Ventures has raised another $150 million fund to invest in early-stage healthcare technology companies, doubling the size of its… Read More

Smartphone stethoscope maker Steth IO launches AI assistant to help doctors detect heart problems

The stethoscope is an enduring symbol of medicine, but the long-serving tool isn’t actually as effective as you might think.… Read More

Geek on the Street: Would you want to live to 200, and would do you anything differently?

Health technology is hot. But there are mixed feelings about aging a century or more beyond the typical current human… Read More

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How this geneticist went from struggling student to startup founder to selling her company for $102M

More than 20 years ago, Claudia Mitchell arrived in Paris to pursue a doctorate degree in molecular biology — with a… Read More

Healthcare tech startup 98point6 raises $50M, led by Goldman Sachs, to expand its ‘virtual clinic’

98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing an entirely virtual primary care service, has raised $50 million in a round led by… Read More

Wellness tech is helpful, but ‘don’t get too obsessed’ with the numbers, biotech leader says

The number of tools and gadgets aimed at health has skyrocketed in the past few years. That technology can be… Read More

The robot will see you now: New GeekWire Summit track explores how AI, genetic data and more are transforming healthcare

From chatbots to Apple Watches, blood tests to genetic data, technology is changing almost every element of healthcare. That transformation… Read More

Saykara raises $5M as its AI voice assistant cuts time doctors spend on paperwork by 70%

If you are a doctor in the U.S., chances are you spend a lot of time doing paperwork — sometimes double… Read More

Apple makes huge leap in health tech with first-of-its-kind heart tracking feature on Apple Watch

Apple made a bold move into health technology during a special product event Wednesday, announcing that the Apple Watch Series… Read More

Technology fuels growth at Accolade health venture, 3 years after Concur founders took helm

Nearly three years ago, Mike Hilton made a dramatic career change. After leading Concur for more than 20 years, and… Read More

Know Labs unveils plan for non-invasive blood glucose monitor, sending stock skyrocketing

Know Labs, a public Seattle company formerly known as Visulant, announced a bold new strategy Wednesday. The company has shifted… Read More

Brook.ai raises $4M seed round for diabetes management tech, announces new partnership

More than 100 million Americans are now living with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and the disease’s health impacts, coupled… Read More

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Doctors Without Data: Why one MD founded a startup just to get metrics on his own patients

Dr. Dan Low loves his job. It shows in almost everything he does. Low is a pediatric anesthesiologist — he’s in… Read More

Microsoft partners with Case Western on quantum computing and Hololens tech that improves MRIs

MRIs are one of the most commonly used diagnostic tools, but the technology behind that imaging has remained largely the… Read More

Tech vets launch MultiScale Health, aiming to ‘liberate’ healthcare data with real-time platform

Data is transforming every industry under the sun. Mountains of data let companies sell toothpaste, manage international logistics and support… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: Using precision medicine to kill cancer — with artificial intelligence

In December of 2012, Su-In Lee was working at the University of Washington in Seattle. One day, she got the… Read More