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TLDR: Facebook F8 Conference Highlights, 98point6 virtual clinic, OfferUp now ships across the continental U.S.

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Steth IO launches smartphone-based stethoscope that visualizes heartbeats — invented by teenager

The stethoscope has long been a symbol of medicine, but now the centuries-old device has new competition, with the launch… Read More

Microsoft and UPMC unveil virtual AI assistant that listens in and takes notes on doctor’s visits

Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth… Read More

Carewave Medical raising cash for pain relieving wearable, with support from big biotech names

Medical device company Carewave Medical is looking to raise $1 million to support its wearable pain relief technology, according to… Read More

2Morrow launches pain management app, as tech industry addresses opioid crisis

In 2016, more than 16,000 people died from an opioid overdose related to a prescription drug. That’s more than 46 people… Read More

Pittsburgh poised to build thriving health innovation industry — if it can escape ‘valley of death’

More than 125,000 people receive an organ transplant every year. The procedure could replace a failing heart, lungs or kidneys, or… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: A ‘tricorder’ in your home? Pioneer Lee Hood on the future of health technology

“I envision a time, in the 10-year future, when we’ll have a tricorder and you at home will put a… Read More

Amazon’s health ambitions confirmed? Company seeks medical data compliance leader for mysterious new initiative

Amazon appears to be preparing for a serious move into the world of health. GeekWire has unearthed an Amazon job… Read More

Podcast

CVS, Amazon and the ‘mass freak-out’: How tech is reshaping the healthcare industry

In October, something fairly normal happened: CNBC reported that Amazon might disrupt yet another industry, pharmaceuticals. The tech giant was… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: How do you make it in healthcare? Disrupt from the inside out

Tech is all about disruption. It’s the poster child of the innovation economy: Tear everything down and build it over… Read More

Health tech startup spins out of Univ. of Washington, aims to make surgery more efficient with data science

The University of Washington added yet another startup to its growing list of spinouts Monday: Perimatics, a health technology company… 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

How virtual reality is helping scientists make new discoveries about our health

Caroline Stefani has a cool job: She works at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason in Seattle, looking for new… Read More

Virtual healthcare startup Carena acquired by Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia

Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia announced Tuesday that it has acquired Carena, a Seattle-based telemedicine startup that builds the technology behind virtual doctor’s… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: An Uber for house calls? How tech is reinventing doctor’s appointments

Think about the last time you saw a doctor. Chances are you had to wait days, weeks or months for… Read More

Health tech startup 98point6 raises $19.5M to connect patients with doctors in new ‘virtual clinic’

What if you could have quality primary care that treats you when you need it and helps you stay healthy… Read More

Podcast

Tune In: GeekWire’s Health Tech Podcast live at Providence St. Joseph Health Tuesday

GeekWire’s popular Health Tech Podcast is going on location this Tuesday morning, Sept. 19, for a special live interview with Mark… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: This researcher’s startup is taking on cancer with data and crowdsourcing

Health Tech Live! Join us online at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, for a special Facebook Live stream of GeekWire’s next… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: Insights from a former Amazon exec now driving innovation in healthcare

Lots of people think they know how to fix healthcare, from legislators in Washington D.C. to your talkative neighbor down… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: How one woman built her own artificial pancreas and started a DIY movement

[Health Tech Live! Join us online at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 26, for a special Facebook Live stream of GeekWire’s next… Read More

Health technology startup BloomAPI raises $2.4M to get medical records off paper

If you change doctors or go to see a specialist, chances are that your medical records will be printed out… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: Psychologists become app developers to help people kick addictions

Do you ever feel like you’re addicted to apps? Or like they really get inside your head? Well, good news: You’re… Read More

Podcast

The art of ‘naive innovation’: Tips from a tech genius on creative problem-solving

Shwetak Patel is a certified genius. The University of Washington computer science and electrical engineering professor won a 2011 MacArthur… Read More

Healthcare startup League announces U.S. launch of digital health benefits platform

League, a Toronto-based digital health startup with ties to Seattle, announced Tuesday that it has launched its digital health benefits platform… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: This startup is tackling one of healthcare’s biggest challenges with a tiny gadget

Taking a pill isn’t very hard for most people. But remembering you need to take a pill? That’s a bit… Read More

Study shows how tech like Fitbit and Facebook could help childhood cancer survivors stay healthy

We’re all familiar with Facebook and Fitbit — they’re convenient technologies that make our lives a bit easier. But scientists… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: This innovator is turning smartphones into the ultimate medical device

Computer scientist Shwetak Patel talks a mile a minute. And there’s a reason for that: he’s got a lot on… Read More

Podcast

Introducing GeekWire’s new Health Tech podcast, exploring the frontiers of digital health

We’re excited to debut a new GeekWire podcast today, exploring one of the most promising, challenging and transformative areas of technology: digital health. Season… Read More

Healthentic raises almost $4M to boost healthcare analytics

Healthentic, a Seattle-based health tech startup, announced today that it received $3.75 million in its latest round of equity financing.… Read More

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