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Amazon agrees to acquire online pharmacy PillPack, reports peg deal at nearly $1B

Amazon’s march into healthcare took another big step on Thursday as the tech giant announced its intention to acquire PillPack.… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Amazon health partnership’s CEO pick offers new clues about ambitious venture

Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway have finally picked a CEO for their ambitious health venture. Unlike most healthcare executives,… Read More

Surgeon, data geek, outspoken advocate: Meet the new CEO of Amazon’s health partnership

The joint healthcare venture from Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway finally has a leader. Surgeon and Harvard professor Dr. Atul… 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

Toughest job interview ever? How Buffett, Dimon and Bezos vet CEO hopefuls for new health venture

The new joint health venture by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway may be the most challenging project in the… 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

Secretive group within Amazon reportedly conducting cancer research, launching health data venture

Amazon seems primed for a bold expansion into healthcare, after speculation in recent months that the Seattle-based company was interested… Read More

Study unveils impact of high drug costs: Cancer chemotherapy is twice as expensive in the U.S.

A new study from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found a huge price discrepancy between cancer care in… Read More

Healthcare startup Qliance files for bankruptcy, lists more than 100 creditors — including CEO’s new company

Qliance Medical Management — a Seattle-based healthcare startup that was embroiled in controversy when it suddenly shut its doors last year — has officially… Read More

Telehealth services save patients $100 per doctor’s visit, study finds, but they still have a PR problem

The U.S. has a huge healthcare problem. The country spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country in… Read More

Ventec Life Systems raises $13M to scale one-of-a-kind portable life support device into new markets

Ventec Life Systems, the Seattle-area creator of a unique portable life support device, has raised another $13 million to… 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

Univ. of Washington spinout takes on $5.2B hospital scheduling problem with AI analytics

Hospitals have to solve a thousand logistical challenges every day, but perhaps none are more difficult than operating room schedules.… Read More

The chatbot will see you now: 98point6 launches virtual clinic app, aims to solve ‘primary care crisis’ with AI (and real doctors)

Imagine you have a minor health problem — say, an earache. Then imagine you open an app, message a doctor… Read More

Vera Whole Health aims for ‘healthcare revolution’ as it raises $5M, plans six new clinics

Vera Whole Health is not your average healthcare company. Not by a long shot. “The vision is to create… Read More

Nimble Pharmacy brings prescription drug delivery service to Seattle area

Nimble Pharmacy, a startup based in the San Francisco area, is extending its prescription drug delivery service to Seattle… Read More

Report: Amazon drops plans to sell pharmaceuticals to hospitals

Amazon has dropped a plan to start selling drugs to hospitals, according to a report by CNBC. Reports of Amazon’s interest… Read More

Healthcare companies raise $6.8B in Q1, topping tech and every other industry

Healthcare has been a winner so far in 2018, at least in terms of venture capital. That’s the takeaway from… Read More

Cambia Health and Livongo partner to bring personal, tech-driven diabetes program to Pacific Northwest

Portland, Ore., based health collective Cambia Health Solutions announced a new partnership Wednesday with Bay Area health technology company Livongo… Read More

Frazier Healthcare Partners raises $780M fund, its 11th, to invest in profitable healthcare startups

Frazier Healthcare Partners today announced the closure of a $780 million fund. It’s the firm’s 11th fund and will be… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Locumunity creates online job board for doctors seeking temporary gigs

Just as schools need substitute teachers, hospitals and medical facilities sometimes need to call in an extra doctor. But it… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Uber and Lyft meet healthcare, and is Amazon good for Seattle?

Is Amazon good for Seattle? That’s the question a community forum asked this week, with civic leaders arguing both sides.… Read More

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… 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

Apple launching medical clinics for employees, the latest move in tech’s healthcare innovation fight

Apple is launching medical clinics for its employees in the latest attempt by a large tech company to address the… 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

Amazon reportedly venturing into healthcare supplies, targeting hospitals and clinics

Amazon is expanding its reach in the healthcare supply market, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Hospital… Read More

Four things we wish we knew about Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s health venture

Three giant U.S. companies — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — announced Tuesday that they will form their own… Read More