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By Jonah Comstock | 04:55 pm | January 09, 2018
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the mid-Atlantic region’s largest health insurer, has made a strategic investment in Sharecare, as well as signing a contract to provide CareFirst members with access to ShareCare's suite of digital services.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:09 pm | January 08, 2018
Digital health has come a long way over the past decade.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:47 am | January 08, 2018
San Francisco-based Amino, which has offered a consumer-facing cost and quality transparency tool since 2015, is launching a new offering: its own Health Savings Account (HSA) and debit card.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:44 pm | January 04, 2018
Cityblock Health, the urban-focused public health startup that spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in October, has raised $20.
By Jonah Comstock | 04:10 pm | January 04, 2018
Consumer gene testing company 23andMe is launching a large online study on the relationship between genetics and weight loss behaviors.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:28 pm | January 03, 2018
A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that in one patient population, use or non use of a patient portal had no statistically significant effect on 30-day readmissions or 30-day mortality.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:24 pm | January 03, 2018
NHS set to offer AI system free to all hospitals.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:55 pm | January 02, 2018
Citing anonymous sources within Apple, reports in Bloomberg and the New York Times over the past weeks continue to add to the pile of leaks and rumors about two of Apple's currently under-development health devices: a wrist-worn glucose sensor and an EKG built into the Apple Watch.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:53 am | April 25, 2017
UK-based health chatbot company babylon, which raised $25 million in early 2016, has raised an additional $60 million in funding. While the company didn't disclose the investors, TechCrunch and Financial Times report that the round included Sawiris, an Egyptian billionaire business family, NNS holdings, Vostok New Ventures, and existing backers Kinnevik. They are also reporting that the company's...
By Jonah Comstock | 05:10 pm | January 26, 2017
After an inaugural class that has led to several full-scale rollouts at the hospital, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles announced its second accelerator class today.