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Amazon Has a Secret Health Tech Team Called 1492 Working on Medical Records, Virtual Doc Visits
Amazon has started a skunkworks lab headquartered in the company’s Seattle home base to work on healthcare technology innovations. Dubbed 1492, the lab is focusing on both hardware and software projects, including pulling data from existing electronic medical records and telemedicine projects. The idea is to make...
Amazon Sees GRAIL as a Special Opportunity for its Cloud Business
In March 2017, Amazon invested in GRAIL, a health startup that is researching deep sequencing technology to discover early signs of cancer in the blood. At the time, it was unclear as to why Amazon would be interested in a company like this, given the fact that the tech giant doesn’t normally invest in startups in...
Alphabet Invests in Bay Area Biotech Startup, Builds It a New Lab on Verily Campus
Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences spinoff, has invested in Bay Area biotech startup Freenome in a $65 million Series A round. Freenome’s work revolves around detecting early-stage cancer. As part of the investment, Verily constructed a new lab for the company. Freenome’s 40 employees have already moved to the new...
Genetic Testing: Do We Really Want to Know?
In a recent article for the Financial Times, David Crow details how cancer has deeply affected his family: five family members, including his mother, have died of cancer. Hereditary cancer tests like those offered by Myriad Genetics make it possible for individuals like David to analyze their genes for defects known...
Amazon Is Showing Interest In the Healthcare Industry
The possibility of Amazon’s expansion into healthcare has some industry insiders worried. “I get asked all the time what Amazon is doing,” said Tom Rodgers, managing director of McKesson Ventures. “Everyone in the supply chain is nervous. It’s a low-level paranoia that Amazon will drive down profitability.” Amazon...
Google Parent Company Alphabet Releases Glass Enterprise Edition
When Google originally released Google Glass back in 2012, it failed to catch on with individuals. Now, however, the latest Glass Enterprise Edition has found its home in business, particularly in the industrial and healthcare industries. Designed to clip onto glasses or safety goggles, Glass EE allows users to get...
The Referral Management Software Market Offers Huge Growth Opportunities for the Future
A recent report from Technavio found major growth opportunities in the referral growth management software market through 2021. Growth management software has become vital in the healthcare industry, where it helps providers reduce operational expenses and manage the details of keeping hospitals and clinics running...
House Calls Company Landmark Extends Senior Care Services
Landmark Health believes in offering in-home medical care for seniors that could prevent or delay their need for continuing or nursing home care. Based in Buffalo, New York, Landmark has been providing assistance to in-home care providers since October of 2014. While Landmark doesn't consider itself a direct...
Evariant Appoints Tom Schultz Chief Growth Officer
Evariant, the healthcare industry’s leading CRM platform, has appointed Thomas (Tom) Schultz as its new Chief Growth Officer. Beginning July 31st, Schultz will directly oversee the company’s corporate, product, and go-to-market strategies. “I am energized by Evariant’s vision for the future and their track record of...
Ascension and PokitDok Rely on AWS to Bring New Healthcare Products to Customers
"What's happening right now is almost a digital revolution in healthcare," says Ascension's Chris Young. According to Young, while the healthcare industry has been lagging when it comes to technology, it's now starting to catch up, particularly in terms of digital healthcare offerings. Ted Tanner, Jr., who founded...
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