How Obamacare could boost entrepreneurship
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Here’s what we know about the Affordable Care Act: 32 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will now have…
Box gets deeper into healthcare with new partners, strategic hire and $100k app challenge
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.comBack in April, cloud collaboration startup Box made its first big public foray into healthcare with the announcement that its service was HIPAA-compliant and that it had partnered with 10 health-related applications. Now, the IPO-bound…
As consumer tech speeds up innovation in health, can traditional med tech keep up?
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.comConsumer tech and telecom names like Verizon, AT&T and Sony may be relative newcomers to health care, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to give industry stalwarts a run for their money.
According to a Monday report from…
Why Azumio’s Argus wants to be your all-in-one picture of health
Kevin C. Tofel, gigaom.comHealth tracking apps are all the rage, particularly as wearable devices gain more wireless sensors to gather data. All that disparate data is useful, but how do you put it all together? Enter Argus, an app from Azumio that the compa…
FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps
by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.comThe FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR.
The Wild West of mobile medical apps is gett…
Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.comGoogle is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself.
Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…
The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.comEverywhere you look these days, there seems to be yet another sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to monitor everything from your heart rate and posture to your brain waves and breathing patterns.
Dr. Leslie Saxon is the found…
Could a breath-monitoring headset improve your health?
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.comWearable technology and quantified self fans already strap gadgets to all different parts of their bodies to keep tabs on their activity levels, calories burned, heart rates and more. But a Walnut Creek, Calif. company believes…
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