Health Tech News Roundup; Week of January 23rd
What we're reading:
Forward has made headlines for their unique $150 per month subscription to a physician's office, but their plan also relies heavily on AI and wearable sensors. More
Researchers at Yale are using a secure cloud platform called Hugo to allow patients to compile data from multiple EHRs. More
Donald Trump pulls funding on ads encouraging people to sign up for insurance under the ACA. More
Chan Zuckerburg Initiative acquires Canadian AI startup to improve speed of research sharing. More
Open Source clinical document architecture (CDA) tool praised by practitioners. More
Gates Foundation grant boosts health metrics and evaluations research at University of Washington. More
Profits dropped at Quest Diagnostics in the 4th quarter of 2016. More
Flow Health is using AI to fight illness and predict disease for the Department of Veterans Affairs. More
The NYT offers a primer for the debate about whether the government should negotiate drug prices through the Medicare program. More
Much hyped primary care startup Forward met with enthusiasm and skepticism. Read More
IoT comes to healthcare and brings security risk along with it Read More
Researcher at Yale launch cloud platform for secure patient data sharing Read More
Hacker break into hospital system, hold cancer center patient data hostage Read More
Antitrust regulators block insurance mega-merger Read More
Move to Value-Based healthcare will drive demand for Big-Data Read More
Startup's clinical decision support tool for prescription error prevention validated in clinical study Read More
GE Health Cloud adding feature for advance analytics and machine learning Read More
Hospital admin software and healthcare IT provider suffers 220,000 patient breach Read More
Healthcare IT broadened its investor base in 2016 with likes of Amazon Read More
Funding News
Venrock raises $450m for its 8th fund. More
Redox, a company providing APIs for healthcare integration and interoperability, has raised $9 million in Series B funding led by RRE Ventures with participation from Flybridge Capital Partners Read More
iHear Medial, a connected hearing aid, has raised $4.1 million in Series C-2 funding led by Ameritas Insurance Read More
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquired Meta, an AI startup that speeds up the process of bringing clinical data to scientists. More
Curated by Stephen Malkowicz