Three tech developments impacting healthcare

Let's dig into some recent tech developments with interesting implications for healthcare, like this new blockchain consortium created by thirty companies that could impact healthcare infrastructure and data sharing. Salesforce beefed up its healthcare vertical with capabilities that could compete with EHRs and other vendors, while Amazon wants to deploy Alexa at call centers—potentially saving untold millions in patient time and sanity—not to mention payer admin costs.

Headlines

NantHealth Stock Drops After STAT Exposé
Tweet | STAT

Effect Of Reminder Devices On Medication Adherence
Tweet | JAMA

Thiel’s Chief Of Staff Tapped As White House Deputy CTO
Tweet | TechCrunch

Healthcare Hacked Even More Than The Financial Sector In Last Three Years
Tweet | Wired

Inside A Wired Nursery: Lots Of Tech, But Not Much Proof It Helps
Tweet | STAT

Silicon Valley, It Pays To Care About Public Health
Tweet | Fast Company

Rock Health in the News

New Collective Health Tool Ensures Digital Health Products Actually Get Used
Tweet | MobiHealthNews

What Does The State Of Digital Health Adoption Tell Us About Its Future?
Tweet | HIT Consultant

Funding

• A16Z led Freenome's $65M round to compete in the liquid biopsy space
• Medisafe brought in $14.5M to help patients manage their medicines
• ClassPass competitor Zenrez raised another $6M
• Lucy, the support system for new parents, raised $2.25M