After health misfires, Google grows up
After sobering misfires in past “moonshot” projects, Google is responding to the maturing digital health ecosystem and toning down its promises for its latest health endeavor. "We grew up,” says Verily CEO Andy Conrad. Its long-awaited eight-figure Baseline project will track 10K people to “map human health”—molecularly and digitally—in collaboration with Duke and Stanford. While Google maps health, we also learned what has been killing Americans for the last 35 years.
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Funding
- ZappRx pulled in $25M to make it easier to manage specialty drug prescriptions
- Solv launched in beta with $6.3M to help patients book same-day doctor appointments
- Santa Cruz-based Murj emerged with $4.5M to streamline workflow for heart monitoring devices