Google’s latest healthcare bets
On the eve of HIMSS, Obama reiterated that patient data should belong to individuals, calling for open data in research and collaboration among drugmakers and EHR companies to actualize personalized medicine.
Meanwhile "big companies are falling over each other to claim to be more open" about health data. Case in point: Verily (fka Google) just teamed up with Vanderbilt and NIH to enroll 79K participants to mine health, genetic, and lifestyle data as part of the first pilot of the Precision Medicine Initiative.
Headlines
Obama Wants To Set Patient Data Free
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Can Google's DeepMind Help Fix A Broken Healthcare System?
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An App Store For Your DNA
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Speeding Up The Digitization Of American Healthcare
Tweet | Harvard Business Review
Crisis Text Line Opens Its Treasure Trove Of Data To Researchers
Tweet | Fast Company
Dr. Robert Califf Wins Senate Confirmation To Run FDA
Tweet | The New York Times
Why You Should Care About Caregiving
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Eight Things To Know Before Heading To HIMSS
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Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Health Catalyst | $70M | UPMC Venture, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital, others | MedCity News |
| Vivify Health | $10M | UPMC Venture, Laboratory Corporation of America, Envision | MobiHealthNews |
| Opternative | $6M | Jump Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Chicago Ventures, others | MobiHealthNews |
| CenterX | $3.3M | Undisclosed | Xconomy |
| Healthsense | $2.5M | Radius Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Mansa Capital, 406 Ventures | MedCity News |
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