Google’s healthcare misfires
Why is healthcare so deadly? In Scientific American, Dr. Ashish Jha argued it's not because of medical errors, but because the "sloppy" system is “inadequate to the complexities of 21st-century medicine"—including a deluge of information. Steve Lohr's front-page New York Times article shed light on the painfully slow pace of technology's impact, especially in healthcare, while STAT chronicled the long delays and misfires of Google's health projects.
Thankfully, our own Evidation Health is validating the clinical and economic impact of healthcare's digital tools—and just got a $11.6M boost to its efforts!
Headlines
Google Misfires As It Strives To Turn Star Trek Fiction Into Reality
Tweet | STAT
The Real Cause Of Deadly Medical Errors
Tweet | Scientific American
Unpaid, Stressed, And Confused: Patients Are The Healthcare System's Free Labor
Tweet | Vox
A Year Later: AMA Ethics Council To Consider Telemedicine Guidelines Again
Tweet | MobiHealthNews
Jawbone Refutes Reports That It Will Exit The Fitness Tracker Market
Tweet | Engadget
Armed FBI Agents Raid Home Of Researcher Who Found Unsecured Patient Data
Tweet | Ars Technica
Scientists Launch Plan To Create Synthetic Human Genome
Tweet | STAT
Hospitals Achieve 96% EHR Adoption Rate; Data Exchange Still Needs Work
Tweet | Modern Healthcare
Aetna Sells $13B Of Bonds To Back Humana Purchase
Tweet | The Wall Street Journal
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Evidation Health | $11.6M | B Capital Group | MedCity News |
| RubiconMD | $4M | Waterline Ventures, Dioko Health Ventures, Alma Mundi Fund | MobiHealthNews |
| Medella Health | $1.4M | 1517 Fund, Fifty Years Fund, Garage Capital, BDC Capital | MobiHealthNews |
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