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By Jonah Comstock | 04:55 pm | January 09, 2018
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the mid-Atlantic region’s largest health insurer, has made a strategic investment in Sharecare, as well as signing a contract to provide CareFirst members with access to ShareCare's suite of digital services.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:09 pm | January 08, 2018
Digital health has come a long way over the past decade.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:47 am | January 08, 2018
San Francisco-based Amino, which has offered a consumer-facing cost and quality transparency tool since 2015, is launching a new offering: its own Health Savings Account (HSA) and debit card.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:44 pm | January 04, 2018
Cityblock Health, the urban-focused public health startup that spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in October, has raised $20.
By Jonah Comstock | 04:10 pm | January 04, 2018
Consumer gene testing company 23andMe is launching a large online study on the relationship between genetics and weight loss behaviors.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:28 pm | January 03, 2018
A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that in one patient population, use or non use of a patient portal had no statistically significant effect on 30-day readmissions or 30-day mortality.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:24 pm | January 03, 2018
NHS set to offer AI system free to all hospitals.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:55 pm | January 02, 2018
Citing anonymous sources within Apple, reports in Bloomberg and the New York Times over the past weeks continue to add to the pile of leaks and rumors about two of Apple's currently under-development health devices: a wrist-worn glucose sensor and an EKG built into the Apple Watch.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:10 pm | January 26, 2017
After an inaugural class that has led to several full-scale rollouts at the hospital, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles announced its second accelerator class today.
By Jonah Comstock | 06:02 pm | January 25, 2017
On Tuesday, Representative Tom Price, President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced his second confirmation hearing, this time before the Senate Finance Committee (previously he had gone before the Health committee).