Laura Lovett

Consumer health software service company Welltok just announced it raked in $75 million in Series E2 funding.

Last week on-demand healthcare concierge for provider employers Accolade received $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and McKesson Ventures, with participation from Cross Creek Advisors and Madera Technologies.

Innovators compete.

Folks in need of physical therapy services may not have to leave the house for treatment.

Aneesh Chopra said that the healthcare industry needs to start looking at privacy and ethics, especially in the midst of recent Cambridge Analytics and Facebook problems.

With artificial intelligence and augmented reality popping up around every corner in healthcare, players in the industry are beginning to reflect on how tech innovation in healthcare works, where it works, and whether these technologies themselves actually work.

Digital wound care company Swift Medical has just announced that it has secured $11.

A diabetes startup that uses artificial intelligence, Bigfoot Biomedical, has just announced that it scored a total of $55 million in Series B equity financing with new investments from Abbott and other existing funders.

Yesterday Dexcom got the nod from the FDA to market their Dexcom G6, an integrated continuous glucose monitoring system (iCGM), making it the first interoperable CGM to get the designation.

The healthcare innovation industry is a multifaceted ecosystem: From the energetic new startup developing a product and the venture firm backing it, to the FDA regulating the new invention, there are plenty of forces working in concert.