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Sometimes the ways technology can improve the patient experience are complex new sensors, patient engagement apps, or telepresence robots.

Digital health accelerator Healthbox has added ten companies to its next accelerator, which will be located in Chicago.

Chicago-based Opternative has launched an online refractive eye exam service that helps consumers get prescriptions for glasses or contacts.

Smart hand hygiene sensor-maker SwipeSense, based in Evanston, Illinois, has raised $9.

Digital health accelerator Healthbox has added 10 startups to its next accelerator, which will be based in Miami.

When Intermountain Healthcare, a large Utah-based hospital system, invested in digital health accelerator Healthbox last April, they announced that Intermountain would be one of the first testbeds for a Healthbox "foundry" program.

Digital health accelerator Healthbox has added eight companies to its next accelerator, which will be located in Chicago.

Bayer HealthCare, a German pharmaceutical company, has underscored pharma's growing interest in mobile health by starting a new health accelerator.

Yosko, a hospital software startup that is now a veteran of three digital health accelerators, is gearing up to launch pilots with as many as five hospitals this year.