By Mike Miliard | August 02, 2017 Payers are sizing up the ledger technology for payments and claims processing, but one big area of growth could be next-generation personal health records. It may be at the peak of hype cycle right now, but blockchain technology has been enticing stakeholders in all areas of healthcare with its potential for [...]
By Eugene Kim | Christina Farr | CNBC.com Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visits Amazon has a secret skunkworks lab called 1492, dedicated to health care tech. Areas of exploration include a platform for electronic medical record data, telemedicine and health apps for existing devices [...]
The City of Durham, North Carolina is excited to announce a new pilot program to bring innovative ideas into City Hall and allow local entrepreneurs and startups to beta test products and services. The Innovate Durham program will open up the City's resources for entrepreneurs to develop, test and scale innovative solutions to improve [...]
By JOSHUA BUCK NASA is unveiling a new opportunity for start-up companies to license patented NASA technology with no up-front payment. The Startup NASA initiative addresses two common problems start-ups face: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights. Aimed at encouraging the growth of high-tech businesses and advancing American innovation, NASA's Technology Transfer Program [...]
By Jonah Comstock | July 14, 2017 In Q2 2017, we continued to see more pharma companies step up their efforts in digital health, from app launches to FDA clearances to wearable usage in clinical trials. Read on below for a summary of those moves. In a move that could have growing significance for pharma [...]
By MobiHealthNews | June 22, 2017 Virtual reality has moved from science fiction to marketable consumer product astonishingly quickly, partly because the incorporation of the smartphone into the technology makes it accessible, if not ubiquitous. It’s looking more and more like those who bet that virtual reality is here to stay, and not a flash-in-the-pan trend, [...]
