AthenaHealth scoops up Epocrates to bring a mobile toolset to doctors

Epocrates Inc., a medical applications company based in Silicon Valley, is being scooped up by AthenaHealth for $293 million.

Doximity’s Jeff Tangney on VC in medicine, self-quantification, and how to get a sleep score of 100

Health care is a massive part of the U.S. economy -- about 20 percent -- but it's not one that we talk about often when we think of venture capital. That might be about to change.

Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death

The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy music.

Rather, it’s doctors.

More specifically, medical mistakes and errors resulting from miscommunication. That’s exactly what …