The articles below are exploring the themes of our upcoming health tech conference — HealthBeat 2013 — taking place May 20-21 in San Francisco. The event is putting the long-established and respected giants of the health care world on stage with Silicon Valley’s most disruptive health tech companies. Together, they’ll debate how IT can drive out inefficiencies. They’ll share insights, analyze trends, highlight solutions, and showcase breakthrough products. Seats are limited, so grab yours today.
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Michael Yang is Managing Director, Comcast Ventures.
[Editor's note: Michael Yang and Keas CEO Josh Stevens will be debating the topic of educating employees on health benefits at HealthBeat 2013 next week. See Josh Stevens' story published yesterday: "Getting American …
Patients need a better way to communicate with their physicians, and Ringadoc believes it can help. Investors agree; the San Francisco-based startup added another $700,000 to its seed round today, bringing its total funding to $1.9 million.
Guest Post As the number of systems increase, integration challenges will only grow for health providers.
Editor's Pick Will the Sand Hill Road firms open their check books for you? We caught up with Sequoia Capital's Warren Hogarth and Morgenthaler Ventures' Missy Krasner to dig deeper into their investment thesis.
Guest Post A lack of online access to help employees enroll for benefits, change their healthcare plan, or modify their 401K, means that employees are far less likely to use or even be aware of the benefits they have.
Editor's Pick While hospital robots sound like the stuff of the future, the technology is already in wide use today.
Editor's Pick Although Google Glass is still in its early (and annoying) stages, it holds a lot of promise in the medical field -- and entrepreneurs and investors are already salivating at the possibilities.
Health Q&A startup HealthTap has raised $24 million in its second round of funding and added former Square COO Keith Rabois to its board of directors.
Entrepreneurs enrolled in the accelerator will get $20,000 in seed capital to help jumpstart new digital health businesses.
Editor's Pick Venture capital is drying up for early-stage medical devices. Experts say that American patients are already "missing out" on the most innovative treatment options.
"Imagine all diagnostics some day being reduced to a simple blood test," said CEO Roopam Banerjee, who believes Raindance products are a "step in that direction."
Editor's Pick HopeLab's six free-to-play online minigames help kids understand why they need to take medicine that makes them feel sick.
The goal for the multiyear partnership is to make genetic analysis a routine part of patient care.
Demo Mobile kicked off this morning with presentations from four mobile health startups. Each of these companies is applying mobile technology to the medical field to give people more control over their bodies, or to streamline the clinical process for physicians.
Guest Post Providing the right information and regular support for patients is something the health care system will never, ever be able to do on its own. A big part of the solution will come from startups like us, but probably not from the likes of Facebook. Here’s why:
Funding for digital health startups skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013, according to a newly released report.
Guest Post In the past, small businesses could afford a certain lack of sophistication in their HR processes. It was common practice to rely on Excel, but health care reform is changing the game.
Guest Post Some say digital health investing is flailing, but it might just be getting started.
Editor's Pick Who wants to go to college if you can start earning money right away?
Facebook and Twitter are not the appropriate venues to share that your back is feeling achy, or that your bowel is acting up.
