Google's entry into the healthcare market was cemented with its acquirement of health monitoring Seattle startup Senosis Health for $3.2 billion in the summer of 2017 with an eye toward building its digital health capabilities. According to reports, Senosis makes products for monitoring hemoglobin counts, lung function, newborn jaundice and osteoporosis. Its applications — SpiroSmart, SpiroCall, HemaApp and OsteoApp — were under FDA review when it was sold. Those products are subject to … [Read more...] about Digital Startups in Healthcare: Google’s Nest To Expand Into Healthcare Market
Amazon, Tech Giants Try To Fix Broken Healthcare System
According to reports, a group of traditional tech giants, including Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce, proposed a similar set of standards and pledged to make products (including selling medical supplies directly to hospitals and clinics) that support them to help the healthcare industry. The group wants to build tools for the health community around a set of common standards for exchanging health information electronically, called "FHIR." FHIR offers healthcare providers and … [Read more...] about Amazon, Tech Giants Try To Fix Broken Healthcare System
