Livongo: an important benchmark for digital health
Livongo just went public after raising over $350 million in its IPO Livongo has been launched in 2014 and emerged from a previous company called EosHe…
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Africa’s first biobank start-up receives seed funding
The 54gene start-up aims to collect data from the African continent for better representation of genetic variability 54gene, an Africa-focused genom…
A pioneering degree programme by Humanitas University and Politecnico di Milano
Humanitas University, dedicated to the Life Sciences, closely integrated with Humanitas Hospital and Research Centre, together with the Politecnico di …
watchOS 6 advances health and fitness capabilities for Apple Watch
San Jose, California — Apple previewed watchOS 6, which empowers Apple Watch users to better manage their health and fitness, and gives access to dynam…
Instagram will begin blocking hashtags that return anti-vaccination misinformation
The company says it will use machine learning to identify where misinformation shows up most Instagram will begin hiding search results for hashtags t…
Amazon’s healthcare plans and projects
Over the last two years Amazon’s healthcare plans have gone from being a closely guarded secret to underpinning a series of very public deals and produ…
Ovia: the app that shares your health records with your boss
Diana Diller, 39, of Los Angeles used the Ovia app to log daily updates when she was pregnant with her daughter, Simone. The aggregated data she filed …
NHS App pilot report: impact on practice staff and patients’ user experience
The NHS App was made available on Google Play and the App Store at the end of last year NHS Digital has published this week findings from research c…
Digital health fosters new ecosystems; start-up investment up 56% to over $18bn
A new ecosystem of health innovation to prevent disease, nurtures health, encourages a culture of wellness and generates value for business Milan, 1 A…
Comatose: a book “dreamt” by Tony Estrella
HealthTech prominently featured in Comatose, a globe-trotting fiction novel crafted on lucid dreams from Tony Estrella and published by Cranthorpe Mill…