Ringadoc raises $700k to move closer to the frontline of virtual health care
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San Francisco-based Ringadoc has raised an additional $700,000 to help doctors streamline communication with patients. Read more »
Startup HealthTap gets $24M to treat ‘demand shock’ of new Obamacare patients
Doctor Q&A site HealthTap has raised $24 million from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Former Square COO and new Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois is joining as a board member. Read more »
‘Robodocs’? ‘Tricorders’? How telemedicine will shape the future of health
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News that the FDA has cleared iRobot’s medical robots for use in hospitals stoked interest across the web, but ‘robodocs’ are just one way telemedicine could keep healthcare costs down, improve care and increase access to patients. Read more »
Meet health tech accelerator Blueprint Health’s latest class of startups
Blueprint Health, a startup accelerator and co-working space based in New York, is announcing Thursday its ten picks for the accelerator’s latest class of startups. Read more »
Doctors on demand: 5 startups wiping out the waiting room
An emerging group of health tech startups is trying to make healthcare more convenient by connecting patients and doctors for phone calls, Web video chats or written replies. Read more »
FCC working with startups, researchers to accelerate mHealth
Trying to give the still nascent mHealth sector a motivational kick in the pants, the Federal Communications Commission has begun working directly with startups and universities to help bring new wireless telemedicine and healthcare technologies to market faster. Read more »
Qualcomm, Verizon promote healthier living without wires
Qualcomm and Verizon are both proposing to trick out healthcare with some wireless connectivity. Qualcomm launched its new 2net cloud and mobile biometric information monitoring and sharing platform, while Verizon is developing mobile video communications technologies that could enable the virtual house call. Read more »
AT&T’s Digital Life could be its entre into the retail smart grid
AT&T is launching yet another new business division, this one called Digital Life Services. The operator hasn’t revealed many details about the new unit, but from the sound of it, this may be AT&T’s attempt to tackle the smart grid, targeting consumers and businesses directly. Read more »
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
FCC To Propose Spending $400M to Connect Rural Docs
The FCC plans to propose a new program to help rural doctors get access to broadband. At the open meeting Thursday, the agency will propose that $400 million should go to linking doctors and hospitals to the Internet at speeds of at least 10 Mbps. Read more »
