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Privacy is dead: Microsoft intercepts, decrypts, and reads Skype messages

Privacy is dead: Microsoft intercepts, decrypts, and reads Skype messages

May 20, 2013 7:02 pm by | 1 Comments

Skype used to be what you would use to send secure, encrypted, and untraceable messages to friends, family, and business associates all over the world. Not any more. According to ... Read more
Qualcomm CTO explains why telecomm & the BRAIN Initiative are actually a good fit

Qualcomm CTO explains why telecomm & the BRAIN Initiative are actually a good fit

May 16, 2013 5:27 pm by | 0 Comments

Telecomm giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is no stranger to the world of connected health, but its interest in healthcare actually reaches much further than that.Today, Qualcomm CTO Matt Grob was ... Read more
New Google Glass hack gives doctors the power of face recognition

New Google Glass hack gives doctors the power of face recognition

May 13, 2013 4:48 pm by | 0 Comments

While there’s a lot of talk about how Google Glass could one day be used in hospitals, hackers are creating that future today.A group of programmers has created an app ... Read more
The mobile testing challenge: How to improve your UX and prepare for the future

The mobile testing challenge: How to improve your UX and prepare for the future

May 11, 2013 2:41 pm by | 0 Comments

It’s one of the biggest headaches for mobile developers and organizations launching mobile initiatives, and one where the most capital can be wasted: mobile testing. Since testing can amount to ... Read more
HealthTap wins over Khosla and big Series B round

HealthTap wins over Khosla and big Series B round

May 8, 2013 6:45 am by | 0 Comments

HealthTap has raised $24 million in Series B financing, with Khosla Ventures leading the round.Previous investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated. Keith Rabois will join HealthTap’s board ... Read more
5 strategic reminders for healthcare startups

5 strategic reminders for healthcare startups

May 6, 2013 2:22 pm by | 0 Comments

Some advice is good enough to repeat and repeat and repeat. Marti Nyman is managing director of Altavail Partners, LLC, an innovation, strategy and business acceleration consultancy. He also writes ... Read more
Square is tracking where you buy to predict what you’ll buy next

Square is tracking where you buy to predict what you’ll buy next

May 4, 2013 1:22 pm by | 0 Comments

The promise of social checkins has always been that they’ll make money by revealing to marketers where you are and when you want to buy stuff. Payments startup Square thinks ... Read more
Another example of how state laws make healthcare even more complicated

Another example of how state laws make healthcare even more complicated

May 3, 2013 3:19 pm by | 1 Comments

As I was writing about WellnessFX and their free blood test, I dug into LabCorp’s site. I wondered if there were laws about releasing lab results directly to patients.Obviously I ... Read more
I would spend HSA dollars to cut out the bloodwork middle man

I would spend HSA dollars to cut out the bloodwork middle man

May 2, 2013 4:44 pm by | 0 Comments

Waiting for lab results was the second biggest patient gripe in a recent Consumer Reports survey of patients. Now there is a free solution to that hassle: WellnessFX is offering ... Read more
This ex-finance/retail exec has found a good fit funding tech for a better patient experience

This ex-finance/retail exec has found a good fit funding tech for a better patient experience

May 2, 2013 4:06 pm by | 0 Comments

What happens when you’ve got a degree in economics, a deep interest in wellness and a resume that includes EA Games, Gap Inc. and KFC Corp. as previous employers? If ... Read more
Check out 21 of the best #ifihadglass ideas for Google Glass in healthcare

Check out 21 of the best #ifihadglass ideas for Google Glass in healthcare

May 1, 2013 10:31 am by | 0 Comments

Some of the venture capital investors behind the Glass Collective, a project that will provide seed funding for developers and companies creating apps for Google Glass, said recently that they’re ... Read more
There’s a startup for that! New technologies address patients’ biggest medical gripes

There’s a startup for that! New technologies address patients’ biggest medical gripes

April 30, 2013 1:30 pm by | 0 Comments

Consumer Reports asked 1,000 people what bugs them most about going to the doctor, and the top responses might surprise you.The obvious gripes, like long waits to see the doctors ... Read more
Jawbone acquires BodyMedia, launches Up app platform

Jawbone acquires BodyMedia, launches Up app platform

April 30, 2013 10:01 am by | 0 Comments

Jawbone is putting the pieces in place to become a wearable health technology leader. The company announced today that it’s acquiring BodyMedia, creator of sophisticated health tracking devices used on ... Read more
Two healthcare innovators join “Super Mayor” and Zappos CEO on Dreamers & Doers list

Two healthcare innovators join “Super Mayor” and Zappos CEO on Dreamers & Doers list

April 29, 2013 12:31 pm by | 0 Comments

Government Technology issues its Top 25 list every year to recognize the “hardest-working and most innovative individuals in the public sector.” Two people working to improve public health and healthcare ... Read more
Shower test: Robert Scoble offers proof that Google Glass is waterproof

Shower test: Robert Scoble offers proof that Google Glass is waterproof

April 28, 2013 6:32 pm by | 0 Comments

If you were wondering if Google Glass survived a full shower, here’s some photographic proof courtesy of tech industry cheerleader Robert Scoble. ’You thought I was kidding when I said ... Read more