Cityblock combines primary care services, behavioral care, chronic disease management, substance abuse treatment and services that address social determinants like transportation, housing and access to healthy food.
Last year, the New York-based company sued insurer Florida Blue, a licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association over its exclusive broker policy, which it claimed was anti-competitive and reduces customer choice.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
While the Study Watch was designed as investigational tool, it's likely the company will integrate features developed on the device onto its more consumer-oriented offerings.
Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat and Silver Lake Managing Director Egon Durban will be nominated to join Verily's operating board.
The company has launched its Circle Plus product which adds three major New York providers - Northwell Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Westmed Medical Group - to its network.
Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser laid out what brought the company to where it is today and how it plans to lean into some of the larger shifts in the healthcare system during an onstage interview at Rock Health 2018 Summit in San Francisco.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
After CapitalG and Google Ventures invested in Oscar, now comes parent Alphabet with $375 million in tow for the health insurance startup. Does Google want your health data?
"The evidence is clear that non-medical factors have a dramatic impact on a person's health," said Iyah Romm, CEO of Cityblock Health, a startup that spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs last year.
Alphabet's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind and the Department of Veterans Affairs will analyze patterns from 700,000 historical, depersonalized patient medical records to see if machine learning can pinpoint risk factors for patient deterioration.
Senosis Health has developed apps that harness smartphone technology including sensors and camera components to screen for different diseases.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
A look at the most popular stories at MedCity News for 2016 from drug patent expirations to analysis on telemedicine company HealthSpot's demise and a timeline charting the rise and fall of Theranos.
Exactly one hour after Siemens Healthineers announced a deal with IBM Watson Health, 3M Health Information Systems said it was teaming with the Google-affiliated Verily Life Sciences to develop technology to support population health management.
Also, Supreme Court rules that GSK must face racketeering lawsuit, Gilead wins patent battle with Merck and Biden introduces a system to help cancer researchers share genomic and clinical data.
Verily also is getting called out for selling data on research volunteers to pharma companies.
How much of an impact will Google/Alphabet and Verily have in healthcare?