FirstHealth of the Carolinas will use HealthMyne platform to improve lung cancer screening
Founded in 2013 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, HealthMyne offers a quantitative imaging decision support platform for radiology and oncology.
This Colorado startup is rethinking lung cancer screening
The Denver-based company, Eon, offers a cloud-based application for lung cancer screening and incidental nodule management and counts Cleveland Clinic and LifePoint Health among its clients.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Behind Grail, Illumina’s billion-dollar diagnostics startup
With a billion dollars in private financing and a test projected to generate a terabyte of data per person, Grail has seeded a new category of diagnostics and Big Data. Despite this, the company story shared by CEO Jeff Huber is mostly about people.
Exclusive: Counsyl’s oncology unit falters; 24 lose jobs
Counsyl is shutting down its oncology business just seven months after launching the division. Some 24 jobs will be lost as the company concentrates its efforts in women's health and carrier screening.
Why regular cancer screening might be overkill
The number of cancer diagnostics companies these days seems innumerable, each hawking a new way to screen some subset of the populace for a grave disease. Their argument? Early diagnosis = early intervention = avoiding early death. But a great piece from FiveThirtyEight counters the idea of broad-scale cancer screening. It cites South Korea as a […]