UPDATED. Insurance startup Oscar Health is seeking approval to enter California’s health benefits exchange by 2016, telling its board of directors that the company’s focus on consumers would be beneficial to the state. Started in early 2014, New York-based Oscar is trying to position itself as the technology-driven, consumer-focused alternative to the big carriers. It’s […]
The year 2014 has been absolutely deluged, in a good way, with health startups, particularly within the health IT space. From the seemingly ubiquitous data analytics companies looking to help hospitals to applying the shared-economy principal to hospital equipment to mining data from imaging, new ideas abound. What follows are the ones that stood out […]
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.
A New York-based health insurance startup said it will offer members free Misfit wearable fitness trackers, along with $240 in Amazon gift cards a year to users who download the app and use it to track walking. Beginning in January, Oscar Health Insurance said it would give members the wearable device, which retails for $50 […]