Healthcare social media analytics startup Sickweather inks deal with The Weather Co.
The partnership with The Weather Company is a milestone for the stratup that could significantly boost it brand exposure.
Google has some competition in crowdsourcing public health
BuzzFeed discusses how analysis of social media and Internet search habits has proven so useful in identifying public health outbreaks and other trends.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Illness analysis of social media flags up states with most sick and healthy residents in 2014
Big data analytics in healthcare was the leading investment segment of digital health this year. The Ebola virus outbreak, interest in tracking different flu strains and the terrible consequences of the anti-vaccine movement have underlined the value in using public health data for disease surveillance. Sickweather, a Baltimore-based digital health company, developed a way to […]
Sickweather logo, app name theft by fraudsters highlights app store security woes
Graham Dodge, the founder and CEO of Sickweather, is less than thrilled that a company appears to have ripped off its logo and latest app name in Apple’s iTunes iStore. Sickweather has a mobile health app that filters social media chatter to identify public health trends. What’s particularly galling is that it hoped to use […]