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Rock Health launches incubator program in Boston
San Francisco-based digital health incubator Rock Health announced plans to expand with a new program in Boston set to kickoff this June, according to the Boston Globe's tech columnist Scott Kirsner....
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Rock Health investors up seed funding for startups to $100K
Digital health accelerator Rock Health's investor partners have upped the amount of seed funding they will invest in startups that participate in the program from $20,000 to $100,000. The startups will...
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Harvard Medical to power Orca's reference apps
Medical reference app and iBook maker Orca Health announced a partnership with Harvard Medical School this week. Starting with Orca's existing HeartDecide app, Harvard Medical will begin supplying the...
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Boston Children's, Merck mine social media to study sleep health
HealthMap is a previous project from the team now studying sleep health. Boston Children's Hospital is teaming up with Merck to turn Twitter and Facebook into a new source for sleep health data --...
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How Merck's innovation team seeks business models beyond the pill
While increasing collaboration between payers and providers was a major theme at HIMSS in Orlando last week, one other major stakeholder has been quite a bit harder to find in conversations about big...
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Users engaged more with cancer-focused Facebook pages than other health pages
Researchers from Harvard and Stanford have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) that explores how much public data exists on Facebook aboutĀ several popular health...
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Harvard doctors argue the digital phenotype will change healthcare
Boston Children's Hospital's HealthMap A new editorial in Nature Biotech poses the idea of the "digital phenotype" as a catch-all term for the trail of relevant health data people leave behind in...
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Boston Children's taps John Brownstein as Chief Innovation Officer
Boston Children's Hospital hasĀ tapped John Brownstein, currently the director of the hospital's computational epidemiology group, as its new Chief Innovation Officer. Brownstein will succeed Naomi...
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BMJ: Symptom checkers get diagnosis right 34 percent of the time on average
Sharecare's AskMD. Online and mobile symptom checkers like WebMD, AskMD, iTriage, and even offerings from the Mayo Clinic and the UK's NHS, come up with an accurate diagnosis only about a third of the...
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OpenNotes will use $10 million infusion for improved website, patient...
OpenNotes, the initiative that launched in 2010 to encourage doctors to open up their clinical notes to their patients, has received $10 million in new funding to expand its movement to 50 million...
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Google partners with Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic for symptom search
Google, the world's most used search engine, is partnering with two of the world's leading health organizations to take the confusion out of symptom searching."We worked with a team of medical doctors...
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Rock Health investors up seed funding for startups to $100K
Digital health accelerator Rock Health's investor partners have upped the amount of seed funding they will invest in startups that participate in the program from $20,000 to $100,000. The startups will...
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Harvard Medical to power Orca's reference apps
Medical reference app and iBook maker Orca Health announced a partnership with Harvard Medical School this week. Starting with Orca's existing HeartDecide app, Harvard Medical will begin supplying the...
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Boston Children's, Merck mine social media to study sleep health
HealthMap is a previous project from the team now studying sleep health. Boston Children's Hospital is teaming up with Merck to turn Twitter and Facebook into a new source for sleep health data --...
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How Merck's innovation team seeks business models beyond the pill
While increasing collaboration between payers and providers was a major theme at HIMSS in Orlando last week, one other major stakeholder has been quite a bit harder to find in conversations about big...
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Users engaged more with cancer-focused Facebook pages than other health pages
Researchers from Harvard and Stanford have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) that explores how much public data exists on Facebook aboutĀ several popular health...
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Harvard doctors argue the digital phenotype will change healthcare
Boston Children's Hospital's HealthMap A new editorial in Nature Biotech poses the idea of the "digital phenotype" as a catch-all term for the trail of relevant health data people leave behind in...
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Boston Children's taps John Brownstein as Chief Innovation Officer
Boston Children's Hospital hasĀ tapped John Brownstein, currently the director of the hospital's computational epidemiology group, as its new Chief Innovation Officer. Brownstein will succeed Naomi...
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BMJ: Symptom checkers get diagnosis right 34 percent of the time on average
Sharecare's AskMD. Online and mobile symptom checkers like WebMD, AskMD, iTriage, and even offerings from the Mayo Clinic and the UK's NHS, come up with an accurate diagnosis only about a third of the...
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OpenNotes will use $10 million infusion for improved website, patient...
OpenNotes, the initiative that launched in 2010 to encourage doctors to open up their clinical notes to their patients, has received $10 million in new funding to expand its movement to 50 million...
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