Elvie, a femtech hardware startup whose first product is a sleek smart pelvic floor exerciser, has inked a strategic partnership with the UK’s National Health Service that will make the device available nationwide through the country’s free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare service so at no direct cost to the patient. It’s a major win for the startup that was […]
View More Femtech hardware startup Elvie inks strategic partnership with UK’s NHSCategory: healthcare
Square now lets developers use its Reader to build custom checkout experiences
Square, the company you know from your favorite coffee shop’s checkout counter, is opening up its Reader hardware to developers. Using the new Square Reader SDK, developer swill be able to build their own custom checkout and point of sale experiences, no matter wether that’s a self-ordering kiosk, a mobile app for waiters or any […]
View More Square now lets developers use its Reader to build custom checkout experiencesThe quantum meltdown of encryption
Shlomi Dolev Contributor Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Self-Stabilization. Shlomi also is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief scientist of Secret Double Octopus. More posts by this contributor The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent […]
View More The quantum meltdown of encryptionHealthcare data breach in Singapore affected 1.5M patients, targeted the prime minister
In what’s believed to be the biggest data breach in Singapore’s history, 1.5 million members of the country’s largest healthcare group have had their personal data compromised. The breach affected SingHealth, Singapore’s biggest network of healthcare facilities. Data obtained in the breach includes names, addresses, gender, race, date of birth and patients’ national identification numbers. […]
View More Healthcare data breach in Singapore affected 1.5M patients, targeted the prime ministerSweden’s Engaging Care raises $800,000 for its digital healthcare SaaS
Engaging Care, a Swedish heathtech startup co-founded by Charlotta Tönsgård, who was previously CEO of online doctor app Min Doktor before being asked to step down, has raised $800,000 in “pre-seed” funding to continue building out its digital healthcare SaaS. Backing the burgeoning company are a host of well-established angel investors in the region. They […]
View More Sweden’s Engaging Care raises $800,000 for its digital healthcare SaaSTechnology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones
New technologies are often first manifested in behemoth machines that may take up entire rooms, only to be miniaturized as the technology matures. We have witnessed this shift over the last 70 years in computers, and an analogous trend is now underway in healthcare.
View More Technology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhonesFuzzy Pet Health launches a $10-per-month telemedicine vet care plan
A new subscription service will now let you chat with a vet from your smartphone for $10 per month. This telemedicine vet care plan is the latest from Fuzzy Pet Health, a subscription vet care service providing in-home vet visits to subscribers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. But while in-home pet care may take […]
View More Fuzzy Pet Health launches a $10-per-month telemedicine vet care planYC alum Modern Health, a startup focused on emotional wellbeing, gets $2.26M seed funding
About one year ago, a note from a CEO thanking his employee for using sick days to take care of her mental health went viral. It was a reminder to Alyson Friedensohn of what she wants to accomplish with Modern Health, the emotional health benefits startup she founded last year with neuroscientist Erica Johnson. “We […]
View More YC alum Modern Health, a startup focused on emotional wellbeing, gets $2.26M seed fundingKry bags $66M to launch its video-call-a-doctor service in more European markets
Swedish telehealth startup Kry has closed a $66 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A. It raised a $22.8M Series A round just over a year ago, bringing its total raised since being founded back in 2014 to around $92M. The new funding will be put towards market expansion, […]
View More Kry bags $66M to launch its video-call-a-doctor service in more European marketsNew technology can see your body through walls
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has created a system that can see your body through walls, recreating your poses when you walk, sit, or simply stand still. It uses RF waves to sense where you are and then recreates your body as a simple stick figure. It’s called RF-Pose. From the release: The […]
View More New technology can see your body through wallsBessemer launches a seed fund for startups applying machine learning to health
Seeing a tremendous opportunity to leverage machine learning technologies in the healthcare industry, Bessemer Venture Partners is launching a $10 million early-stage seed program to back new startups. Led by the firm’s celebrity healthcare investor, Steve Kraus (seriously: the guy has his own podcast), and its head of investments in Israel, Adam Fisher, the Deep […]
View More Bessemer launches a seed fund for startups applying machine learning to healthAlibaba Group agrees to sell several Tmall healthcare categories to subsidiary Alibaba Health
Alibaba Group announced today that it has agreed to sell several of the healthcare categories on Tmall, its B2C shopping platform, to digital healthcare subsidiary Alibaba Health Information Technology. In exchange, Alibaba Group will receive $10.6 billion HKD (about $1.35 billion) in newly issued shares of Alibaba Health and increase its equity stake in the […]
View More Alibaba Group agrees to sell several Tmall healthcare categories to subsidiary Alibaba Health