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HealthTap Raises a More-Than-Healthy $24M in Funding
HealthTap, the mobile medical Q&A app, has raised $24 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures. The two-year-old company describes its service as a remote “triage” for health care, something that may become increasingly relevant with the advent of Obamacare (also in this vein — an upcoming concierge health care app called Better). New Khosla partner Keith Rabois is joining the HealthTap board.
Can a 24/7 Medical App Save Your Life? Better Thinks So.
Better wants to offer the “black card” of medical services.
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“Big Data” for Cancer Care
A major oncology group is launching an ambitious project to collect data on the care of hundreds of thousands of cancer patients and use it to help guide treatment of other patients across the health-care system.For Apple, Fighting DOMA and Prop. 8 Is More Than Business as Usual
Apple speaks out on marriage equality issues.
Medical Data Is the Next Target for Hackers in 2013
Plenty of holes plus rules that haven’t kept pace equals trouble.
#scoopfail
The real lesson here is that the scoop is and always has been a dangerous act of journalistic narcissism. Did it truly matter if one outlet “broke” the same information that other outlets — and the world of the Internet — knew a second before another?
– Jeff Jarvis on the failure of CNN, Fox and other outlets to report Thursday’s Supreme Court decision accurately
SCOTUS Decision + ObamaCare = Internet Fun (And Not So Much)
For those who tweeted that they now want to move to Canada over the Supreme Court’s backing of President Obama’s health care overhaul: They have an even bigger public health care system!
In a Medical Crisis, Service Helps Others to Help You
A free service creates a detailed online physical and digital profile of your medical and personal info.
Health Help: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Talks About New CareZone Start-Up (Video)
Here’s a very intriguing new social networking site called CareZone, aimed at helping people managing chronic health care issues. (I can tell you, based on my own recent scare, it’s needed.)
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