Outbound AI founders. clockwise from top left: Stead Burwell, Jonathan Wiggs, Kshitij Moghe and Justin Ith. (Outbound AI Photos) Outbound AI has a prescription for one of the biggest headaches of the medical system: interacting with insurance companies and other payers to process claims. The Seattle startup emerged Tuesday with a software product, PayerVA Console,…
Category Archives: Health/Life Sciences
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Rippl co-founders Inca Dieterich (left) and Kris Engskov. (Rippl Photo) The news: Rippl, a Seattle startup focused on the mental health of seniors, launched Wednesday with $32 million in seed funding. The company is developing a care program focused on seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions. The model: Rippl will provide 24/7 virtual access…
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The new Halo Rise bedside sleep tracker will sell for $139.99 later this year. (Amazon Photo) Amazon unveiled a new bedside sleep-tracking device, Halo Rise, expanding its lineup of consumer health devices beyond wristbands for the first time. Announced this morning at the company’s fall Echo and Alexa product event, it’s the latest example of…
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EchoNous’ Kosmos ultrasound system. (EchoNous Image) EchoNous, which markets a compact, AI-powered ultrasound tool, has raised $57 million. The funding was noted in a recent regulatory filing and confirmed by a spokesperson. The Redmond, Wash.-based startup expects to raise an additional $15 million by the end of September as part of the Series D round,…
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AltPep CEO and founder Valerie Daggett. (AltPep Photo) Alzheimer’s disease researchers were buoyed by positive data released Tuesday from a large clinical trial of an experimental therapy being developed by Biogen and Eisai. The early data suggest that the treatment, called lecanemab, eases cognitive decline. The findings also rejuvenated hope in a therapeutic approach targeting…
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One Medical offers tech-enabled healthcare. (One Medical Image) As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could change in big ways. “It’s the start of Amazon climbing a mountain,” said Derek Streat, a health technology veteran and CEO of Seattle healthcare software startup DexCare….
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Jesse Salk, co-founder of TwinStrand. (TwinStrand Photo) TwinStrand Biosciences’ co-founder Jesse Salk has stepped down from the CEO role, according to a statement issued by the Seattle biotech company Friday. Salk will remain as chief scientific officer and a member of the board. Healthcare industry veteran Chad Brown, a former exec at Nanostring and Qiagen,…
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Mike and Jackie Bezos. (Fred Hutch Photo) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pledged on behalf of the Bezos family. “This is a transformative gift,” said Dr. Thomas Lynch, Fred Hutch president and director, in…
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Options available on the DexCare platform. (Providence Digital Innovation Group Image) DexCare, a spinout of Providence’s digital innovation group, has acquired commerce platform Womp Inc., a 12-year old Bellingham, Wash.-based startup. The purchase will add Womp’s technology for streamlining online experiences to DexCare’s toolkit for supporting health systems. “We are taking these tools, technologies, tactics…
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Viome CEO Naveen Jain reveals find out how to put a stool pattern right into a equipment for evaluation. (GeekWire Photograph / Alan Boyle) Seattle-area microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome Life Sciences is elevating more money, in keeping with a brand new regulatory submitting. The submitting reveals $67 million raised of a bigger spherical. We’ve…