Tag: healthcare
Healthtech Investors Can Help Victims of Last Epidemic — Opioid Addiction...
Opioid addiction is challenging the U.S. healthcare industry even as doctors, nurses and clinics mobilize to battle COVID-19 -- and impact investors...
China’s Surveillance State Meets Coronavirus: App Lets Users Track Proximity to...
A Chinese app that lets users check their proximity to people infected with coronavirus may be poised to backfire because it’s unreliable...
Babylon Health’s Algorithm, By Linking Needles in Medical Haystacks, May Improve...
Babylon Health, whose chatbot app is already disrupting the U.K.’s National Health Service, is aiming for perhaps a greater revolution: supercharging medical...
Top 10 Impact Investing Trends for 2020
Key Takeaway: We enter the new decade full of promise for innovation and discoveries in healthcare, financial services and clean energy. Here...
How Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Fix Science
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s embattled co-founder and CEO, isn’t just interested in creating the biggest ad machine and political platform in history. He...
KKR Said to Approach Walgreens Boots for Potential Largest Buyout Ever...
KKR, which last month said profit slipped on costlier dealmaking, proposed buying Walgreens Boots Alliance as the private equity firm pushes deeper...
Google’s Porat Sees AI as Weapon in Breast Cancer War, as...
Google says it wants to be more than just a search engine for breast-cancer patients -- a point CFO Ruth Porat makes...
Alphabet, Amazon and Apple Push Hard into Healthcare, Leveraging Digital and...
Key Takeaway: The world’s biggest tech firms, including Alphabet, Amazon and Apple,...
Pinterest Burnishes Clean Image With Tool to Curb Vaccine Misinformation
It seems impossible to go a week without another social network handling fallout from another fake news scandal. Digital pinboard Pinterest, however,...
Uber, Lyft Target The Unhip: Medicare Patients Need Rides to Appointments
Uber and rival Lyft have set their sights on a not-so-hip crowd -- elderly passengers needing a ride to a medical appointment....