San Mateo, California-based Evidation Health, which was launched last year by GE Ventures and Stanford Healthcare, has raised $10 million from Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures. GE Ventures and B Capital were return investors, and both firms participated in the efficacy-focused company’s $3.4 million round in October 2016. The latest investment brings the company’s total funding to at least $31 million...
Alphabet-owned Verily has launched the Project Baseline Study, a collaborative effort with Stanford Medicine and Duke University School of Medicine to amass a large collection of broad phenotypic health data in hopes of developing a well-defined reference of human health.
Project Baseline aims to gather data from around 10,000 participants, each of whom will be followed for four years, and will...
At an event in Cupertino today, Apple announced that it would take its ResearchKit framework and spin off a new, similar offering called CareKit, an open source toolkit for hospitals and health systems. CareKit will launch with two applications: one for home monitoring of Parkinson's and one for post-surgical discharge.
"When we introduced ResearchKit, our goal was to improve medical research and...
The big digital health story this week was, without a doubt, Apple's unveiling of ResearchKit, a forthcoming developer tool that will make it easier for medical researchers to use apps to collect health data for clinical studies. (If you haven't already, be sure to read our original coverage of the ResearchKit announcement right here.) What follows is a comprehensive round-up of the most...
