July 25, 2014

Weekly Business Newsletter

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Big Question

Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health?

Medical data is a hot spot for venture investing and product innovation. The payoff could be better care.

 
 

Business Reports

Inside the Business of Data-Driven Health Care

Industry resources, upcoming events, companies to watch, and a primer on reimbursement.

 

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Business Reports

23andMe’s Plan to Overcome FDA Concerns Over DNA Tests

The DNA testing firm hopes a more coöperative approach with regulators will get its business back on track.

 
 

Business Reports

Harvard’s Isaac Kohane Digging through Data to Improve Health

A Q&A with one of the leading inventors of tools for medical data analytics.

 
 

Business Reports

IBM Watson’s Plan to End Human Doctors’ Monopoly on Medical Know-How

Big Blue thinks its Jeopardy! champion Watson can make money by offering health-care providers new expertise without hiring new staff.

 
 

Business Reports

Mobile Technologies Could Revolutionize Health Care If It Can Overcome Challenges

Full of promise, mobile health still needs to wow patients and nail down its payoff.

 
 

Business Reports

Data’s Payoff Is Unknown

Hospitals are spending billions collecting and analyzing medical data. The one data point no one is tracking: the payoff.

 
 

Business Reports

Vinod Khosla Predicts a Better, Mobile Future for Medicine

VC legend Vinod Khosla believes that medicine will go mobile and most doctors will be out of a job.

 
 

Business Reports

The Failure of C8 Medisensors’ Bid to Make a Mobile Blood Sugar Monitor

Many have tried to develop a painless, continuous glucose tracking system, but all have failed. C8 Medisensors may have come the closest.

 
 

Business Reports

Mayo Clinic’s Data-Driven Health Care

Data is helping one of the country’s leading hospitals solve tough medical questions.

 
 

Business Reports

Startup BaseHealth Pioneers a New Kind of Medical Record

As medical data goes digital, patients gain power.

 
 

Business Reports

GlaxoSmithKline Leads a Surprising Push for Data Sharing

Normally super-secretive, pharmaceutical companies are opening up in the hopes of jump starting drug development.

 
 

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Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending July 26, 2014)

Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.

 
 

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Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending July 26, 2014)

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.

 
 

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Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending July 19, 2014)

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