Author: Benjamin Clarke
This Wholesome System Tracker analysis, authored by KFF and the Peterson Middle on Healthcare, examines distant monitoring applied sciences, figuring out the forms of sufferers and well being situations they serve and what’s spent on these companies. There are an estimated 300,000 adults with employer-sponsored well being protection for whom insurers acquired at the least one distant monitoring declare in 2023. Amongst adults beneath 65 with non-public medical insurance, older folks and girls are almost definitely to make use of distant monitoring. These companies are largely used for folks with hypertension and different circulatory ailments, and musculoskeletal situations. The median…
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, proven right here at a Madrona occasion in 2024, will lead the corporate’s new Superintelligence Workforce. (GeekWire File Photograph / Todd Bishop) Microsoft has fashioned a brand new Superintelligence workforce inside its AI division, aiming to develop what it calls “humanist superintelligence” — superior AI that is still below human management. The workforce, introduced Thursday morning in a post by Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, displays the corporate’s ambitions to form the subsequent period of synthetic intelligence whereas addressing issues about security and management within the improvement of superior AI programs. “We’re doing…
Parse Biosciences co-founders are CTO Charles Roco and CEO Alex Rosenberg. (Parse Photograph) Seattle’s Parse Biosciences is teed up for an acquisition by Qiagen, a Netherlands-based holding firm, in a $225 million money deal announced immediately. The transaction is predicted to shut in December. Parse was co-founded in 2018 by Alex Rosenberg, who was a College of Washington postdoctoral fellow on the time, and Charles Roco, who was a UW graduate pupil. The corporate was an early entrant within the nascent subject of single-cell RNA sequencing. Rosenberg and his colleagues found a brand new technique to profile RNAs whereas working…
Branding for the brand new Seattle Torrent girls’s professional hockey workforce. (Instagram through pwhl_seattle) The morning after heavy rain pummeled Seattle with its wettest day of the year, one other rush of water arrived within the metropolis within the type of the identify for a brand new girls’s professional hockey workforce. The Seattle Torrent unveiled their brand identity on Thursday because the workforce will get set for its inaugural season within the Professional Women’s Hockey League. “Torrent” on this case is a nod to “highly effective waterways that form and join Washington’s distinctive panorama, symbolizing the workforce’s dedication to carve…
Digs co-founders Ty Frackiewicz (left) and Ryan Fink. (Digs Photograph) Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup that sells software program for homebuilding, raised $5 million. Based in 2022, Digs’ software program helps residential homebuilders streamline numerous elements of their workflows together with doc group, communication, and different duties. It focuses on the pre-construction and design section, turning static blueprints into digital, searchable information. Digs additionally converts construct paperwork (PDF flooring plans, change orders, and so on.) right into a 3D digital twin that helps guarantee agreements. Digs CEO Ryan Fink describes the corporate as “CarFax for the house.” “Digs affords householders a first-of-its-kind…
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston College’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar in addition to unbiased advisor Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines a number of key points and questions that lie forward for the America First World Well being Technique — the primary roadmap for what comes subsequent for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Aid (PEPFAR) and different international well being packages the US helps financially.
Glowforge co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro with the corporate’s Aura laser engraver in 2023, on the startup’s workplaces in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photograph / Kurt Schlosser) Ten years after Glowforge was based in Seattle, the startup’s longtime leaders are rebooting the laser-engraver enterprise. Following months of turmoil involving a number of rounds of layoffs, a failed funding round, and the closure of a Seattle manufacturing facility, Glowforge has undergone a restructuring by an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, a state-level course of that’s a substitute for chapter. Co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro instructed GeekWire that the corporate — which…
The July 2025 price range reconciliation legislation, referred to as the One Huge Stunning Invoice, established the Rural Well being Transformation Program (referred to right here because the “rural well being fund”), which is able to distribute $50 billion to states with authorized functions. The agricultural well being fund was created to assist offset the impression on rural areas of the legislation—which incorporates an estimated $911 billion in federal Medicaid spending reductions over ten years, together with an estimated $137 billion in rural areas based mostly on KFF estimates. The fund was additionally motivated by ongoing considerations concerning the monetary vulnerability…
An illustration of a protein created by Accipiter Bio that has two energetic websites, proven in mild and darker inexperienced, that may concurrently bind two targets. (Accipiter Bio Picture) A Seattle biotech startup born from a Nobel laureate’s lab has landed $12.7 million and partnerships with pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Kite Pharma through the use of AI to design proteins that mount a multi-pronged assault on ailments. Accipiter Biosciences emerged from stealth at present with a management staff that features researchers who labored on the College of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design beneath David Baker, a 2024 Nobel Prize in…
As the federal government shutdown continues, public help stays excessive for extending the improved ACA tax credit set to run out on the finish of the 12 months, with three quarters (74%) of the general public in favor of extending them, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. The expiring tax credit are a central problem within the ongoing Congressional funds standoff, as Democrats need the tax credit prolonged as a part of a funds deal whereas Republicans wish to reopen the federal government earlier than negotiating over an extension. With out the improved tax credit, ACA Market enrollees who…