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Gyre Renwick, vice president at Lyft, is leading the company’s healthcare team to develop partnerships and find solutions to address the major social determinant of health that impact people’s lives – getting to the doctor before an emergency.

The app offers 45-minute counseling sessions with trained (but unliscensed) mental health specialists for $35 per session. 

Kamal Obbad, Co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model.  Nebula Genomics was the winner of the 2018 Health 2.0 Launch! contest.

Solv Video Telemed allows patients booking an urgent care visit the option of immediate or scheduled video encounters, while providers can use the service to more easily manage visit volume. 

BlackBerry' new healthcare-related security products include a blockchain system for medical data and operating system for secure medical devices. 

The Boston-based startup is launching a new scheme that lets colleges and professional sports teams rent out its VR and eye-tracking technology. 

Also: quip to sell its oral health products at Target; HealthEdge's software suite coming to Fluent Health.

Accenture is now deploying its VR tool worldwide after completing initial studies in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

Published today in the Lancet, the investigation of 86 pediatric and adult Type 1 patients compared the partially automated system to a manual sensor-augmented pump therapy.

A robust infrastructure is critical to supporting connectivity from inside the hospital to the home.