Healthcare

Why Diagnostics Is Hard: Three Extra Challenges And How Startups Can S...

Diagnostics shares the same two key challenges as most of digital health. One, long sales cycles of 9-18 months into providers,...
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Depression Is One Companion I Can Do Without

I am determined to shut the door when it comes knockin’. *Depression Hotline* *Crisis Text Line* I’ve been depressed most of...
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Politics of Licensing and Certification

The Decades’ old Partisan instrument of Control of Scholars The purpose of licensing and certification that we see today dawns on...
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3 Billion Reasons the Biotechnological Revolution must Preserve

Reprogramming our Genetics (GNR part 2) As a fellow believer of the acceleration of technology and fanboy of esteemed futurist Ray Kurzweil,...
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Are You Thriving Remotely?

How to become all you can be in the pandemic economy Welcome to the new world. This is a world where...
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Why We Invested In Decoded Health aka “A Medical Resident In You...

In January we invested in Decoded Health as part of their $4.5M seed led by Sierra Ventures. Tau Ventures is an...
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Synthetic Biology — Golden Land Of Startups?

Synthetic biology is the branch of biotech that is about creating new biological parts from scratch or from templates in nature....
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Disaggregation of the Hospital – A Counterintuitive Opportunity ...

Tau Ventures is a seed-focused fund investing in applied AI in digital health, enterprise and automation (cars, robots). We think a...
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Keeping mHealth Apps Secure: What Developers Can Do to Keep User Data ...

Former hacker and cybersecurity expert Alissa Knight talks about her latest research on vulnerabilities in data privacy for the telemedicine and...
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Just Telling a Patient what to do isn’t usually going to Change thei...

It’s Impossible to Get People to Change their Act unless there’s a Personal Connection by which they can Empathize. The human...
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The only preexisting condition that matters

It was the summer of 2008.  A few of us were sipping a beer on a patio of the new house...
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The Silver Lining for Clinical Trials During the Pandemic

Located in major medical centers, clinical trials all but halted during the pandemic, but a new approach has given birth to...
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