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DNAnexus makes the lab bigger than the laptop
Sequencing became cheaper. Making sense of the results remained expensive. DNAnexus built a business in that gap, moving biomedical research into shared cloud workspaces - with all the promise, bills and permissions that entails.
hc1 and the hospital that thought it had a good deal
A laboratory can tell you what is wrong with a patient. hc1 thinks it can also tell you what is wrong with a hospital’s business - provided someone is willing to act on the result.
Verily Bet Billions on Health Moonshots. Then It Learned to Clean the Data.
The Alphabet spinout tried smart contact lenses, surgical robots and a watch built for research. After layoffs and a strategic reset, its real product looks less cinematic - and potentially more useful: turning health care’s unruly data into evidence, decisions and care.
Healthlane
Healthlane is an African preventive-health company (Y Combinator W20) that pairs a mobile app with a network of diagnostic laboratories to give people personalized health checkups and screening. Founded by Alain Nteff and Dr. Agbor Ashumanyi Ako, it grew out of the maternal-health service GiftedMom with a goal of catching disease early rather than treating it late.
DexaFit
DexaFit is a health-testing company that turns a quick, low-radiation full-body DXA scan into a broad picture of a person's health - body composition, bone density, visceral fat and metabolic markers. Its AI arm, DexaFit Dx, layers machine learning on top of those same scans to screen for major chronic diseases such as coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes, aiming to catch them early and non-invasively. Founded in Chicago in 2011 and now operating dozens of centers, DexaFit pairs in-person testing with an app that translates results into longevity scores, disease-risk estimates and trackable goals.