Posts Tagged ‘health care’
How Our Phones Can Tell When We’re Sick
In this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, my story on Ginger.io, a startup that uses mobile phone data to tell when people aren’t feeling well.
Rehabbing Cancer Survivors
This week on Bloomberg.com, my profile of Julie Silver, a Harvard rehab physician and breast cancer survivor whose startup trains healthcare providers to rehabilitate cancer patients. When I started reporting this, I was surprised to learn most cancer survivors get very little rehab care, the kind of therapies that are standard for people after strokes, heart attacks, or traumatic injuries. For a deeper dive into the problem, read this piece from Kaiser Health News and the Washington Post.
Vanishing Health Benefits
A look at the shrinking number of employers in each state that offer health insurance, courtesy of data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.