Dave Muoio

Across a number of different specialties, students – and even practitioners – can put practical technology skills to use and gain an emphasis on collaboration for the rest of their careers.

Also: DispatchHealth adds a new COO, and Saykara announces a new marketing VP.

Investors are no longer meeting new partners face to face, but primed funds and new demand for converging digital products still fuel new deals.

Large health tech customers are more cautious and overwhelmed than ever, which means that many younger digital health startups will face an uphill battle selling their products in the months to come.

The Cue Health Monitoring System can deliver its results through a smartphone dashboard, and is intended for use by health professionals and consumers alike.

Also: A deep dive on Verily's Project Baseline; Intermountain Healthcare launches home-monitoring program.

The latest round was led by Transformation Capital with participation from GGV Capital, WTI and unnamed individual investors. 

VitalBreath powered by BreathResearch will support a patient app, adherence tracking and data analyses capabilities focused on detecting early respiratory decline.

The research effort is a collaboration with nonprofit 4YouandMe, and will collect self-reported symptoms and wearables data from 300 high-risk participants.

Seeking to cut down an individual's risk of infection, the app encourages frequent washing with appropriate technique.