Genetic testing company, Orig3n’s ‘DNA Day’ gets sacked, as officials call a time-out on the the company’s unique play.  Sorry these puns basically write themselves. 

If you thought it would take an act of Congress to see telehealth capabilities for Medicare plans, well you’re right. Telehealth is becoming more and more accepted, understood and encouraged by both sides of the aisle.

Aka “Why pharma should advertise on Facebook.” That’s basically the subject of a breakfast held in New York recently for pharmaceutical marketers.

The doctor will see you now.. for $149 per month plus check twitter for exact times.  A mobile trailer designed by the startup Forward shows off the future of health care — as envisioned by Google and Uber veterans. It has raised $100 million.

If a physician-researcher who specializes in consumerism and price transparency can’t effectively price shop for a procedure, that tells you it’s pretty bad out there. It can be fixed, but there’s more to it than just a transparency website and bundled payments.

“All the feels.” I’m too old to know if I’m using that phrase properly, however, I can tell you that designing for emotion is the holy grail of product design and only a few companies actually achieve it.

Flat falls flat?  In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones. 

It’s always great to see the early pitch decks from wildly successful companies. It’s like looking at old photos of your kids and thinking, “Awh, they were so young and sweet back then.”