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White House joins Snapchat
President Obama has always run a social media savvy administration, and the White House has now added Snapchat to its list of communication tools. Follow WhiteHouse on Snapchat and read more about it here.
Is Uber the next ambulance?
- Missed hospital appointments cost healthcare companies over $150 billion a year, often just because patients have trouble getting to the hospital on time. But Columbia-based MedStar Health thinks it has found a solution in Uber. MedStar's website now includes an Uber button to let patients book a ride to their appointment, reminding them about it as well.
A Peachy social media tool
- Have you heard about Peach? It's the new social media sensation that everyone is still a bit fuzzy on, much like a peach in fact. Ryan Ferguson explains what Peach is and where it came from (not from a can, put there by a man it turns out).
Kit Check's first 2016 funding
- Washington, D.C.-based Kit Check closed out 2015 as a DC Inno 50 on Fire winner and isn't slowing down in 2016. The hospital pharmacy tracking software and RFID hardware maker is kicking off the new year with a $2.7 million raise. I spoke to the company to find out what the team plans to do with the newest cash infusion.
What DC did at CES
- CES was a wild week full of big tech news, but what did the D.C. community do there? Chris Bing takes a look at what went on in Las Vegas last week from the D.C. tech perspective.
