What Digital Health Is (and Isn’t)

2013: Malay Gandhi. Updated 2017: Bill Evans. Digital health is not a new concept. Seth Frank, writing 16 years ago, penned “Digital Health Care—The convergence of health care and the Internet” in The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. Today,...

5 Ways Big Data Can Change Healthcare: The Latest from McKinsey

McKinsey & Company recently released The Big Data Revolution in Healthcare: Accelerating Value and Innovation, a white paper examining the impact of data and analytics on the healthcare sector.  Why big data? Fiscal concerns, perhaps more than any other factor,...

Rock Weekly: Digital health goes prime time

April 1, 2013 Digital health made prime time for the second week in a row with Eric Topol appearing on the Colbert Report showing off Rock Health’s own Cellscope.  This was on the heels of Leslie Saxon’s appearance on CNN with Sanjay Gupta to sing the...

2013 Digital Health Funding Update

No joke, digital health funding this quarter was up yet again.  With 37 deals valued at $365M, that’s 35% higher than Q1 of last year, suggesting that 2013 will be another record year for the digital health industry. Some of the largest and most notable deals so far...