Rock Weekly: Do you hear that?
January 27, 2014
Do you hear that? It’s the echo from last week when over $110M rained down in six huge funding deals and the bell rung for the first digital health IPO of the year. Elsewhere on the financial front, Audax Health is on the brink of going all the way with UnitedHealthcare — stay tuned. Also last week, LabDoor answered the burning question, “What’s in your fish oil supplements?” for the New York Times, and this 15 year old nailed just what patient-centered care really means.
Headlines
The First Online Flu Predictor
Fast Company
Uninsured Rate Drops As Healthcare Law Rolls Out
The Washington Post
JP Morgan Health Conference Changing With The Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Third Wave Of Computing: Wearables
Wired
Newly Insured Americans Don’t Understand Basic Healthcare Terms
The Atlantic
The #1 Doctor In The World Is Dr. Wikipedia
Quartz
Electronic-Embedded Makeup Controls Devices Through Blinking
PSFK
EHR Adoption Grows 21% In One Year
Government HealthIT
51 Startup Post-Mortems
CB Insights
Rock Health In The News
What’s In Your Fish Oil Supplements?
The New York Times
The Pulse Of Digital Health
CNBC
How Beam Launched A Hardware Startup With $500K
TechRepublic
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Kareo | $29.5M | Greenspring Associates, OpenView Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank | TechCrunch |
| MDLive | $23.6M | Heritage Group, Sutter Health, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors | MobiHealthNews |
| TigerText | $21M | ShastaVentures, OrbiMed, Easton Capital, others | MedCityNews |
| Zenefits | $15M | Andreessen Horowitz, Maverick, Venrock | TechCrunch |
| Knome | $13M | Current investors | FinSMEs |
| Fitmob | $9.75M | Mayfield Fund, Silicon Valley Bank | VentureBeat |
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