Rock Weekly: Why big data didn’t detect Ebola
September 29, 2014
The CDC released some dire predictions for Ebola last week. And as it turns out, the good old World Health Organization beat out big data in detecting Ebola after all. Still have hope for big data? Us too. Join Rock Health and Cloudera for a Healthcare Data Happy Hour & Roundtable in NYC on the eve of Strata!
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Headlines
Why Big Health Insurance Is Pouring Money Into Startups
Fortune
Sixty Nine Percent Of Docs Want Patients To Use Tech To Assist Diagnoses
MobiHealthNews
The Huge Impact Of Expanding Medicaid
Vox
Kaiser Permanente’s Genetic Database Is Boon To Medical Research
Bloomberg
Hospitals Cut Costs By Getting Doctors To Stick To Guidelines
The Wall Street Journal
Tech Giants Move To Protect Wearables
Politico
23 Notable FDA Clearances For Digital Health Apps In 2014
MobiHealthNews
The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond
TechCrunch
Citizen Hackers Tinker With Medical Devices
The Wall Street Journal
California Goes Past HIPAA
MedCity News
The Woman With The Bionic Eye
The Atlantic
Rock Health In The News
To Gather Drug Data, A Health Startup Turns To Consumers
The New York Times
HealthKit Is Finally Live: Here’s How It (Really) Works
VentureBeat
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| TelaDoc | $50.3M | Cardinal Partners, HLM Venture Partners, KPCB, New Capital Partners, Trident Capital | MobiHealthNews |
| Jiff | $18.3M | Aeris Capital, Aberdare Ventures, Venrock | Forbes |
| InstaMed | $15M | Undisclosed | peHUB |
| Array Health | $13M | Noro-Moseley Partners, Vocap Investment Partners | GeekWire |
| WiserTogether | $9M | Martin Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund | MobiHealthNews |
| COTA | $3.7M | Horizon Healthcare Services, Med-Metrix | FinSMEs |
| Beyond Verbal | $3.3M | Winnovation, SingulariTeam | MobiHealthNews |
| Cohealo | $3.1M | Undisclosed | MedCity News |
| Spruce | $2M | KPCB, Baseline, Cowboy Ventures | TechCrunch |
| Sense.ly | $1.3M | Launchpad Digital Health, Eastlink Capital Management, angels | VentureBeat |
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