Q&A With HiSum Speaker Leah Sparks

by | Jul 25, 2013 | Other

This post is part of our ongoing series profiling speakers for our upcoming Health Innovation Summit. Leah Sparks is the co-Founder and CEO of Wildflower Health, building a mobile health engagement platform to improve healthcare quality and lower medical costs. She...

Q&A With HiSum Speaker Dr. Rumi Chunara

by | Jul 18, 2013 | Other

This post is part of our ongoing series profiling speakers for our upcoming Health Innovation Summit. Rumi Chunara, PhD, is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, with a background in building biological sensors. Her interests are in building and using novel...

Kit Check Raises $10.4M To Digitize Hospital Supply Chain

by | Jul 16, 2013 | Other

We are proud to announce that Rock Health portfolio company Kit Check has just closed $10.4M Series A (see full press release here). Based in Washington D.C., the co-founders spent five months with us in San Francisco for our fourth accelerator program, where they won...

Why Doctors Still Use Pagers

by | Jul 14, 2013 | Other

Holly May is a Consultant at Health Advances. Despite the wave of innovative clinical apps for smartphones, iPads, and even Google Glass, the medical profession is not known as a bastion of modern innovation. Case in point: physicians still carry pagers.  One recent...