by Leslie | Aug 4, 2011 | Other
If you trace the origins of the word patient, you will find two very sad Latin and Greek verbs meaning “to suffer.” Then there’s its homophone, patience, a quality almost certainly required by anyone dealing with today’s health care system. Also less than positive....
by Clare Wylie | Aug 3, 2011 | Other
“All the world’s a stage” wrote Shakespeare. The fourth week of our Cooper Design workshop was built around this very concept. Thanks to Cooperistas Faith and Jim, our teams broke out of their code and feature focuses for a few hours and stepped in...
by Leslie | Aug 2, 2011 | Other
The recent FDA regulatory chatter spurred a lot of internal conversation at Rock Health. What will it mean for our startups, and the digital health space in general? After doing some digging, we realized that there is very little consolidated data around the perceived...
by Leslie | Aug 1, 2011 | Other
Last night, we welcomed the always inspiring Eric Ries at our Thursday evening speaker series. He covered everything from gamification to cofounder angst to financing and, of course, his signature lean startup methodology. If you missed it, we have the full video...
by Halle Tecco | Jul 28, 2011 | Other
On June 9, 2011, sanofi-aventis U.S. announced the “sanofi-aventis U.S. Innovation Challenge: Data, Design, Diabetes” at the National Institute of Health’s Health Data Initiative Forum. The challenge, which launched on July 1, integrates open data with a...
by Clare Wylie | Jul 27, 2011 | Other
Last week’s workshop covered how to interview potential users, with the end goal of identifying their core values, needs and motivations. And diving into those deep pools of data can be daunting. This week, Cooperistas Suzie and Stefan provided the tools to stay...
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