by Mollie McDowell | Apr 7, 2014 | Rock Weekly
Digital health is increasingly whetting venture appetites — with a record breaking $700M pouring into the space in the last quarter alone. Dive into our just-released Q1 funding review to get the details. Elsewhere in the industry, the FDA announced it won’t...
by Mollie McDowell | Mar 31, 2014 | Rock Weekly
Last week, we learned that Facebook is vying for a spot in the telemedicine space. Their advantage? They already know everything about you. Government, the other know-it-all, may just reach its original 7M insured goal, though Maryland just gave up on its health...
by Mollie McDowell | Mar 24, 2014 | Rock Weekly
March 24, 2014 Last week at TED, Larry Page called for patient health records to become a public utility, despite the impossibility of maintaining privacy. Apple’s rumored might be a good place to begin mining data. Chatter around the technology giant’s...
by Mollie McDowell | Mar 17, 2014 | Rock Weekly
March 17, 2014 Last week, Castlight’s stock soared 149% in its first day of trading while co-founder and US CTO Todd Park continued working on HealthCare.gov. POTUS did his part too by appearing on Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and generating record...
by Mollie McDowell | Mar 10, 2014 | Rock Weekly
March 10, 2014 Digital health took SXSW by storm (literally) as Anne Wojcicki laid out her vision for the future of preventative medicine, ThriveOn took home the gold at the SXSW Accelerator, Bill Nye declared that technology, science, and startups are intimately...
by Mollie McDowell | Mar 3, 2014 | Rock Weekly
March 3, 2014 The showdown over mobile medical app regulation heated up last week as Congress introduced a bill to strip the FDA of digital health oversight. Meanwhile, 42% of docs won’t prescribe apps due to lack of regulation. We’re on the hunt for the boldest...
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