by Mollie McDowell | Jan 12, 2015 | Rock Weekly
January 12, 2015 The deluge of CES wearable and health device debuts has come to a close, and discussions were apparently “much more grounded” this year. Marc Benioff said wearable data is “heading to creepy” and the FTC chairwoman expressed concern about privacy in...
by Mollie McDowell | Jan 5, 2015 | Rock Weekly
January 5, 2015 If it wasn’t obvious which technology trend was most exciting in 2014, let’s clarify that digital health took the cake. Over $4.1B filled the coffers of 258 companies, nearly topping the total of the prior three years combined. Get...
by Mollie McDowell | Dec 29, 2014 | Rock Weekly
December 29, 2014 While everyone gathered around the yule log last week, the headlines countered with some spooky stories about healthcare technology—on everything from hospital hacks to scammy apps and worrisome wearables. Then news broke about bionic pancreases and...
by Mollie McDowell | Dec 22, 2014 | Rock Weekly
December 22, 2014 In just three short years, healthcare has gone from being Google’s least favorite area to representing more than one-third of its 2014 investments, totaling more than $150M this year. With ambition ranging from genomics to regeneration to...
by rockhealth_fuzzc0 | Dec 15, 2014 | Rock Weekly
In the last decade, healthcare innovation has gone from “the entrepreneurial equivalent of Siberia” to…well, Silicon Valley. As healthcare finds new entrants from tech, consumers expect them to be closely watched over by the government. Surgeons on the other...
by Mollie McDowell | Dec 9, 2014 | Rock Weekly
“Data is just a shadow of human experience. We still need to connect the dots,” Smart Patients founder and Rock Health entrepreneur Roni Zeiger argued last week. Luckily, healthcare may finally be ready for big data—just so long as the algorithms don’t ruin your life....
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