by Mollie McDowell | Jul 14, 2014 | Rock Weekly
July 14, 2014 Word is out that Obamacare is working. The newly insured are pretty darn satisfied with their new plans and the uninsured rate just plummeted to the lowest levels in recorded history. While everyone else danced around the maypole, Speaker Boehner slapped...
by Mollie McDowell | Jul 7, 2014 | Rock Weekly
July 7, 2014 Last week Google co-founders told Vinod Khosla that they’re just not that into health—though their multiple endeavors say otherwise. Their friends down the peninsula are knee-deep in health, however. Facebook’s science experiment on user emotions is...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 30, 2014 | Rock Weekly
June 30, 2014 No big surprises lurked in Google’s announcement of their recently leaked Google Fit platform last week. However, they failed to mention the word ‘health’ once, focusing instead on basic fitness metrics—perhaps still nursing the wounds of their former...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 16, 2014 | Rock Weekly
June 16, 2014 Another week, another tech giant’s digital health platform. It looks like Google is planning a comeback in digital health, while Apple feels it’s their moral imperative to move into the space. The feds are looking to cross over too, luring young...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 9, 2014 | Rock Weekly
June 9, 2014 As we digested and recovered from the buzz of HealthKit, the giant tech darling learned it may still need to win the trust of the health community, and the next round of Apple health rumors (re: wearable) surfaced. After over a year of research on that...
by Mollie McDowell | May 27, 2014 | Rock Weekly
May 27, 2014 Last week, Vinod Khosla reiterated his idea that doctors can’t compete with machines (doctors beg to differ). Until we start calculating medical computer’s performance, Yelping doctors is on the rise. One in four patients now reads physician reviews...
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