Medivo and RunKeeper raise $; Fred Wilson thinks about healthcare

It’s a great time for healthcare entrepreneurs.  Especially if you’re one of the five digital health startups who received $2M+ in funding this month: Vitals.com, Scanadu, Medivo, Runkeeper, and simplifyMD.  Check out our full list of venture funding in the space, and let us know when your team gets a term sheet!

Headlines:

• Medivo raises $7M series A to create a ZocDoc for lab work (SF Gate)
• VC and blogger Fred Wilson begins exploring healthcare  (A VC)
• Toyota creates healthcare robots (Electronics Weekly)
• RunKeeper raises $10M (VentureBeat)
• A steering wheel that monitors your health (ScienceDaily)
• More Patients Turn to the Internet To Raise Funds for Treatment (NY Times)
• U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy (lower than Chile and Greece) while it pays the MOST for health care (DailyMail)
• Why healthcare IT is harder than the rest (ComputerWorld)
• mHealth market in Asia to be $7 billion by 2017 (Reuters)
• Teaching scientists to become entrepreneurs (Wall Street Journal)

Rock Health in the news:

• SF’s RockHealth incubator helps startups (SF Gate)