Ro acquires Modern Fertility: Segment-specific M&A another front in the platform wars

Ro acquiring Modern Fertility represents the opportunity created when segment-specific services for a given population or need—in this case fertility—combine with wide-population focused virtual care platforms. This deal won’t be the last transaction where telehealth and navigation platforms snap up startups focused on segment-specific verticals.

The future of virtual medicine: what the CMS MDPP ruling means for patients and digital health

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not yet reimburse for telehealth delivery of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program. What does this mean now and going forward?

The shifting center of care

How health care legislation has—and continues to—shift the center of care into the home for digital health patient management solutions.

Rock Weekly: Unintended consequences of digital health

March 2, 2015 We’re (obviously) over the moon about the growing popularity of digital health—but unintended ...

How laws and policies are shaping telemedicine

The global telemedicine market will reach $36.3B by 2020, and this attractive market is catching the eye of investors and healthcare providers so that one day patients can receive world-class care from anywhere. However, the future of telemedicine is dependent on reimbursement and regulatory policies both at the federal and state level. Here's how, and why reform is shaping the telemedicine market.

Rock Weekly: Are wearables getting creepy?

January 12, 2015 The deluge of CES wearable and health device debuts has come to a close, and discussions were ...

Rock Weekly: Healthcare is the future of everything important

December 22, 2014 In just three short years, healthcare has gone from being Google's least favorite area to ...

Rock Weekly: The only two reasons to give up equity

December 1, 2014 Over turkey dinners last week, people discussed a mysterious trend where so-called accelerators ...

Rock Weekly: These 58 companies have a message for the FDA

October 13, 2014 Last week, 58 companies spanning tech and health pushed Congress to finally codify some ...

Rock Weekly: Why millennials should be scared for their health

September 22, 2014 Let’s take a minute to remind ourselves why we’re all here: healthcare is messed up (and we're ...

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