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Rock Weekly

September 6th, 2011

Happy post-holiday weekend and welcome to installment #2 of healthy email goodness. This edition includes tasty tidbits from our blog, and news from the farthest reaches of the web. Off we go!

Headlines:

• Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, N.J., who actually seeks out the community’s sickest — and most expensive — patients (PBS)
• Wireless Medical Monitoring Might Untether Patients (NY Times)
• Verizon expands security offerings for EHRs, HIEs, eRx(Healthcare IT News)
• List of 200+ digital health startups (Rock Health)

Eric Ries on the Lean Health Startup Eric Ries talks about the lean digital health startup, and how it’s not as different as we may think… Watch the video here. Design Away Those Bad Habits Designing features that align and tap into long term user behaviors is one of the toughest pieces of building a product. Read more.