Rock Weekly: CES La Vie
January 13, 2014
Digital health was the shining star of CES, with 40% more dedicated floor space for everything from UV-sensing jewelery, to jump shot-correcting basketballs. See our favorites. Want more good news? Growth in health spending is slower than GDP growth for the first time since 1997. Why do we care? Mo’ money, mo’ problems.
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Headlines
Health Spending As A Share Of The Economy Is Shrinking
The Washington Post
Fitness Apps Are The Stars At CES
The Boston Globe
Google X Meets With FDA Pointing Toward New Device
Bloomberg
More Flaws In Digitizing Patient Files
The New York Times
Doximity’s Social Network For Doctors Has More Members Than AMA
VentureBeat
The Business World Will Make Wearables Mainstream
Fast Company
When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients
The New York Times
Maryland Is Upending Healthcare Spending
The Washington Post
Health Exchange Enrollees Struggle To Prove Coverage
The New York Times
Funding
Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
MedHOK | $77.5M | Bain Capital Ventures, Spectrum Equity | Reuters |
WellDoc | $20M | Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Windham Venture Partners | Forbes |
Zephyr Health | $15M | Kleiner Perkins, Jafco Ventures | TechCrunch |
PlanSource | $12M | Lemhi Ventures, Timucuan Asset Management | FinSMEs |
Glooko | $7M | Samsung Venture Investment Company, Lifeforce Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership | TechCrunch |
Omicia | $6.8M | Artis Ventures, Buchanan Investments, Bay City Capital | VentureBeat |
Noom | $4.1M | Undisclosed | SEC |
Lumiata | $4M | Khosla Ventures | GigaOm |
MyOwnMed | $1.3M | Undisclosed | MobiHealth News |