Rock Weekly: Do you hear that? It’s the sound of $1B.

May 20, 2013

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the government making it rain with $1B in health innovation grants for innovators like you. Learn more and apply this summer for your share of free money. We’ll be at HealthBeat this week if you want to talk about your application.

Headlines

Why VC’s Shortchange Healthcare IT—And How to Change It
Techonomy

Data Analytics Crucial for Population Health and ACOs
Institute of Health Technology Transformation

Pills Tracked From Doctor to Patient to Aid Drug Marketing 
New York Times

Hospitals Promote Screenings That Experts Say Many People Do Not Need
Washington Post

56M Sports Fitness Monitors to Shop in 2017
MobiHealthNews

Seeking Clues to Heart Disease in DNA of an Unlucky Family
New York Times

Rock Health In The News

VCs Talk Accelerator Bubbles, Accelerator Success
Wall Street Journal

Launching The Internet of Everything, One Startup at a Time
Techonomy

New Generation of Wireless Monitoring Technologies Promise to Transform Healthcare
Crains

Entrepreneurs Say the FDA is Killing Medical Innovation
VentureBeat

Funding

Name Amt Investors Source
HealthEngine $10.4M Telstra and Seven West Media ZDNet
LabStyle Innovations $10M Undisclosed Press Release
AbilTo $3M .406 Ventures FinSMEs
Zephyr $2.3M 3M New Ventures MobiHealthNews
Ringadoc $700K Siemer Ventures and Telegraph Hill Group VentureBeat

 

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