Rock Weekly: “The FDA is no longer the primary authority on innovation”
San Francisco was rattled last week, and not just by the earthquake. At our packed Health Innovation Summit, Genentech CEO Ian Clark declared its intentions with digital health, the inventor of the Google contact lens dished about his move to Amazon, and Vivek Wadhwa proclaimed that the FDA is no longer the primary authority on innovation. It’s no surprise that Todd Park wants back in on the action in Silicon Valley, stepping down as US CTO—and bringing the White House with him.
Headlines
Apple’s Stock Soars In Anticipation Of Wearables
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Aetna Shutting Down CarePass By The End Of The Year
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Hackers Breach 4.5M Patients’ Data At Largest US Hospital Group
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Doctors Raise Concerns About HealthKit
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When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
NPR
14 Private Digital Health Companies Share Their 2013 Revenue
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How One Woman Deciphered Her Own Genetic Mutation
The Atlantic
Cell Phone Data May Predict Ebola Spread
Technology Review
How Illumina Is Creating Medicine’s Genetic Revolution
Forbes
Health Coverage Is Soaring. Healthcare Prices Are Not
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Rock Health In The News
CancerIQ Makes Genetic Testing More Accessible To Clinical Decision Makers
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These Doctors Make Office Calls, Or Video Ones
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Aptible Is A One-Stop Powerhouse Of Health Data Privacy Compliance
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Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Chunyu | $50M | BlueRun Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Dunan Holding Group, CICC | TechNode |
| Comprehend | $21M | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital | VentureBeat |
| Hello | $10.5M | Angels, crowdfunding | The Wall Street Journal |
| Healthsense | $10M | Mansa Capital, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Radius Ventures | VentureBeat |
| Rethink | $10M | Beringea, Arboretum Ventures | FinSMEs |
| Clinverse | $9M | Edison Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners | peHUB |
| Wearable Intelligence | $8M | Google Ventures, First Round, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, others | VentureBeat |
| Self Health Network | $5.6M | Undisclosed | VentureBeat |
| Madalogix | $5M | Coliseum Capital Management | MedCity News |
| uBiome | $4.5M | Andreessen Horowitz, Angels | TechCrunch |
| HealthPrize Technologies | $3M | Mansa Capital | peHUB |
| PokitDok | $1.4M | Undisclosed | MedCity News |
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