Rock Weekly: Do health apps need government oversight?
August 4, 2014
Since you’re a Rock Weekly subscriber, you’re likely all too familiar with that five letter acronym, HIPAA. Today we’re announcing two new portfolio companies that make HIPAA compliance easy-peezy. Learn more about Accountable and Aptible here.
Also, today we are proud to announce that portfolio company Kurbo Health picked up $5.8M and launched its mobile app to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic.
Headlines
FDA Wants To Deregulate Sizable Part Of Digital Health
MobiHealthNews
Do Health Apps Need Government Oversight?
Vice
In Ten Years, Everyone Will Be Mapped At Birth
Time
The World’s Richest Doc Buys World’s Most Powerful DNA Sequencer
Forbes
23andMe Gets NIH Grant For Whole Human DNA Sequence
VentureBeat
One In Five Simply Don’t Want Health Insurance
Kaiser Health News
These Are The Next Five Digital Health IPOs
VentureBeat
Here’s What Happened When I Tried A Children’s Weight-Loss App
Time
The Problem With ‘Pay For Performance’ In Medicine
The New York Times
Gene Research And Silicon Valley-Style Computing Are Starting To Merge
Technology Review
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Proteus Digital Health | $52M | Undisclosed | VentureBeat |
| Emulate | $12M | NanoDimension, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hansjorg Wyss | Xconomy |
| Kurbo Health | $5.8M | Signia, Data Collective, Promus and Bessemer, Susan Wojcicki | Time |
| PolyRemedy | $5.1M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| EyeNetra | $4M | Khosla Ventures, Khosla Impact | MedCity News |
| OBMedical | $2.1M | New World Angels, Angel Investment Management Group, Atlanta Technology Angels, others | peHUB |
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