Rock Weekly: Healthcare is the future of everything important
December 22, 2014
In just three short years, healthcare has gone from being Google’s least favorite area to representing more than one-third of its 2014 investments, totaling more than $150M this year. With ambition ranging from genomics to regeneration to anti-aging, it might be time to consider that the tech giant best known for its omnipotent search box will be fueling the next era of medical innovation.
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Headlines
Where Employers Use Quality To Shape Healthcare
The Los Angeles Times
Do Patients Mind If Their Healthcare Data Is Shared?
Reuters
A Doctor In Your Pocket: Doctor On Demand Gets Smarter
Re/code
41 Percent Of Caregivers Use A Digital Health Device
MobiHealthNews
Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy On Digital Therapeutics (Video)
Bloomberg
Skin Cancer’s Worst Nightmare
VentureBeat
How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women
The Atlantic
Want A Life Coach? Lantern Lights The Way (Video)
The Wall Street Journal
The Cold Medicine Racket
The Atlantic
Geneticists Begin Tests Of An Internet For DNA
Technology Review
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| American Well | $81M | Undisclosed | Boston Business Journal |
| First Opinion | $6M | Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Monashees Capital | TechCrunch |
| Solo Health | $4.4M | WellPoint, Novartis, Dell, Coinstar | MedCity News |
| iFit | $3M | Cherubic Ventures, Yuan-jin Capital, Sino Strategy Group, Angels | TechCrunch |
| Lift | $1.1M | Spark Capital, Obvious Ventures | MobiHealthNews |
| Rise | $1M | Cowboy Ventures, Floodgate | MobiHealthNews |
| Talkspace | $1M | Metamorphic Ventures | TechCrunch |
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