Rock Weekly: If money talks, you should probably be reading this
January 28th, 2012
It’s the last week of January, and 2013 looks to be the most exciting year yet in the world of digital health. With UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Humedica, and 13 funded digital health companies so far, we’re already seeing things heat up.
Rock Health startup LabDoor launched last week – check out coverage inWired, GigaOm, and Forbes.
Headlines
New HIPAA Rules Fortify Patient Privacy
MedPage Today
FDA Clears Welch Allyn’s iPhone-enabled Opthalmoscope
MobiHealthNews
Misfit’s Shine Raised $846K on Indiegogo; New Product Expected This Fall
MobiHealthNews
Study Finds Tweeting, Retweeting May Help You #Lose Weight
Wired
‘Robodocs’? ‘Tricorders’? How Telemedicine Will Shape the Future of Health
GigaOm
Surprise! We Don’t Know if Half Our Medical Treatments Work
Washington Post
Why DNA Will Someday Replace the Hard Drive
Technology Review
Eric Topol on Rock Center with Brian Williams [VIDEO]
NBC
Funding & Acquisitions
NantHealth Raises $31M for Portfolio of mHealth Products
MobiHealthNews
Kareo Raises $20.5M for Cloud-based Medical Office Software
PE Hub
FlatIron Health Raises $8M for Intelligence Platform for Cancer Care
TechCrunch
eHealth Technologies Raises $6M for Medical Record and Image Retrieval
MedCity News
Bam Labs Raises $4M to Put Smart Sensors in Your Mattress
SEC
Syapse Raises $3M for Cloud-based Semantic Data Platform for Genomics
Rock Health Blog
Stat Health Services Raises $3M for Emergency Room eHealth
SEC
Boston’s Humedica Acquired by UnitedHealth Group; Deal Valued in ‘Hundreds of Millions’
Boston Business Journal