Rock Weekly: The plot at Apple thickens
February 10, 2014
Over the course of last week, the plot over Apple’s entrée into digital health thickened as job postings for sleep and physiology experts went live. Hailing from the future, ‘digital prophet’ Shingy decreed, “Devices in 2014 will be about quantification, not quantified self.”
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Vinod Khosla, Joshua Kushner of Oscar Insurance, and TechCrunch’s Leena Rao at the closing keynote of CEO Summit last week, where Khosla declared, “If I wanted to be a doctor today I’d go to math school not med school.”
Headlines
Why Do Americans Spend So Much On Pharmaceuticals?
PBS
Adidas Sues Under Armour Over Mobile Fitness Patents
Bloomberg
Pentagon Looking For ‘Big Mechanism’ To Mine Health Data
USA TODAY
The Olympic Gold Medal Goes To The Quantified Self
Quartz
How Amazon Forced CVS To Stop Selling Cigarettes
Wired
The Feds To Draft Medical Device Interoperability Standards
FierceHealthIT
How Apple’s iWatch Can Mainstream The Open Source Movement
Fast Company
Reining In Healthcare Costs Key To Trimming Deficit
NPR
Rock Health In The News
Lose Weight With An App And A Camera
CNN
Seven Ways Entrepreneurs Could Change the World This Year
Inc
Apple Picks Best New Health Apps Of 2014
MobiHealthNews
Health Technology Brings Care Plans Alive
O’Reilly
The Wellness Game
Medical Marketing & Media
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Etransmedia | $8.3M | Praesidian Capital, Kember Insurance | BioPortfolio |
| OnShift | $7M | HLM Venture Partners | Cleveland Business |
| Conversion Sound | $5.63M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| Noom | $2.9M | RRE Ventures, Translink Capital, Recruit Strategic Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, others | MobiHealthNews |
| YouDocs Beauty | $1.7M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| Klinify | $604K | Jungle Ventures | TechCrunch |
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