Rock Weekly: Prescriptions for your startup
July 23, 2012
What’s the prescription for an exciting summer? A healthy dose of digital health, we think. So whether its through our summer Skillshare series, Health Innovation Summit, or this week’s headlines, it’s time to start your digital health regimen.*
*Side effects may include burning questions, itching interests & excess health knowledge.
Health Innovation Summit: New speakers announced!
Health Innovation Summit is rapidly approaching, and we are excited to announce that Dr. Leslie Saxon of the USC Center for Body Computing will be joining our incredible lineup of speakers, including Vinod Khosla, Dave McClure, Atul Butte, and Jane McGonigal. Register Yo’Self
Headlines
In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism
New York Times
Gene Data to Hit Milestone
Nature
Angry Birds Meets Bioinformatics
ScienceDaily
Controlling a Computer with Your Eyes
Technology Review
Health Care Hackers
e-patients.net
Better Medicine Brought to You by Big Data
GigaOm
Fight Against Obesity is Major Investment Trend
Chicago Tribune
Healthcare Stocks Will Climb on Obamacare
Bloomberg
Rock Health in the News
Your CEO May Be A Man, But Your Healthcare Customer is a Woman
Venture Valkyrie
Prescriptions for Your Health Startup
Stanford Medicine X
Now Your Smartphone Can Be Used To Diagnose Ear Infections At Home
Forbes
Startup Spotlight: A Tradition of Disruption
Qualcomm Spark
Funding & Acquisitions
SAIC Plans to Acquire maxIT Healthcare for $473 Million
Wall Street Journal
Sermo, After Raising $40M+, Bought by WorldOne
Xconomy
WellFX Lands $5M Series A
Xconomy
Mobile Health Developer Azumio Acquires SkyHealth
TechCrunch
- Total M&A transaction volume in 1st Half 2012 increased by 28% over 2nd half of 2011. BerkeryNoyes
- VC funding of digital health is up 73% year-over-year. Rock Report