Rock Weekly: The Top 6 SXSW Sessions for Health Geeks
March 4, 2013
It’s a huge week for us — we’ll be at LAUNCH, FOGM, and off to SXSW, and before that we’ll be hosting two of our own events —Meetup of the Minds, and Demos at the Apple Store.
Think you can’t catch us? Sign up for Ohours — we’ll be holding them next week in San Francisco, Menlo Park, and San Diego.
We’re accepting applications for our accelerator program for just 2 more weeks! For the details and application, please visit www.rockhealth.com/apply.
Headlines
New App Turns Your Smartphone Into a Mobile Urine Lab
Wired
Baby Monitor of the Future? MIT Scientists Create Program That Makes a Person’s Heartbeat Visible
The Atlantic
4 Ways Mobile Health Could Save $400B in Health Costs
GigaOm
The Quest to Build a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton by 2014
Wired
The 16-Year-Old Who Created A Cheap, Accurate Cancer Sensor Is Now Building A Tricorder
FastCompany
Nintendo Wii Helped Budding Surgeons Move To Head Of The Class
NPR
Rock Health in the News
Startup Accelerator Rock Health and AngelList Announce Partnership
TechCrunch
Greenhouse Effect: How Accelerators Are Seeding Digital Health Innovation
CHCF
40 Under 40: Rock Health CEO Halle Tecco
San Francisco Business Times
Funding & Acquisitions
Health Catalyst Raises A Total of $41M To Solve Healthcare’s Big Data Problem
TechCrunch
RWJF Awards $1.9M Grant to PatientsLikeMe To Develop Patient Centered Outcome Measures
RWJF
MetaMed Raises $500K to Provide Patients With An On-Demand Medical Research Team
The Next Web
Practice Fusion Buys 100Plus to Power Patient Tools With Clinical Data
GigaOm