Rock Weekly: The top digital health deals of Q1
Digital health is increasingly whetting venture appetites — with a record breaking $700M pouring into the space in the last quarter alone. Dive into our just-released Q1 funding review to get the details.
Elsewhere in the industry, the FDA announced it won’t expand it’s regulatory scope of mobile health, 1/3 of wearable users are ditching their devices after six months, and AI achieved 41.9% better diagnostic accuracy than trained physicians.
Headlines
A Miracle Health Device Crowdfunds $730K. One Problem: It Might Be Total Bullshit
PandoDaily
The Cofounder Of 23andMe’s Next Project: Mining Your Quantified Self
Fast Company
US To Let Public See How Medicare Pays Docs
Reuters
Most Of What Your Doctor Does, A Robot Can Do Better
Quartz
Half Of Californians Who Used Exchange May Drop Coverage
NPR
Smart Skin Patch Knows When You Need Your Meds
Nature
Healthcare Workers Are Less Healthy Than Others
The Atlantic
Why The Doctor’s Always Late
WBUR
Mayo Clinic Finds App Reduces Cardiac Readmissions By 40%
MobiHealthNews
The Hospital-Dependent Patient
The New York Times
IMS Health Raises $1.3B In 2014’s Second Biggest IPO
VentureBeat
Rock Health In The News
A Who’s Who Of Healthcare Seeds Mobile Care Plan Startup Wellframe With $1.5M
MedCity News
10 Startups Bringing Digital Health To Seniors
MedCity News
Forget Quantified Self, We Need A Quantified Us
Wired
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| bswift | $51M | Great Hill Partners | Chicago Business |
| hCentive | $35M | Undisclosed | VCCircle |
| Wellfount | $15M | Deerfield Management Co. | Yahoo Finance |
| Health Fidelity | $14M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| Personal Genome Diagnostics | $2.8M | Undisclosed | Reuters |
| Wellframe | $1.5M | Angels | Xconomy |
| Relatient | Undisclosed | Jim Sohr, Joe Storey | FinSMEs |
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