Rock Weekly: Understanding Obamacare & summer funding frenzy
July 2nd, 2012
It was an energizing week for Rock Health and all of us in healthcare: still aglow from last week’s fundiing report, we were thrilled to announce a partnership with GE as part of their healthymagination initiative, a $6 billion global commitment to provide better health for more people by lowering cost, improving quality and increasing access to health technology.
And no one could overlook all eyes and voices on this week’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Don’t know where to begin? Check out our curated coverage below.
Headlines
For Health Sector: Forward, March
Wall Street Journal
Something Wicked This Way Comes
New Yorker
What The Supreme Court’s ACA Ruling Will Mean For Providers
Health Affairs
Startups Bring Capital, Innovation to Online Health Services
Bloomberg
‘Biohackers’ mining their own bodies’ data
SF Chronicle
HealthTap Adds Micro-Transactions For Remote Doctor Chat
Forbes
Funding and M&A
Practice Fusion Nabs $34M
Wall Street Journal
Carena Lands $14M
GeekWire
GymPact Grabs $850K
Wall Street Journal
Quotable
“What I love (in a crazy love sort of way) about this industry is that there’s this inherent skepticism (bordering on institutional arrogance) from many of the experts in the field, who defend an industry that by any measure or comparison is backwards and unsustainable. Feels to me like an industry ripe for innovation.”
– Rick Valencia, left in a comment on MobiHealthNews