Rock Weekly: Wearables: we’re doing it wrong.
June 29, 2015
SCOTUS stole the show last week with two huge rulings affecting healthcare’s future. King v. Burwell went the way of Obamacare, with subsidies remaining intact, while the long-awaited marriage equality ruling promises to alter the health insurance landscape.
On the wearables front, Google wants to change clinical research with its new wristband. Health execs see positive ROI from patient-generated data but is the technology accurate enough to turn the devices into digital medical tools?
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Headlines
Wearables: Are We Doing It Wrong?
Technology Review
The FDA Doesn’t Want To Regulate Wearables—Device Makers Want It That Way
The Verge
The Employer-Led Healthcare Revolution
Harvard Business Review
Consumers Demand Price Transparency, But At What Cost?
Modern Healthcare
Check Your Health Records: You May Be Able To Avoid Trouble
The Washington Post
What Our Tweets And Google Searches Say About Our Health
BuzzFeed
Eighty-Four Percent Of Health Execs Agree: Train Machines As Much As People
FierceHealthIT
Fitbit CEO Says He ‘Thinks Differently’ About Apple
Re/code
Medicare Slow To Adopt Telemedicine Due To Cost Concerns
Kaiser Health News
Small Study: Patient Portal Fails To Improve Education, Activation
MobiHealthNews
These Mini Robots Could Form An Injection Gun In Your Bloodstream
Popular Science
Rock Health In The News
Wildflower Health Secures $5M To Expand Platform For Maternity Health
MedCity News
Wellframe Partners With Thresholds To Empower Veterans To Self-Manage Care
MarketWatch
Meet A Startup Building An Insurance Business Around A Connected Toothbrush
Fortune
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| MDLive | $50M | Bedford Funding | MobiHealthNews |
| Mousera | $20M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| Cureatr | $13M | Deerfield Investments, Cerner Capital, Windham Ventures, Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, JMI Services, Partnership Fund for New York City | MedCity News |
| Spreemo | $13M | Pamplona Capital Management | Dow Jones |
| Heal | $5M | Slow Ventures, March Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital | MobiHealthNews |
| Wildflower Health | $5M | Easton Capital, Hatteras Venture Partners, Cambia Health Solutions, HealthTechCapital | VentureBeat |
| Lyra Health | $3.1M | Castlight Health | MobiHealthNews |
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