Rock Weekly: Your car dealer knows more about you than your doctor
August 26th, 2013
Can you believe there are only 193 days until SXSW 2014? If you’re like us and itching to get back to Austin, read up on our panels, cast your vote, and then remember to take your weekly medicine of digital health headlines.
Headlines
Your Car Dealer Knows More About You Than Your Doctor
SearchCIO
Reinventing Life Science Startups: Medical Devices And Digital Health
Forbes
A Deluge Of Data In Healthcare Has Little Meaning If Providers Lack Skills To Use It
MedCityNews
It Takes 7 Years And $108M To Take A VC-Backed Healthcare Company Public
CBInsights
FDA Finds Big Unmet Need In Medical Devices For Women
MedCityNews
More Hospitals Use Social Media To Gather Feedback From Patients’ Families
The Wall Street Journal
Why Doesn’t Medical Care Get Better When Doctors Rest More?
The New Yorker
Wearables In The Workplace: A Historical Perspective On The Quantified Self
Harvard Business Review
Digital Health And The Pharmacy: A Prescription For Success
Forbes
AliveCor iECG Now Being Tested By Receptionists In Doctor’s Offices
MobiHealthNews
Rock Health in the News
Stabilized Spoon Helps Parkinson’s Sufferers Feed Themselves
Gizmodo
7 Steps To A Winning Startup Pitch
VentureBeat
Funding
| Name | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Applied Proteomics | $28M | Genting Berhad, Domain Associates, Vulcan Capital | MedCityNews |
| Modernizing Medicine | $14M | Summit Partners | VentureBeat |
| BioDirection | $3.95M | Undisclosed | MarketWatch |
| RivalHealth | $3M | Fulcrum Equity Partners | Triangle Business Journal |
| InVivoLink | $1.85M | Undisclosed | Nashville Business Journal |
| Digheon Healthcare | $1.05M | Undisclosed | SEC |
| Proventix Systems | $950K | Undisclosed | SEC |
| iCheck Health Connection | $750K | InterWest Partners | MobiHealthNews |