Can there really be an Uber for health?
November 23, 2015
Last week, 27% of tracked deals were for on-demand health services—and Uber itself literally launched Uber for flu shots. With funding for on-demand companies growing nearly 3X faster than digital health, we asked, can there really be Uber for health?
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Headlines
Why There Is No Uber For Health
Tweet | Rock Health
UnitedHealth Warns Of ACA Marketplace Exit—But Will They Actually Leave?
Tweet | Kaiser Health News
Pfizer And Allergan To Merge, Creating The Largest Pharma Giant
Tweet | The New York Times
Doctors Call For Drug Advertising Ban In Position Reversal
Tweet | Bloomberg
Can Video Games Help Stroke Victims?
Tweet | The New Yorker
Computers Are Making Science Extremely Challenging For Scientists
Tweet | Quartz
Healthcare Law Forces Businesses To Consider Growth’s Costs
Tweet | The New York Times
Federal Privacy Law Lags Far Behind Personal Health Technologies
Tweet | The Washington Post
How This Teen Uses An iPhone To Manage His Diabetes
Tweet | KQED
Special Section: Wired Well
Tweet | The New York Times
Rock Health In The News
NJ Cities Among Highest C-Section Rates In US. What About Yours? (Amino)
Tweet | Vox
Evidation Teams With Ochsner To Study Digital Health Efficacy
Tweet | MobiHealthNews
Wildflower Health Seeks Broader Medicaid User Base With Expansion In TX, LA
Tweet | MedCity News
Funding
| Company | Amt | Investors | Source |
| Athos | $35M | Social Capital, MAS Holdings, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felix Capital, DMC, True Ventures | Re/code |
| ElMindA | $28M | Undisclosed | MedCity News |
| PresenceLearning | $25M | Catalyst Investors, Birchmere Ventures, Blue Heron Capital, Catamount Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners | San Jose Business Journal |
| MindCare Solutions | $12M | Undisclosed | The Wall Street Journal |
| PatientPing | $8M | Google Ventures, F-Prime Capital, First Round Capital, SV Angel | BostInno |
| TinyRx | $5M | 8 Partners, Google Ventures, StartX | TechCrunch |
| Skulpt | $4M | Nautilus Venture Partners, Caerus Venture Partners | New York Business Journal |
| TuringSense | $3M | Angel Plus, ChinaRock Capital, Ideosource, SV Tech Ventures, Zen Water Capital | MobiHealthNews |
| twoXAR | $3M | Andreessen Horowitz, CLI Ventures, StartX | GenomeWeb |
| Zipdrug | $2M | Collaborative Fund, Lux Capital, Montage, Metamorphic Ventures, MESA Ventures, BAM | Dow Jones |
| Pediaq | $1.2M | Angels | MobiHealthNews |
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