Unlike tech, dollars pour into digital health 💰

If you spent the first quarter of this year listening to chatter within the tech industry, you may have heard that the market is experiencing a correction (or downturn), valuations are crashing, and VCs are doling out dollars with more caution. While some of that may be true for the tech industry at large, digital health may be immune. Our data shows digital health funding experienced an uptick with 13% TTM growth and almost 50% YoY growth—with total dollars for the quarter reaching $981M. Get the scoop in our Q1 funding update. 

Headlines

Q1 Update: Unlike Tech, 2016 Digital Health Funding On Record Pace Again
Tweet | Rock Health

Newest Policyholders Under Health Law Are Sicker And Costlier To Insurers
Tweet | The New York Times

Mothers Of Addicts Turn To Online Networks To Fight Stigma, Sorrow
Tweet | The Wall Street Journal

Healthcare Outsider Hedge Fund ‘Quants’ Win Heart Diagnosis Challenge
Tweet | CNBC

On Innovation: The Tampon Of The Future
Tweet | The New York Times

Why Hospitals Are the Perfect Targets for Ransomware
Tweet | Wired

Let Patients Read Their Medical Records
Tweet | The New York Times

Rock Health in the News

Obamacare: The Gazillion-Dollar Startup Machine (Honor)
Tweet | Inc

Why A Rising Academic Physician Left Stanford For A Startup (Collective Health)
Tweet | Forbes

Power Of Health Data: How Anxiety Affects This Other Chronic Condition (Amino)
Tweet | Refinery29

Funding

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