Live long and prosper

September 28, 2015

By 2050, 22% of all Americans will be over the age of 65—and the population needs functional technology to help them live better. One solution: digital health tools (likeHonor), which support them within a system that may soon crack.

The man who cracked the human genome (and just announced a $250 exome sequencing test) will be speaking at Rock Health Summit this week—along with dozens of other movers and shakers of digital health). Join the fun here.

Headlines

The Pitfalls Of Healthcare Companies’ Addiction To Big Data
Bloomberg

Why Cleveland Clinic Shares Its Outcomes Data With The World
Harvard Business Review

How Hospitalists Have Innovated US Healthcare
The Wall Street Journal

Listen To The Talk: Inside Dr. Eric Topol’s Modern Black Bag
KQED

Health Insurance Deductibles Outpacing Wage Increases, Study Finds
The New York Times

Apple Watch Helps Save Teen Athlete's Life
CBS News

Report: Errors In Diagnosis Are Common And Will Take Teamwork To Fix
NPR

How Genome Sequencing Creates Communities Around Rare Disorders
The Atlantic

New CRISPR Protein Slices Through Genomes, Patent Problems
MIT Technology Review

Text Messaging Patients Reduces Heart Attack, Stroke, Smoking
HealthcareITNews

Rock Health In The News

Four Things You Can Do With Your Phone That Will Improve Healthcare (CellScope)
MedCityNews

New Antidepressant Tracking App Sets Sights On Postpartum Depression (Iodine)
MobiHealthNews

Funding

 

Company	Amt	Investors	Source
Modernizing Medicine	$38M	Pentland Group, Summit Partners, Sands Capital Ventures	Miami Herald
Whoop	$12M	Two Sigma Ventures, Mousse Partners, Accomplice, Promus Ventures, Valley Oak Investments, NextView Ventures	MobiHealthNews
CliniCloud	$5M	Tencent, Ping An Ventures	Forbes
lifeIMAGE	$5M	Zaffre Investments	Boston Business Journal