Rock Weekly: Who really owns your medical records?

April 20, 2015 Who owns patient records? Patients do—in only one state. From grandpa’s prescription history to your whole town’s genetic code—your data fetches dollars, and locking the records up affects the delivery of care. It would be nice to know who...

Money pours into health insurance startups

April 13, 2015 What do patient data, EHRs, and health insurance as we know it have in common? They’re all in serious need of an overhaul and dominated the digital health Twitterverse last week. The feds called out EHR vendors for not playing nice in the sandbox when...

Rock Weekly: Apple:breadth as Google:depth

March 16, 2015 In less than 24 hours, Apple’s new ResearchKit did what would take 50 medical centers a whole year to do in traditional trials, albeit with some bias toward the rich and healthy. The platform is the latest example of the shifting center of care—but...