by Mollie McDowell | Dec 22, 2014 | Rock Weekly
December 22, 2014 In just three short years, healthcare has gone from being Google’s least favorite area to representing more than one-third of its 2014 investments, totaling more than $150M this year. With ambition ranging from genomics to regeneration to...
by rockhealth_fuzzc0 | Dec 15, 2014 | Rock Weekly
In the last decade, healthcare innovation has gone from “the entrepreneurial equivalent of Siberia” to…well, Silicon Valley. As healthcare finds new entrants from tech, consumers expect them to be closely watched over by the government. Surgeons on the other...
by Mollie McDowell | Dec 9, 2014 | Rock Weekly
“Data is just a shadow of human experience. We still need to connect the dots,” Smart Patients founder and Rock Health entrepreneur Roni Zeiger argued last week. Luckily, healthcare may finally be ready for big data—just so long as the algorithms don’t ruin your life....
by Mollie McDowell | Dec 1, 2014 | Rock Weekly
December 1, 2014 Over turkey dinners last week, people discussed a mysterious trend where so-called accelerators take startup equity (up to 10%!) without giving a dollar. What’s our thought on the subject? Companies should give equity for one of two things—work or...
by Mollie McDowell | Nov 24, 2014 | Rock Weekly
November 24, 2014 So HHS flubbed the math on health exchange enrollment, erroneously inflating it with 380K dental plans. Real score? 6.7M enrollees. Tired of the kerfuffle? Here’s your open enrollment tip: use Stride Health, an insurance-shopping-entrepreneur’s BFF....
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