August 16, 2011
The Rock Weekly, August 15th
We took the creative energy from our new anatomically-inspired artwork, courtesy the talented Christina Gualy, into our Tuesday design session with Cooper, where the teams finally got to roll up their sleeves and put a few interfaces together.
Thursday it was business time, as Moss Adams laid out accounting basics for startups, including rule #1: always be organizing. Throughout the week our teams met with John Wilbanks of Creative Commons and the Kauffman Foundation, Dr. Eric Rose from Microsoft, Abhas Gutpta of MDV and Sonny Jandial from P&G.
Rock Health in the News:
- Rock Health member startup Nudge wins a grant from Adobe’s Design Ignites Change contest
- EHRs and digital health innovation attracting capital
Events and Opportunities:
- The first ever Startup Weekend: Health is coming to Palo Alto the weekend of September 10th, and right now, you can attend at a discount using this link. Members of the Rock Health team and several mentors and advisors will be there judging and hanging out.
- The USC Center for Body Computing invited us to participate in their Slam contest in September. Winner gets a $5k prize. Details here.
- Rock Health startup Genomera is doing a sleep study. Sign up here.
Brian candy:
- Future iPhones might include heart rate monitors (Care Practice)
- An attractive alternative to smoking (Med Crunch)
- EES packs circuits into temporary tattoos, makes medical diagnostics fashionable (Engadget)
- iPads are changing the lives of people with disabilities (Mashable)
- What the heck is patient experience anyway? (Rock Health blog)
- New drug could cure nearly any viral infection (MIT News)