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Rock Weekly: “The FDA is no longer the primary authority on innovation”
San Francisco was rattled last week, and not just by the earthquake. At our packed Health Innovation Summit, Genentech CEO Ian Clark declared its intentions with digital health, the inventor of the...
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Rock Weekly: Inside Apple’s big announcement next week
September 2, 2014 Apple has everyone excited over its suspected unveiling of a health device next week—a supposed $400 wearable that likely won’t ship till 2015. No rush: Gartner says mobile health...
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Rock Weekly: Apple announces its comprehensive health and fitness device
The veil was finally lifted on the two most top-secret (and divergent) projects in digital health. Today, Apple revealed its long-rumored smart watch, the Apple Watch, “a comprehensive health and...
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Rock Weekly: Google acquires Rock Health company in biotech push
September 15, 2014 The US may have entered a new, “pay less, get more” era of healthcare—but don’t start the party just yet. The Apple Watch didn’t wow the health industry, and the US seems to be...
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Rock Weekly: Why millennials should be scared for their health
September 22, 2014 Let’s take a minute to remind ourselves why we’re all here: healthcare is messed up (and we’re going to fix it). As if burned-out doctors, and outrageous healthcare admin costs...
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Rock Weekly: Why big data didn’t detect Ebola
September 29, 2014 The CDC released some dire predictions for Ebola last week. And as it turns out, the good old World Health Organization beat out big data in detecting Ebola after all. Still have...
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Rock Weekly: The venture darling of digital health
October 6, 2014 Last week we released our latest funding update, reporting that venture funding in digital health has reached $3B in 2014—smashing the total for this time last year by 2X. Big data and...
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Rock Weekly: These 58 companies have a message for the FDA
October 13, 2014 Last week, 58 companies spanning tech and health pushed Congress to finally codify some previously-recommended digital health regulations. Meanwhile, HealthKit gained its first EHR...
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October 20, 2014 80M Americans suffer from mental health disorders, though only 10% seek professional care. So we’re excited to announce that our portfolio company Lantern just launched to bring...
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Rock Weekly: Can we use data to personalize health care?
October 27, 2014 Let’s take stock of our progress toward futuristic healthcare. DIY cyborgs? Check. On-demand flu shots? Check. Personalized pills? Eh, not yet. So how can we use new and existing...
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Rock Weekly: Get a job.
November 17, 2014 We’re thrilled to announce our latest investment, Iodine, which gives people insight into their health—starting with the medicine cabinet. Speaking of badass startups, you should...
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Rock Weekly: Digital health investments are soaring
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...
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Rock Weekly: The only two reasons to give up equity
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...
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Rock Weekly: Data is just a shadow of human experience
“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...
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Rock Weekly: Why tech companies are flocking to healthcare
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...
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Rock Weekly: Healthcare is the future of everything important
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...
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Rock Weekly: Is digital health dangerous?
December 29, 2014 While everyone gathered around the yule log last week, the headlines countered with some spooky stories about healthcare technology—on everything from hospital hacks to scammy apps...
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Rock Weekly: 2014 funding obliterates records
January 5, 2015 If it wasn’t obvious which technology trend was most exciting in 2014, let’s clarify that digital health took the cake. Over $4.1B filled the coffers of 258 companies, nearly topping...
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Rock Weekly: Are wearables getting creepy?
January 12, 2015 The deluge of CES wearable and health device debuts has come to a close, and discussions were apparently “much more grounded” this year. Marc Benioff said wearable data is “heading to...
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Rock Weekly: Where’s the exit?
January 26, 2015 While digital health may be lagging on the public market, conversations about the industry dominated Inside the Beltway last week. POTUS kicked everything off by announcing the...
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