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  • January 7th, 2013

    Digital Health Funding In ’12: $1.4B Raised, Up 45% Y/Y; Qualcomm Most Prolific Of 179 Investors, Castlight Takes Largest Round

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    As CES 2013 gets underway, it finds the Quantified Self movement to be a far more crowded market than a year ago, but as Matt Burns pointed out recently, the market is still hungry for smarter devices and “plenty of room” remains for startups for startups to push the envelope with innovation and press beyond movement and weight.

    With digital health data proliferating, wearable health-tracking… → Read More

    December 11th, 2012

    NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online

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    Last December, Omada Health raised $800K in seed funding from a host of angel and venture investors, including NEA, Aberdare, Kapor Capital, TriplePoint Ventures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A graduate of Rock Health’s first batch, the startup started out on a mission to take on diabetes (and prediabetes) by leveraging the latest research, design, behavioral science and digital… → Read More

    November 4th, 2012

    Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems

    Rock Health Report on Digital Funding Q3

    Healthcare has long been a technology paradox. There have been few places further out on the cutting edge of technology than biotech and medical devices. In contrast, healthIT has been in a time warp (see Why It’s Good News HealthIT is So Bad). Nearly 20 years after the advent of the web, the dominant healthIT vendors have thrived on a business model and technology architecture that harkens back… → Read More

    October 15th, 2012

    New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups

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    Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, “an industry segment in their own right.” And while that industry segment has become more and more crowded, the family of accelerators focused exclusively on healthtech and digital health has remained small — in spite of huge opportunity.

    But for early-stage… → Read More

    June 25th, 2012

    Torrid Rate of Growth for Digital Health Funding

    Rock Health Report on Digital Health Funding

    After investments in digital health doubled from 2009 to 2011, the torrid pace of growth has continued in the first half of 2012. Rock Health’s founder Halle Tecco stated why they released a report at this time. “The impetus of this report was the notable growth in venture funding of digital health–so much so that we are seeing 65% more investments than the same time last year. As we strive to… → Read More