Digital health funding reached $4.2B in 2016, down 8% from 2015, representing a compound annual growth (CAGR) from 2011-2016 of 30%, according to the 2016 Year End Funding Report report from digital health venture firm Rock Health. 2016 The annual report reveals 2016 was a strong year for digital health, but it also served as a reality check for founders and investors due to the election and uncertainty around the future of the ACA.In comparison to StartUp Health's digital health funding
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12 Reasons Why Digital Health Has Reached the Tipping Point in 2016
Digital health finally reached a tipping point in 2016 as consumers adopted digital health tools at a record rate over the last 12 months, according to the latest report from digital health venture firm Rock Health. The second annual report, Digital Health Consumer Adoption written by Ashlee Adams, Mark Shankar and founder, Halle Tecco surveyed over 4,000 consumers nationally on the latest trends in consumer adoption of healthcare technology. These insights reveal consumer attitudes toward
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Recent Digital Health Hires and Departures
Halle Tecco Steps Down from Rock Health Rock Health’s Founder and Managing Director Halle Tecco announced that she is stepping down from the full-service digital health fund via Twitter on Wednesday. 1/ After nearly six years of helping build @Rock_Health, I’ve made the difficult decision to move on.— Halle Tecco (@halletecco) May 4, 2016Apple Taps Google X founder to Lead Healthcare ProjectsApple has tapped Yoky Matsuoka, a cofounder of Google's experimental Google X division and former VP of
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Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation
Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Massachusetts business leaders are teaming up to launch an initiative to create a digital health hub. With support from the City of Boston, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI), and MACP, the new digital health innovation hub will provide startups with coworking space, programming and industry network support. Programming through the hub will be managed and operated by
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3 Digital Health Market Revelations to Watch in 2016
No bubble bursting here, as digital health continues to smash market records. Rock Health’s Halle Tecco explains why the digital health market will continue to flourish in 2016.
In 2014, billions were poured into the digital health market, and the predictions for digital health’s growth in 2015 did not disappoint. In fact, when it comes to the charisma and cash flow of digital health, its cup runneth over. But can digital health maintain that kind of prospective prestige and promise as it
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Boston Children’s, Rock Health Partner To Develop Digital Health Tools for Pediatric Care
Boston Children's Hospital and full-service digital health venture fund Rock Health today announced a strategic partnership to develop digital health tools and devices to improve pediatric care. The announcement was made during Boston Children's Hospital's Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards.
Partnership Details
As part of the partnership, Rock Health will fund and support promising digital startup companies and Boston Children's will act as clinical advisor to help startups shape
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Rock Health: 18 Consumer Adoption Trends in Digital Health
This week, Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health released the findings from their national survey on the consumer adoption trends in digital health. The report, "Digital Health Consumer Adoption: 2015" produced by Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi with help from Kati Dahl surveyed 4,000 consumers on their attitudes attitudes towards data privacy and sharing within the healthcare ecosystem.
The report identifies six overarching categories of digital health that
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Tops $3.3B in Q3 2015
Digital health funding has exceed 2014's record breaking year reaching $3.3B representing 30% TTM growth, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. In a blog post, Rock Health reported that the average deal size is the largest to date at $15.8M, despite deal flow down 9% compared to 2014. Only 8 digital health companies made up over 50% of the quarter's total funding.
The report produced by Teresa Wang and Rita Rajan with help from Malay Gandhi
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Rock Health Expands to NYC, Announces 3 New Investments
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare is expanding to the East Coast with the opening of a brand new office in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of NYC. In conjunction with the new NYC office, Rock Health also announced it has added three new East Coast companies to its portfolio. These companies will join Rock Health's existing portfolio of East Companies: Aptible (NYC), Cardiio (Boston), Docphin (NYC), Kit Check (DC), Neumitra
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Rock Health’s Halle Tecco Talks Why Gender Diversity Matters in Healthcare
Are women workers valued in the healthcare? Not enough, apparently. Rock Health’s latest report: The State of Women in Healthcare points to some sobering, and perhaps, surprising statistics about women working in today’s healthcare industry.
The report, which surveyed more than 400 women across the healthcare sector (including entrepreneurs, investors, industry executives, and healthcare professionals), revealed that women make 80 percent of the personal health decisions for their families,
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