Health Reading List | October 02, 2015 |
Startup Highlight: TedCas
Pretty nifty portfolio company at Startup Health, making image viewing in the OR far, far more efficient. Instead of scrubbing out, viewing an image, and scrubbing back in, surgeons will be able to view and manipulate images without breaking scrub.
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| | KQED Science Couldn't shell out the cash to attend Rock Health's annual summit? No worries, Christina Farr has your back with a live blog of the event here. | | According to Rock Health, 2015 is shaping up to exceed the explosive 2014 CY for digital health funding, which is a pretty scary thought.
Check out more detail from Rock Health's report linked above. You can also check out Startup Health's quarterly update, here.
| | FastCo With the advent of AR/VR and new paradigms in education generally, medical education is in a pretty unique position to get a face lift over the next 10 years. FastCo has a great overview of Dell Medical School at UT and the different ways they are looking to recreate the education for future health care providers. | | WSJ This week in "mHealth Mania" WSJ looks at the growth in mental health mobile apps... and the incredible lack of clinical evidence supporting 99% of these apps. | | XConomy Interview with Canaan's latest health care focused Partner, Nina Kjellson on her move from InterWest to Canaan, advice for entrepreneurs, the health care IT and pharma landscape, and the challenges of digital health investments. | | Boston Globe Electroceuticals: hype or the future? See some great reporting from Boston Globe here on the promise, and limitations of using electricity to fix everything from heart disease to chronic pain. | | Wired This week on CRISPR news: Cas9 is already being replaced by an EVEN more effective way to edit genes. I can't even keep up anymore. Get more information from Wired on the advance in gene editing, here. | | Forbes David Shaywitz breaksdown his advice based on the discussions he heard at Stanford's MedX conference last weekend. Enjoy! | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy. | | |
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