Health Reading List | December 18, 2015 |
Startup Highlight: Intarcia Therapeutics
Drug adherence is a huge issue for almost every stake holder in the healthcare system - payers, providers, drug companies. Everyone has a stake in making sure patients appropriately take the therapeutics they are prescribed. Intarcia has advanced implantable drug delivery technology that has some real promise to deliver non-uniform drug amounts over a given amount of time.
As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. | Opportunity Is Knocking  Braintree recently teamed up with Vision Mobile, the world's largest developer survey, to look into untapped opportunities for mobile developers and the Internet of Things. They found that the upside of e-commerce is even bigger than you might think. Read more about the findings here. | | It is now the time of the year when every company comes out with prospectives for 2016 and retrospectives for 2015. Here is Deloitte's look forward to what they think will impact the global LS market. Most interesting trend I see is companion diagnostics and how pharma companies are becoming solution companies and not just drug companies. | | Startup Health and Rock Health both come out with quarterly reviews for the state of investments in digital health. Startup Health goes into a bit more detail as they track more than just >2$ in investments. Too much juicy data to pick one item, so dig in! | | Here is Rock Health's report... also full of tons o' yummy data. | | Total click bait, but it's always great to see consumer companies doing well by health. Especially when you have something as simple as swiping right.
Read more about Tinder's partnership in one of Christina Farr's first FastCo articles.
| | Bryan Roberts (of Venrock) discusses his early investment in Illumina, the outlook in health care, and his theories when it comes to investing in the space. | | And here is PwC's outlook for health care in 2016. Not sure I agree that merger mania will continue in 2016, but definitely agree that behavioral health and cyber security will be continue to be a huge focus.
You can download the full report here as well: http://pwchealth.com/cgi-local/hregister.cgi/reg/pwc-hri-top-healthcare-issues-2016.pdf
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