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The Rise Of The Health Startup? A Peek At The 13 Companies In Rock Health’s Inaugural Batch
On Friday, Rock Health, the startup accelerator for health-focused startups, hosted its Demo Day at UCSF Mission Bay, where the 13 startups in its latest class introduced their businesses to 250 attendees, among them investors from Accel, NEA, Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Benchmark, Kapor Capital, SV Angel, The Social+Capital Partnership, Founders Fund and more.
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12 Healthcare Startups To Watch
Crohnology is the next generation of a concept started by PatientsLikeMe. It is a social app for people who have poorly understood autoimmune diseases with terrible treatment options, such as Crohn's disease, colitis, and fibromyalgia. Its simple interface encourages relationships and information sharing, connects patients to each other, and gathers information for future research and clinical trials.
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RockHealth Demo Day shows off some cool health apps
Disruption in the health care industry is not going to come from health care providers; it will come from small, scrappy startups. RockHealth Demo Day was a chance to see some world-changing ideas on display. Selected from a pool of 350 applicants, the first 13 companies of startup accelerator RockHealth combine social media savvy with pervasive technology, such as smartphones, to improve the health of millions of people through simple behavior modifications.
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How Remicade Infusion Pow-Wows Are Empowering Patients
Sean Ahrens is one of Health 2.0′s fastest rising stars. At the age of 12, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, an incurable, inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. After having several devastating flare-ups, he went on a quest to do anything he could to treat the disease by experimenting with numerous alternative therapies and diets (including intentionally infecting himself with parasitic worms).
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Build something useful
Crohnology is a social health network for people with chronic medical conditions to share and learn what treatments work, meet others near them, and track and share their health. “When I was diagnosed, I went online & found forums. 1990s-looking forums. I’m a developer, so I built @Crohnology ” -@seanahrens
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