Rock Health

I've known a few people go through this. One product was something that detected when someone hasn't moved in bed for a period of time. This can be used to prevent bedsores. They found the regulatory environment absolutely crippling. After banging their head against the wall too long, they eventually gave up. I'd say going with an experienced incubator/mentor/etc in this space would be a great idea. https://rockhealth.com/ is one good example. They can give you access to health care companies, networks, mentors, etc.

There's Rock Health in SF, although they don't really have an incubator anymore. https://rockhealth.com/

I would generally recommend against getting a legal cofounder, even in the medical world. They're not contributing nearly as much as the other cofounders in the beginning, especially when you're building a tech-focused startup. Make friends with a lawyer. Read up on everything legal you can. Pay your lawyer friend when you need lawyer advice and lawyer action. But don't give them not only full-time, but founder, level status unless they are truly a full-time founder. Plenty of others share their early-stage lawyer advice freely so startups don't need to get in this situation. Check out: * http://startuplawyer. * http://rockhealth.com/resources/startup-elements/hipaa-compliance/ * http://rockhealth.com/resources/startup-handbook/

There are a bunch of statups popping up in eHealth. Two new incubators have popped up as well http://rockhealth.com and http://www.blueprinthealth.org. Stanford graduate school of business are doing some interesting things in bringing new technology into medicine from an startup perspective. http://recoveryrecord.com came out of Stanford GSB - from an Aussie female phycologist who learnt to code.

Rock Health; http://rockhealth.com/ Is a new incubator which is modeled on YC, but is specifically focused on the healthcare startups. The healthcare market has a unique set of challenges and barriers to entry that can be more challenging than the consumer tech market. As such - it helps that an incubator is trying to promote the YC-esque model in this vertical. The application deadline was last friday, and interviews are happening soon. They give $20K grant (e.g. no equity) and a mentorship panel to push startups to further success.

Grand Rounds | Lead Front-End Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds[1] was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[2] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[3]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[4] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our mission. For this particular opening, we're looking for an experienced React Engineer to join our growing team. You'll leverage your skills in a fast pace environment to help us deliver the next generation of our mobile applications as well as be a key contributor in the standardization of front end components and application services. We're building on the modern ecosystem of JavaScript technologies. You'll be immersed with ReactJS, ReactNative, Redux, GraphQL, Jest, Yarn, and will have the autonomy to help shape the toolchain. The team you'll join is comprised of 3 other software engineers, a test engineer, product manager, designer, and a UX/UI researcher. We have clear business goals to achieve. The ideal candidate will have led in the development of a JavaScript application at scale. You'll mastered JavaScript long ago, knowing the pitfalls of asynchronous javascript, and know how to leverage modern standards to avoid them. You'll evangelize importance of encapsulation, separation of concerns and other best practices that lead to building…

Here is the announcement from Rock Health: https://rockhealth.com/fda-compliance-made-easy-welcome-enzyme/

CES la vie ;-) http://rockhealth.com/2014/01/rock-weekly-ces-la-vie

"We" referred to US healthcare spending [1], and the party with the right incentive for this problem is the payers: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance like Aetna, Blue Shield, United Healthcare, etc. While the payers have the incentive to reduce readmissions (saves them money, leading to lower insurance premiums for you), they don't usually have the access to do so -- they're not the one seeing the patient or prescribing medicine. The payers could, of course, try to change the way that THEY reimburse the hospital to align the incentives. For Medicare and Medicaid, that requires a law--which is why the Affordable Care Act is creating opportunities for new startups as it rolls out. For private insurance, I think they'd like to change reimbursement, but they have relatively little market power compared to healthcare providers: http://rockhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Kocher-et-al-Overcomi… [1] Completely different set of incentives (and thus problems) in other healthcare systems.

We're a full-service seed fund. Our roots were as an accelerator, but over time, we have realized that we continue to support our portfolio companies long after they "finish" at Rock Health. Our equity investment model is very similar to the YC/Start Fund relationship. KPCB, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Mayo Clinic fund the companies we select with a $100,000 convertible note, at the same terms of an existing/pending seed round, or on flexible terms up to an uncapped note. We're different from YC in the sense that Rock Health itself takes no equity in the companies. We try to be extremely entrepreneur-friendly, and ultimately, the convertible note is entirely optional. For companies that don't want the note, we write non-dilutive grants up to $20,000. In terms of whether we help our companies get funding (or not), our companies have raised more than $100M[1] from investors including Collaborative Fund, Felicis, First Round, Floodgate, Founders Collective, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, NEA, The Social+Capital Partnership, SV Angel, True Ventures, and USVP, just to name a few (for context, our first cohort of companies finished at Rock Health in November 2011). [1]http://rockhealth.com/about/annual-report/

> the sad truth is that medical industry doesn't welcome software disruptions This is a message that really needs to stop being regurgitated around the technology start-up space. The medical industry DOES welcome software disruptions. The past two years have been the two biggest years in healthcare software disruption, in terms of VC dollars invested in that sector[0], the number of accelerators that have accepted healthcare related start ups (YC has now invested in a several) and the rise of accelerators focused on healthcare (e.g. Rock Health, Health Box) that have graduated over 100 'small and agile' teams that have established product-market fit, and raised institutional funding. Healthcare is a space that does require a significant understanding of industry-specific knowledge (third party payment models and regulations are examples), but I feel that many other industries that are being disrupted have similar barriers to entry. In my experience, most developers ignore the medical industry, citing similar complaints as yours, but neglect to mention the incredible growth that has been demonstrated in that industry for a while now... [0] http://rockhealth.com/resources/rock-reports/digital-health-funding/