Digital health incubator Rock Health is investing in eight new startups and teaming up with three new corporate entities – Blue Shield of California, Deloitte and global healthcare firm Abbott.
The new startups being incubated span the healthcare spectrum, from HIPAA compliance to life sciences and biotech. Among them: – Accountable, an online platform that seeks to guide companies step-by-step through the HIPAA compliance process; – Acumen, a digital video platform that enables physicians to evaluate and manage neurological disorders such as autism; – Aptible, another company, launched last week, seeking to provide efficient HIPAA compliance services for developers; – Benchling, a cloud-based data management platform for life sciences R&D; – Telepharm, a web and mobile app that enables pharmacists and patients to connect anytime. Telepharm also recently raised a series A $2.5 million led by medical venture capitalist John Poppajohn and Iowa state Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter; – and Welkin Health, whose coaches offer daily support to type 2 disabilities patients through smartphone apps.
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