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Rock Health
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Rock Health is the company blog at rockhealth.com, writing about startups, health and business. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Rock Health's curriculum for health startups now available to anyone”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rock Health as a seed and early-stage healthcare fund and former incubator, and cite its startup lists, events and announcements. Comments don't judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-19
- Rock Health's curriculum for health startups now available to anyone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-21
- Rock Health: Interactive Health Incubator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-12
- The status of the biggest API in healthcare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-11
- Report: Consumer adoption of digital health2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
What Hacker News says?
CES la vie ;-) http://rockhealth.com/2014/01/rock-weekly-ces-la-vie
Comment linking /2014/01/rock-weekly-ces-la-vie
on “ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text”Submitted The most important API you’ve never heard of as a story · 161 points
HN discussionGrand Rounds | Sr. Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[1] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[2]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[3] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our…
Comment linking /announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital..
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Ideas We'd Like to Fund as a story · 157 points
HN discussionGrand Rounds | Sr. Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[1] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[2]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[3] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our…
Comment linking /announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital-health/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund as a story · 75 points
HN discussionGrand Rounds | Sr. Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[1] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[2]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[3] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our…
Comment linking /announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital-health/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Update as a story · 14 points
HN discussion"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…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Kocher-et-al-Overcoming-the-Pricing-Power-of-Hospitals.pdf
on “Presumption of stupidity”Submitted FDA speaks with Enzyme (YC S17) re: the current state of SW regulation as a story · 11 points
HN discussionGrand Rounds | Sr. Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds was recently named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[1] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[2]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[3] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Ideas We'd Like to Fund as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGrand 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…
Comment linking /announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital-health/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted Why Doctors Still Use Pagers (2013) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGrand Rounds | Sr. Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA USA | https://www.grandrounds.com Grand Rounds was just named Best Digital Health Company to Work For[1] by Rock Health, and is currently recognized by Glassdoor's as the #2 Best Places to Work[2]. We are also represented on Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies[3] for the second year in a row and are looking for talented Engineers to join our mission. You'…
Comment linking /announcing-the-2017-top-50-in-digital-health/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Submitted Building relationships with stakeholders: A founder’s experience [video] as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere 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.
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on “Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)”Submitted The status of the biggest API in healthcare as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe'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…
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on “Ideas We'd Like to Fund”Submitted Incubators are not just puppy mills gambling with people's dreams as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> 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 h…
Comment linking /resources/rock-reports/digital-health-funding/
on “Thinking of starting a Health IT company? Here are top three industry challenges”Submitted Why there is no Uber for healthcare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI 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 , le…
Comment linking /resources/startup-handbook/
on “I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare”Submitted Report: Consumer adoption of digital health as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is the announcement from Rock Health: https://rockhealth.com/fda-compliance-made-easy-welcome-enzy...
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on “Launch HN: Enzyme (YC S17) – Automating FDA Compliance and Approval”Submitted Top datasets for health hackers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's Rock Health in SF, although they don't really have an incubator anymore. https://rockhealth.com/
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on “Ask HN: Are there any healthcare software incubators?”Submitted Despite slowdown fears–money still pouring into health tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'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://rockheal…
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on “Ask HN: Seeking advice for the next steps of a health care side project”Submitted The billion dollar digital health unicorn as a story · 2 points
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