Third Rock Ventures gets its hands dirty with $516M for healthcare startups

Third Rock is a venture capital fund solely dedicated to health care companies. The firm's distinct hands-on approach first discovers breakthrough technology and then builds the teams to execute it.

With its data warehouse for hospitals, Health Catalyst pulls in $33M

HealthCatalyst is the latest health technology startup to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, which mandates that health providers and hospitals shift to to electronic records.

Digital health market soars as consumers take control of their bodies

A report from Rock Health reveals that investors are funneling more dollars into digital health companies as consumers, policy, and the health care industry evolve.

Modernizing Medicine gets $12M to push physicians into the digital age

Modernizing Medicine, the South Florida-based company known for its electronic medical record (EMR) application for the iPad, has raised $12 in funding.

QuantiaMD lands $12M for its doctors-only social network

QuantiaMD, the website and mobile app for doctors to brainstorm and collaborate on tricky cases, has raised $12 million in venture capital funding.

BetterDoctor, the ‘OpenTable for doctors’, launches nationwide (exclusive)

If you're feeling unwell, the last thing you need is the headache of tracking down a nearby specialist that can see you immediately.

IBM supercomputer helps wage war on the common cold

Medical and technological advancements of the recent decade have finally paved the way to cure one of the most malevolent diseases: the common cold.

Scientists in Australia are using IBM supercomputing technology to simulate the 3D motion of the human …

Life-science briefing: Thursday, March 6, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

France’s TxCell raises €11M for cell therapy (release)
Healthcare IT firm TriHealix takes in $7M (release)
Healthcare-software provider Anodyne Health acquires Piedmont Healthcare (release)
CEO, CFO resign at inhaled-drug biotech Topigen (release)

France’s TxCell raises €11M for cell 

The Health 2.0 glut, and how one startup adapts

The Health 2.0 movement, as I’ve noted before, makes some big claims about the Internet’s power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. Some of that is undoubtedly true, and there’s a fascinating amount …

Google Health is here — or is it?

(UPDATED: See below.)

Well, the WSJ says so in this somewhat breathless report that states Google will announce its long-awaited personal health-record service today.

My first thought was that the announcement was timed to get Google on the record …

Life sciences briefing: Monday, Feb. 25, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Microsoft launches $3M fund to support online health-improvement tools (release)
Clarus Ventures raises $660M life-sciences fund (release)
Iverson Genetics raises $1.1M for blood-clotting tests, seeks $9.3M more (VentureWire)
Upstart Ventures aims for $30M fund to seed Utah life-science

Life sciences briefing: Monday, Feb. 4, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

PEAK Surgical takes in $21M for electrosurgical tools (release)
CellGate acquired by Australian cancer biotech ProGen for $2.5M (release)
Traversa raises $2M for RNAi-delivery technologies (release)
RemitDATA, Web-based healthcare-service co., takes in $5.5M (bizjournals.com)
Spinal-implant maker Archus Orthopedics