Brigham and Women's, Rock Health team on digital innovation

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is teaming up with investment fund company Rock Health to bring digital health innovations to the hospital.

The three-year-long partnership will start this summer and will consist of collaborations with professionals in digital health to create tools to transform care delivery, according to a Boston Business Journal article.

In addition, Lesley Solomon, executive director of the Brigham Innovation Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said the hospital hopes Rock Health might also look at investing in the its own technology.

“I’m excited,” she told the Journal. “For me, Rock Health is a thought leader in the digital space. They have demonstrated that they are committed to helping Brigham entrepreneurs tackle the biggest problems in healthcare.”

Some of the initiatives that will be worked on surround cloud technologies, apps and software platforms, and telemedicine, according to the article.

Innovation in the healthcare world has often been put on the back-burner, but that is starting to change as more startups and health organizations push money into creating new digital health tools.

Investors pumped a record $6.5 billion into digital health ventures during 2014, an increase of 125 percent from the 2013 level, according to StartUp Health’s annual report released in January.

To learn more:
– here’s the article

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Brigham and Women"s, Rock Health team on digital innovation