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Causes: Business & Industry
Mission: Rock health's sole purpose is educating, teaching, instructing, training and coaching healthcare entrepreneurs for the purpose of improving and developing the entrepreneurs' capabilities, skills and knowledge base. To meet this educational purpose, rock health is engaged in a number of educational activities that are available to the general public, the primary activity of which is hosting the business incubator program.
Programs: Business incubator: programming and grants for healthcare: in keepingwith its mission to support innovation at the intersection ofhealthcare and technology, rock health supported over 40 companiesin 2016, logging an average of 10 hours of strategic support percompany and hundreds of introductions to our expert network ofindustry professionals and healthcare thought leaders. Amongstour entire portfolio, over $230m in growth funding was raised in2016, creating hundreds of new jobs. Our loyal and growingcommunity of experts and alumni continue to generously offerstrategic guidance and expertise to rock health startups.
public educational events: rock health hosted multiple events in 2016,serving 1,190 people. We hosted over 100 diverse thought leaders asteachers, speakers, and discussion leaders. The main themes coveredincluded: healthcare innovation, health data, business, healthcarereform, and entrepreneurship. The events ranged from smallintimate classes with 20-30 attendees to a 200+ healthcare diversitysummit.
research rock health offers an extensive array of diverse onlineeducational resources. The core of these resources is our rockreports, which are based on primary and secondary researchand provide an in-depth look at trends in health technology. Four rock reports published in 2016 received over 35,595 viewsover that year, on topics including digital biomarkers, genomics,consumer adoption of digital health, and funding in digitalhealth. Our video series on youtube highlights the best digitalhealth curriculum in a video lecture series, and was viewed47,000 times in2016. We also carefully curate a jobs page, blog(with over 26 posts in 2016), and other resources which arefree to the public on our website.