Halle Tecco, a business-development intern at Apple Inc., couldn't
help but notice that health apps were well behind other apps such as
entertainment and education. They were not popular and not put to good
use. She recently launched a nonprofit and in June is launching
RockHealth, which is devoted to health care software. Mayo Clinic
Center for Innovation and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is
partnering with RockHealth and it has raised over $500,000 from
investors.

The rising popularity of smart phones allows many opportunities for
apps to help patients monitor health problems. Why shouldn't we be
able to have health access at our fingertips? It seems that there are
smartphone apps for almost anything you can dream of, it is time for
us to have access to reliable health information. There is the issue
of privacy and other federal regulations that would make it extremely
difficult and expensive process to approve an app that will treat or
diagnose and illness. Over 40 grant applications have come in to
RockHealth in the last month for $20,000 grant to develop an app. I
can really appreciate the efforts Tecco is putting forth to expand our
access to health care in a convenient way.

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