June 26, 2013

Open Letter to HealthTech VCs

Healthcare Transformer Dave Chase (CEO of Avado, a StartUp Health company) outlines an opportunity this week in Forbes: HealthTech VCs: Invest Here If You Want to Fix Healthcare.

Featured Healthcare Transformer

CarePlanners

CarePlanners

Platform that enables caregivers to better navigate the healthcare system
RAISING
Series A

CUSTOMERS
Caregivers & patients
RNs, social workers, & healthcare advocates

VALUE
Provides careplanners with a set of structured tools that will help them be successful

TRACTION
30+ Careplanners on network
100+ members

TEAM
Alan Blaustein (fmr OpenSky.com & About.com)
Dr. Nancy Snyderman (Chief Medical Editor, NBC News)


Today Is Pilot Day

PILOTPILOT Health Tech NYC, a New York City Economic Development Corporation initiative, in collaboration with Health 2.0, Blueprint Health, and StartUp Health, provides funding of up to $100,000 each to 10 or more innovative projects that pilot new technologies in New York City healthcare settings. Join us today at 4PM for the inaugural 'Pilot Day' where the 10 winners will present their ambitious pilot projects with NYC health care providers. Come support their initiatives, ask questions, and meet providers from all over NYC! Winners will be tweeted and posted on the StartUp Health blog today!

Join Us at the Games for Health Conference This Week

Games for Health ConferenceCome spend a couple days with us in Boston at the Games for Health Conference this week with a bevy of experts, developers, and clinicians working at the edge of technology, behavior change, and fun. Don’t miss Friday’s keynote by by StartUp Health Co-founder Steven Krein – The Reimagination of Healthcare: The Creative Destruction of the healthcare industry is underway and the conditions are ripe for an epic decade of disruption caused by Healthcare Transformers building games for health. Register today!

Health Care Innovation Awards Deadline Next Week

CMS.govThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will spend up to $1 billion in round two of the Health Care Innovation Awards. They will evaluate and award projects from across the country that test new payment and service delivery models that will deliver better care and lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees. If you wish to apply, non-binding letters of intent to apply must be submitted by June 28. Get all the details here.

MedCity CONVERGE Is Just Two Weeks Away

CONVERGE, on July 9-10 to Philadelphia, offers a unique opportunity to hear vital insights and engage with thought leaders from all healthcare sectors. StartUp Health’s own Steven Krein will be speaking at the event and two Healthcare Transformers, AdhereTech and IntelligentM, will be featured in the Startup Showcase. Come join us and save 50% off the onsite ticket price using our discount code!

StartUp Health Fellow Spotlight: Anne Kim

Anne KimAnne is passionate about helping Healthcare Transformers create a new era of healthcare innovations and solutions. Get to know Anne better with her answers to our five spotlight questions.

StartUp Health Insights

Top Digital Health Funding This Week
Startup Amount Investors
ZocDoc $55M Undisclosed (Debt)
PatientsLikeMe $7M CommerceNetOmidyar NetworkCollaborative Seed and Growth PartnersInvus
Banyan Biomarkers $6M Undisclosed
FitStar Labs $4M Trinity VenturesGoogle Ventures
X2 Biosystems $3.27M Undisclosed
Seamless Medical $2M Undisclosed
Evermind $1.8M Omidyar NetworkSolidus FundTriStar Technology Ventures
Exo Labs $1.5M Undisclosed
PokitDok $1.5M Undisclosed
Pathfinder Therapeutics $1.2M Undisclosed
Sway Medical $750K OKAngel Sidecar Fund, Angels
See many more in StartUp Health Insights, the most comprehensive funding database tracking over $5 billion in digital health and health tech deals.

Upcoming Health Events & Challenges

PILOT Health Tech NYC: PILOT Day
June 26, 2013
New York, NY

Digital Health Summit, NYC
June 26, 2013
New York, NY

HIMSS NYS — Western NY HIT Symposium
June 26, 2013
Rochester, NY

Games for Health Conference
June 26-28, 2013
Boston, MA

Mobile Apps Showdown
June 26-27, 2013
New York, NY

Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two
Letters of Intent to Apply due:
June 28, 2013

MedCity Converge
July 9-10, 2013
Philadelphia, PA

Healthcare Unbound
July 11-12, 2013
Denver, CO

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
July 13-18, 2013
Boston, MA

Crain’s Health Care Symposium
July 17, 2013
New York, NY

Future of Healthcare Communications Summit
July 24, 2013
New York, NY

Blue Button Co-Design Challenge
Deadline for submissions:
August 5, 2013

For even more, visit our listings of Events & Challenges.

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Free Access to StartUp Health Insights

Visit StartUp Health Insights for the most comprehensive funding database tracking over $5 billion in digital health and health tech deals.

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