In This Update:
Health Tech Checkup, NYC Health Tech Grants, and Other Noteworthy News
GigaOm
Health tech’s monthly checkup: investment nearly tripled in January (infographic)
HIT Consultant
Digital Health Funding Tops $320 Million in the First Month of 2013
Xconomy
Swarm of Applicants Vying for New York City’s Health Tech Grants
MedCity News
6 innovations with the potential to make doctors’ offices more efficient
Modern Healthcare
Telehealth reduced readmissions, hospital days: report
Government Health IT
ONC sees e-health as foundation for engagement
Politico
Feds’ ‘E-Health’ initiative reaches out to patients
Learn to Navigate the NY Health Tech Landscape with StartUp Health
Join StartUp Health’s Steven Krein on Tuesday, February 19 from 6:30 to 8:30pm EDT for a NY Social Media Week panel:
Navigating the Funding and Resources of Health Tech Innovation in New York. Meet and learn from StartUp Health, New York Digital Health Accelerator, Health 2.0, Partnership for New York City Fund, Blueprint Health, and NY eHealth as they discuss the wide variety of financial, mentorship, and infrastructure support resources available in NY to enable promising eHealth startup companies.
Learn more & register here!
How Behavior and Patients Can Fix Healthcare with Dr. Jay Parkinson, Greatist, and StartUp Health
Attend a special NY Social Media Week session on Thursday, February 21 from noon to 1:30pm EDT, moderated by GigaOm’s Ki Mae Heussner and featuring Dr. Jay Parkinson of Sherpaa, Derek Flanzraich of Greatist, and Unity Stoakes of StartUp Health. Discussion topic:
How Behavior and Patients Can Fix Healthcare. New technologies allowing for quantified-self and the wider reach of social media have presented new options for health, but how are these best applied and do they really work for the wide array of patients that exist? Sharing more personal data with the institutions, experts, and with other people via social technology is enlightening or even fun, but will it allow for innovations shaping the medicine of tomorrow? At the root of these discussions, it seems clear that the patient will be the one to ultimately lead change and improvements to the cost, access, and quality of healthcare.
Learn more & register here!
Free eHealth Webcast About Medicine's Next Frontier
Last month, StartUp Health participated in an eHealth panel at the Biotech Showcase in San Francisco, along with Jack Young from Qualcomm, Ben Chodor from Happtique, and Eric Elenko from PureTech Ventures.
Check out the free webcast now!
Healthcare Transformer Spotlight
Alan Blaustein’s passion for healthcare solutions began with his thymic cancer diagnosis in 2005. Frustrated with the limited resources available to effectively navigate the healthcare system, he leaned on his longtime friend Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC’s Chief Medical Editor, for support. After Alan’s recovery, the friends realized there was a need for a service to help patients and caregivers make better decisions amid the healthcare system’s many complexities. In June 2012, they launched CarePlanners (@careplanners) to provide patient and caregiver navigation, coordination and organization solutions through a nationwide team of healthcare experts (e.g. – registered nurses, social workers, Medicare experts, insurance and billing specialists, and other healthcare advocates) and a sophisticated set of online decision-making support tools. Check out our 10 questions with Alan Blaustein!
NY eHealth Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge
Are you a creative designer or developer who wants to change the world? Start with New York. 20 million New Yorkers are anxious to have access to their health records – the
New York eHealth Collaborative is building the infrastructure and platform and they want you to create an incredible user experience! In partnership with Health 2.0, they’ve launched the
Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge to invite designers and developers to submit prototypes for a secure portal that will present patients with their individual PHR while educating them about health data privacy rights. Developers have a chance to win $25,000 in prizes, connect with healthcare leaders and investors, and help 20 million New Yorkers be more informed about their health. To learn more about this unique initiative and view details on how to submit a prototype, please visit the
Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge.
These Healthcare Transformers are Hiring!
Want to help transform healthcare? Check out a few openings we’ve recently heard about and join one of these amazing teams…or pass along the opportunities to friends or colleagues!
If your company is looking to hire the best and brightest, let us know and we will feature your career listing here with a link to the description in a future newsletter.
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Venture Summit | West
February 13, 2013 (Mountain View, CA)
Precision Genomic Medicine: How Close Are We?
February 13, 2013 (New York, NY)
StartUp Weekend Health
February 15, 2013 (Philadelphia, PA)
Social Media Week
February 18-22, 2013
21st Annual National HIPAA Summit
February 19-21, 2013 (Washington, DC)
PILOT Health Tech NYC: Matchmaking Sessions
February 20-21, 2013 (New York, NY)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Games To Generate Data Challenge
Deadline for submissions: February 22, 2013
Hackovate Health Finale
February 26, 2013 (Kansas City, MO)
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Events &
Challenges.
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