July 24, 2012
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In This Update:
Patients, Caregivers, Collaboration, and Other Noteworthy Headlines

Healthcare IT News: VC Funds HIT to the Tune of $293M in Q2
Medicine X Stanford: Prescriptions for Your Health Startup
BostInno: Patients Are Important But Health Startups Can’t Forget Caregivers
MarketWatch: Verizon Identifies 10 Most Promising Ways to Use Health IT to Enhance Patient Care, Reduce Costs
Healthcare IT News: Blue Chip Patient Survey Reveals Bright Future for mHealth in Clinical Trial Recruitment
MobiHealthNews: Mobile Health Pervades Recent Top Healthcare Rankings
Healthcare Finance News: 5 Ways Telemedicine Is Reducing the Cost of Healthcare
MedCity News: Smart Startups Succeed by Focusing on Internal and External Collaboration
GigaOM: Better Medicine, Brought to You by Big Data  


Last Call to Apply to Participate in the StartUp Health Pavilion at the mHealth Summit Presented by mHIMSS

The StartUp ‘Mobile’ Health Pavilion brought to you by StartUp Health and sponsored by Intel returns to the 2012 mHealth Summit presented by mHIMSS as a launch showcase for 20 of today’s most innovative seed and early stage startups that are impacting mobile health. Attendees will have a chance to engage directly with the these innovators, entrepreneurs, and founders and get LIVE demos of their mHealth applications as well as see how the use of wireless technology can improve healthcare delivery and patient care. If you are a startup interested in presenting your company and being a part of the StartUp Health Pavilion please submit your application here. The application deadline is July 31st.


Join StartUp Health at Health 2.0 Local Chicago

StartUp Health is proud to be a keynote speaker at the first Health 2.0 Local conference, Catalyzing Health Technology Innovation: Opportunities to Breakthroughs, to be held in Chicago on September 28-29. StartUp Health will be part of the “Dueling Keynote” where StartUp Health founder Unity Stoakes will present with Blueprint Health’s Brad Weinberg. Get more details on the pitch contest, lightning talks, after party, and more. We hope to meet you there!


Meet StartUp Health This Week at the World Congress mHealth Innovation Exchange Conference

World Congress is teaming up with ONC to bring you a national mHealth innovation exchange event which brings together mHealth entrepreneurs and healthcare IT leaders from across the U.S. in presentation, match-making, and commercial collaboration sessions to accelerate the pace of adoption of innovative mHealth solutions in the medical marketplace. The StartUp Health team will be at the event if you want to meet up in person. StartUp Health founder Unity Stoakes will be interviewing keynote speaker Aman Bhandari from the White House in the AM and then be featured on the roundtable discussion panel, mHealth Innovation and the Emerging & Critical Role of the Innovation Accelerator Organization, in the afternoon. The inaugural one-day World Congress mHealth Innovation Exchange Conference is Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at the Colonnade Hotel in Back Bay of Boston, MA, the largest medical marketplace in the U.S.  StartUp Health will tweet from the event so follow us @startuphealth.


Upcoming Health Events & Challenges

World Congress Health Innovation Exchange Conference
July 25 (Boston, MA)

World Congress 4th Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth
July 25-27, 2012 (Boston, MA)

HealthHackingNYC: Pitch Potluck and Demo-lition Derby
July 26, 2012 (New York, NY)

Aging 2.0 July ‘12: New York
July 26, 2012 (New York, NY)

Palo Alto Medical Foundation linkAges Successful Aging Challenge
Deadline for submissions: July 30, 2012

ROI Realities: How to Create World-class Marketing on a Limited Budget
Get a discount from StartUp Health
July 31, 2012 (New York, NY)


SVCWireless: Mobile Technology in Healthcare Meetup
August 1, 2012 (Palo Alto, CA)

Health Innovation Summit
August 28, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)

Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge
Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2012

Blue Button Mash Up Challenge
Deadline for submissions: September 6, 2012

TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
September 8-12, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)

Quantified Self
September 15-16, 2012 (Palo Alto, CA)

Startup Weekend Hartford Health & Wellness
September 21-23, 2012 (Hartford, CT)

Diabetes Innovation 2012
September 23-25, 2012 (Arlington, VA)

Health 2.0 Local Chicago
September 28-29, 2012 (Chicago, IL)

Health Data Platform Simple Sign-On Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2012

Health Data Platform Metadata Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2012

Health 2.0 Fall Conference
October 7-10, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)

DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase
October 10, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)

Wired Health Conference
October 15-16, 2012 (New York, NY)

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


Rolling Admissions to StartUp Health Academy - Apply Today to be Considered for Future Class

StartUp Health is still in the process of reviewing Healthcare Transformer applications for our next class.  Due to the overwhelming number of applications we have received, we have extended the time frame to make sure we can review all of the applicants. If you haven’t heard from us we are still in the process of reviewing every application thoroughly. Additionally, we have additional classes which will be announced later this year.  As always, feel free to reach out to us if you have any updates since you submitted your original application. If you have not yet applied, you can still apply today. We have a rolling admissions process; even if you aren’t invited to our next class, you will be considered for future classes. We want to hear all about you, your company, and how you plan to disrupt healthcare!  Be sure to read our FAQs about the program.


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