In This Update:
Apps Keeping You Healthy, Business is Booming, mHealth in Developing Countries, and Other Noteworthy Headlines
Today Show:
Apps and Sites That Can Help Keep You Healthy
Huffington Post:
Samer Hamadeh, Zeel Co-Founder, Looks To Alternative Medicine For A Solution
Healthcare IT News:
Business is Booming in the World of HIT Start Ups
The New York Times:
Coming Next - Doctors Prescribing Apps to Patients
iHealthBeat:
Industry Striving To Ensure Safety, Quality of Mobile Health Apps
The Guardian:
The Benefit of Apps in Healthcare
mHealth Africa:
High Expectations for mHealth in Developing Countries
MobiHealthNews:
Survey: Physicians Trust Mobile Content More Than Nurses Do
Wired:
Mobile Companies Connect With Almost $4B in VC Funding
VentureBeat:
The Question Every Healthcare IT Startup Must Answer
MedCity News:
You Might Be a Healthcare Startup Mentor If…(5 Must-have Qualities of a Good Mentor)
Orca Health Decide:
The mHealth Data Disconnect
It’s deadline week! This Friday is a popular deadline for voting, ticket discounts, challenges, and proposal submissions. Here are just a few you don’t want to miss:
StartUp Health in SXSW PanelPicker - Last Call to Vote
Voting on the SXSW PanelPicker closes Friday! Each year we have seen healthcare innovation become a much bigger part of SXSW and next year we expect the trend to continue...Show your support by voting for
StartUp Health & Wired Present: Beg, Borrow, Steal! So many industries have been turned upside-down and inside-out with new technological innovation. From e-commerce to social media, technology has completely changed the way we live our daily lives. Innovation has changed every facet of the way we do things - from banking on your phone to buying groceries online - but one industry has remained staunchly untouched by technological innovation: health. The state of global health and America's outdated healthcare system must innovate to survive - but we don't need to start from scratch; rather, we don't have time to start from scratch. Innovations created for gaming, social media, e-commerce, and other industries can be adapted to health tech and must be adapted quickly if we're going to disrupt healthcare, change every day lives, and save our loved ones. Taking examples from Kinect, Transform Health, and others, we'll examine how and why to apply current innovations to disrupt health... Voting closes on August 31st, so
please vote now!
mHealth Summit - Early Registration Ends
The largest event of its kind, the 4th annual
mHealth Summit presented by mHIMSS brings together leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers, and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem to advance collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes in the United States and abroad. In addition to all the other exciting activities, the StartUp ‘Mobile’ Health Pavilion brought to you by StartUp Health, and sponsored by Intel, will return to the 2012 mHealth Summit as a launch showcase for 18 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...
Money-saving early registration for the mHealth Summit ends on August 31st.
HIT X.0: Beyond the Edge - Final Call for Proposals
This popular and unique event provides healthcare leaders a glimpse into emerging technologies and industry innovations. HIMSS is now accepting proposals for
HIMSS13 HIT X.0: Beyond the Edge, March 5-6, New Orleans. This call for proposals closes on August 31st, so
act now!
Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge - Submission Deadline
Hospitals struggle to increase internal incident reporting, especially by busy care providers, and to create effective systems for the quality and risk management staff to complete root cause analyses and follow-up which are required by both CMS and the Joint Commission. The winner of this challenge will get $50,000 for innovating beyond the existing tools so that a new system can improve patient safety. The challenge deadline is August 31st, so
enter now.
Collaborate | Activate Innovation Challenge - Submission Deadline
Sanofi is offering up over $500k to a team of two or more non-profit patient and/or medical professional advocacy groups to develop exceptional solutions to improve people’s engagement with their health. The solutions can be for any therapeutic area and do not need to be tech-driven. The field is wide open to all ideas! This is an exciting opportunity for a startup to partner with two non-profits to develop a solution, as long as the recipients of the funds are the non-profits. For example, if your startup is working with a non-profit, the money could fuel those exercises. This is a unique chance for startups to pair up with non-profits and really make a difference in people’s lives!
Concept must be submitted by August 31st, so get all the details now.
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Health Innovation Summit
August 28, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge
Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2012
Collaborate | Activate Innovation 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)
Transform 2012
September 9-11, 2012 (Rochester, MN)
Military Mobile Health Summit
September 12-14, 2012 (Baltimore, MD)
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
My Air, My Health Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 6, 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)
The Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2012
For even more, visit our listings of
Events &
Challenges.
StartUp Health Fellow Spotlight: Konstantin Karmazin, NYC
Konstantin is a Fellow at StartUp Health, where he applies his knowledge of clinical medicine and the healthcare industry to assist in evaluating applicants as an analyst for the StartUp Health Academy. Prior to StartUp Health, Konstantin spent three years at Huron Consulting Group focusing on improving the finances and clinical operations of hospitals systems. He is currently a medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine with plans to head back to Washington, DC, in the fall of 2013. Konstantin received his BS in Healthcare Management and Policy from Georgetown University. He currently resides in Hewlett, New York... Get to know Konstantin better by checking out
our 5 questions with Konstantin Karmazin!
The StartUp Health Fellows are an elite squad who work on the StartUp Health team and with the companies in our Academy by serving as analysts, researchers, community organizers, advocates, marketers, product developers, connectors, and talent scouts among many other roles. If you are interested in joining the StartUp Health Fellows Program in the future,
please see more about it here.
Apply Today to be Considered for Future Class in StartUp Health Academy
StartUp Health is announcing its newest group of Healthcare Transformers after Labor Day and is incredibly excited about the amazing solutions they are working on. We continue to review candidates for acceptance to StartUp Health Academy for the Fall. We’ve had the opportunity to meet with over 150 entrepreneurs in the past several weeks and we are currently scheduling calls and meetings for September. We are still in the process of reviewing every application thoroughly so that we can invite more companies to the program in the coming weeks and months. 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 and plan to add Healthcare Transformers ongoing throughout the year to help as many great innovators as possible. 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.
