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Hi <<First Name>>,
In This Update:
mHealth Market, Underserved Communities, and Other Noteworthy Headlines
Health Tech Zone: Venture Capital Investments in Digital Health Market at Half-Billion in First Half
GlobalData: mHealth: Healthcare Goes Mobile - Health App Market Could Reach Nearly $12 Billion
Health Imaging: mHealth Congress: Getting underserved communities up to health IT speed
iHealthBeat: Survey: Patients Want Online, Mobile Access to Their Health Data
mHIMSS: mHealth and ACOs: Improving the healthcare landscape
HealthWorks Collective: Mobile Health Around the Globe: Connecting Caregivers of Aging Parents
USA Today: Smartphone apps now playing doctor
Healthcare IT News: 5 ways mobile apps streamline patient-doctor communication
Health Tech Zone: mHealth Use - and Market Opportunity - Soaring
Healthcare Transformer Spotlight: Nadeem Kassam, Basis
Nadeem is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to reinvent how people track and manage their health. Nadeem is the Founder and Chief Alliance Officer at Basis, which he manages with Jef Holove as the CEO, and is headquartered in San Francisco. The company has raised $9 Million in a Series A from Norwest Venture Partners & DCM. Jef was previously CEO at wireless photo card maker Eye-fi and spent almost a decade at Logitech. Check out our 10 Questions with Nadeem Kassam!
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
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
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.
Welcome New StartUp Health Fellows
We are proud to have an amazing new group of StartUp Health Fellows join our team. Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Abby Bouchon who will be representing StartUp Health in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Konstantin Karmazin who is based at our corporate headquarters in NYC, and Brian Edwards who is representing StartUp Health in Chicago. They join Liz Gay who just completed her summer Fellowship in NYC and will now be representing StartUp Health in Chicago and Yaron Sole who is also based in NYC.
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 next class after Labor Day and is incredibly excited about the next group of Healthcare Transformers. We are now reviewing candidates for our class that will launch this Fall. We’ve had the opportunity to meet with over 100 entrepreneurs in the past several weeks and we are currently scheduling calls and meetings throughout August and September. If you haven’t heard from us, we are still in the process of reviewing every application thoroughly for the next several 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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