In This Update:
Healthcare Transformers in the News and Other Noteworthy Headlines
NYConvergence.com
CarePlanners: The Aspiring AAA of Health Care
Health 2.0 News
AARP’s LivePitch: It’s All About Mom … and a Talking Dog
Chicago Tribune
Advocates say EEG therapy can guide mental energy
Huffington Post
An Oasis of Health and Wellness at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions
Reuters
Venture firms see signs of rebirth in life sciences
Healthcare IT News
Why Todd Park wants to set data free
MobiHealthNews
Bill would create FDA Office of Mobile Health, HHS support for app developers
Healthcare IT News
Proposed: FDA Office of Mobile Health
iHealthBeat
FCC Task Force Offers Recommendations To Spur mHealth Adoption
ThinkProgress
How Smartphones Are Facilitating Better Health Care
Healthcare IT News
ACO start-ups in IT-buying mode
Entrepreneur.com
Richard Branson on Finding a Work-Life Balance
Join StartUp Health at Health 2.0 and Health Innovation Week
At the
6th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference and throughout Health Innovation Week in San Francisco you will see amazing new ideas and get to hear fascinating conversations from leading thinkers, and most importantly get the opportunity to connect in person with a bunch of people on a mission to transform our health and wellness through innovation. On
October 7-10 new technologies will be presented in contextual environments woven around a developing narrative which illustrates the transformation occurring in the space. StartUp Health will be in San Francisco all week and we hope we get the chance to meet you in person! On Sunday, we will be helping judge the
Health 2.0 Code-a-thon and on Monday StartUp Health’s Unity Stoakes will moderate “The New Bankroll: Novel Mechanisms to fund a Health 2.0 Startup.” Ping us on Twitter @startuphealth or
via email if you’d like to meet up in person!
Visit Us at the StartUp Health + Blueprint Health Happy Hour for Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
StartUp Health team and Blueprint Health have joined forces to host a fun happy hour for entrepreneurs and startups on Tuesday,
October 9th, in San Francisco. You will be able to find out details about the party and location the day of the event from our twitter feed @startuphealth. It’s going to be a fun opportunity to kick back and chat with a bunch of entrepreneurs so we hope you will stop by and have a drink with us.
Healthcare Transformers Picked as Finalists of 2012 DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase
Morgenthaler Ventures and Health 2.0 announced the 13 finalists for their nation-wide contest to find the most promising health IT startups looking for Seed and Series A funding. We are very excited that three StartUp Health Healthcare Transformers have been included as finalists:
Force Therapeutics as our representative in the Seed Round and
Beyond Lucid Technologies and
CarePlanners pitching in the Series A Round. StartUp Health is proud to be a partner working on DC to VC on
October 10th to connect investors with health startups. See all the finalists
here.
Want More Party During Health Innovation Week? Register for Healthcare Revolution: San Francisco
The folks over at Medstartr are crowdsourcing a party during Health Innovation Week on Monday,
October 8th. Register for as little as one dollar here:
Healthcare Revolution: San Francisco.
Meet with StartUp Health at the Digital Health Conference in NYC
The New York eHealth Collaborative’s
October 15-16 Digital Health Conference will bring together over 600 health IT professionals to hear insights, ideas, and analysis from industry thought leaders and innovators who are shaping the future of healthcare through the use of technology. In addition to the stellar speaker line-up including StartUp Health’s Steven Krein and keynote speakers Dr. David J. Brailer and best-selling author of Freakonomics Stephen J. Dubner, some of StartUp Health’s Healthcare Transformers will be giving demos on stage! Be sure to check out
Beyond Lucid Technologies,
Docphin,
Rip Road, and
Medikly on the main stage on day two.
Get StartUp Health’s special 30% discount registration code here!
StartUp Health Loves Strata Rx - Our Gift to You: Free & Deep Discount Opportunities
If you want to leverage the power of big data for your organization, you don’t want to miss the O’Reilly
Strata Rx Conference. Strata Rx brings together experts and innovators in data science and healthcare, crossing traditional industry boundaries and uncovering insights on the emerging big data and analytic approaches that can help solve some of healthcare's biggest challenges. Strata Rx happens
October 16-17 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. We’re excited to offer startups the deepest discount yet: 50% off! To get this discount, startups (and only startups!) can
register for the conference with the code STARTUP50... And as a special treat this week, don’t miss the FREE
Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine being held at 10am PT
October 5th, presented by Julie Steele (co-chair of Strata Rx).
Health Tech Creating Jobs! 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!
If your company is looking to hire the best and brightest, let us know and we can feature your career listing here in a future newsletter.
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Health Data Platform Simple Sign-On Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2012
Health Data Platform Metadata Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 3, 2012
Body Computing Conference
October 4-5, 2012 (Los Angeles, CA)
The Feast Conference Hackathon
October 4-5, 2012 (New York, NY)
Health 2.0 Code-a-thon: HealthE Habits
October 6-7, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
My Air, My Health Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 6, 2012
Body 2.0
October 7, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
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)
Health Literacy Hackathon
October 13-14, 2012 (Amherst, MA)
NYeC Digital Health Conference
October 15-16, 2012 (New York, NY)
Wired Health Conference
October 15-16, 2012 (New York, NY)
O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference
October 16-17, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
Health 2.0 Austin Codeo
October 19-21, 2012 (Austin, TX)
Build Health Unconference
October 20, 2012 (Milwaukee, WI)
EU-US eHealth Business Marketplace
October 23-24, 2012 (Boston, MA)
Hacking Medicine
October 27-28, 2012 (Boston, MA)
The Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2012
For even more, visit our listings of
Events &
Challenges.
Are You a Healthcare Transformer? Apply to StartUp Health Academy
Over the coming year we will be inviting 75 additional Healthcare Transformers to join the StartUp Health Academy. Are you a builder, a disrupter, a transformer, an innovator, a passionate entrepreneur building something that will improve people’s health and wellness? If so, we want to meet you and do what we can to help grow and navigate the many challenges of building a business in digital health.
Apply here today. Learn more about the Academy in
our FAQs.
