In This Update:
StartUp Health & Healthcare Transformers in the News
iMedicalApps
Startup Health launches digital health Network, part AngelList, part OkCupid
Seeking Alpha
The Biggest Threat To LinkedIn: The Power Of Many, Not One
Blog Talk Radio
This Week In Oncology with 'Chemotopia' co-founders by JustOncology
Rock Hill Herald Online
Medivo Launches Free Mobile and Web-Based App for Hereditary Angioedema
Forbes
Scrap Outdated Regulations to Unleash Real Innovation In Health Care
RFPConnect
Instinet Adds Truth On Call to Independent Research Platform
BetaKit
As Baby Boomers Hit 65, Startups Helping Older Adults Stay Safe in Their Homes
Other Noteworthy News
Healthcare IT News
Docs take mHealth baby steps, use tablets for the basics
Pew Internet:
Mobile Health 2012
Healthcare Global
The role of Mobile Technologies and Applications in Healthcare
MedCity News
5 things for startups to consider as they walk tightrope towards regulatory approval
mHIMSS
Doctor snapshot: In clinics across the country, they're taking a liking to tablets
MDDI
Guidance on Mobile Medical Apps Near
Mashable
More Smartphone Users Turning to Mobile for Health Info
MobiHealthNews
Virtual avatars improve fitness motivation
InformationWeek
Mobile Power Will Re-Energize Medical Care
The Health Care Blog
The Next Digital Health IPO?
iHealthBeat
Obama's Victory Means Steady Course for Health IT Initiatives
Only a Couple Weeks Left Until the 2012 mHealth Summit - Get Your Discount Registration Now
The largest event of its kind, the 4th annual
mHealth Summit, on December 3-5 in Washington, DC, 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. StartUp Health is proud to once again be hosting the
StartUp Health Pavilion sponsored by Intel, Pfizer, and Aetna, where we will showcase dozens of the most innovated new mHealth startups. In addition, StartUp Health’s CEO Steven Krein will moderate a
dynamic roundtable featuring a diverse group of the country’s leading thought leaders in mHealth innovation. Only a couple more weeks left before the Summit,
get your $50 registration discount here!
Get a 50% Discount to LSAN's Healthcare Information Technology: Change, Outlook & Opportunity
Join StartUp Health for LSAN’s special full-day conference “Healthcare Information Technology: Change, Outlook and Opportunity” on November 20, 2012, in NYC. The conference highlights fundamental topics critical to building a successful company in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT): understanding the healthcare system’s complexity and perspectives of experienced entrepreneurs and investors, who will share their real-world successes and failures. The event is organized and sponsored by the
Life Sciences Angel Network and
Continuum Health Partners.
Get more information and StartUp Health’s 50% off discount code here!
End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge Deadline This Week
StartUp Health is proud to partner with The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) on the
The End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge. This Challenge will solicit ideas from people across the country, score them, and then let America vote to decide the three finalists. The finalists will win a trip to Washington, DC, where StartUp Health will provide guidance on questions that entrepreneurs need to think about as they build their business. Joining us, Mark Haas from Edelman will help the finalists improve their messaging and Vivien Riefberg from McKinsey & Co will help the entrepreneurs think through topics like revenue and market positioning. Then the finalists will present their ideas before a panel of judges and all attendees at the PHA’s
Building a Healthier Future Summit, March 6-8, 2013. We’re incredibly excited to be a part of the initiative to end childhood obesity. Applications for the Challenge need to be submitted by November 16, 2012, at noon EST.
Get more details here.
Blueprint Health Winter Accelerator Program
Are you a company in the Idea or Start-up phase and want hands on help in NYC. Our friends over at
Blueprint Health have opened up applications for its Winter Program, which begins on Jan 7. Blueprint Health is a healthcare focused accelerator based in NYC that helps early stage healthcare companies grow and build their business by providing access to the largest community of healthcare mentors of any accelerator, potential customers, and capital providers. Their first two classes raised over $7 million in seed capital from some of the most well-known and respected healthcare VCs and angels. Companies and floating founders can apply by visiting
blueprinthealth.org.
Get Access to The StartUp Health Network
Visit
startuphealth.net to request access. More than 1400 startups, 400 VCs, and hundreds of angels and potential customers are already using the Network to connect.
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Crain's Health Tech Summit
November 13, 2012 (New York, NY)
End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge
Deadline for submissions: November 16, 2012
Medicaid Provider Enrollment Screening Challenge Series
Deadline for submissions: November 16, 2012
Healthcare Information Technology: Change, Outlook & Opportunity
November 20, 2012 (New York, NY)
Big Data in Healthcare: An Industry-Defining Evolution
November 26, 2012 (New York, NY)
Connected Health
November 28-29, 2012 (London, England)
Mobile Apps Showdown
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2012
Last Gadget Standing
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2012
Health 2.0 at the mHealth Summit
December 2, 2012 (Washington, DC)
mHealth Summit
December 3-5, 2012 (Washington, DC)
Forbes Healthcare Summit
December 4-5, 2012 (New York, NY)
The Privacy & Security Forum
December 12-13, 2012 (Boston, MA)
For even more, visit our listings of
Events &
Challenges.
Are You a Healthcare Transformer? Apply to StartUp Health Academy
We will be announcing the next group of Healthcare Transformers in early Q1. Over the coming year we will be inviting about 75 additional Healthcare Transformers to join the StartUp Health Academy. If you are a builder, a disrupter, a transformer, an innovator, a passionate entrepreneur building something that will improve people’s health and wellness, we want to meet you.
Apply here today. Learn more about the Academy in
our FAQs.