In This Update:
Healthcare Transformers in the News
MedCity News
NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools
GigaOM
Speed dating for startups: NYC, Health 2.0, and StartUp Health pair health organizations with entrepreneurs
MobiHealthNews
NYC kicks off $50,000 innovation challenge with Health 2.0 and StartUp Health
Chicago Ideas Week
Where Does the Patient Fit? (video)
Krafty Librarian
Review of Docphin: App to View & Read Journals on iPhone
Project Syndicate
The Healthy Crowd by Esther Dyson
Noteworthy News
Forbes
Onion Headline? "Government Should Slow Down Race to Implement Electronic Health Records"
GigaOM
Education and health startups may be ‘cloaked in nobility,’ but how good are they, really?
The Guardian
Mobile health: donors should follow, not lead
Healthcare IT News
Legislation drafted for mHealth security
Information Week
Telehealth To Grow Six-Fold By 2017
EHRintelligence
The new normal: Accepting patient-provided data in the mHealth era
Computerworld
In-home health monitoring to leap six-fold by 2017
MedCity News
Four barriers that must fall before the personalized medicine revolution can start
Forbes
5 Ways Technology Is Transforming Health Care
Healthcare IT News
mHealth: It's time to 'grab on'
Looking for Startups Focused on Consumer Health Innovation Including Big Data, Healthy Aging, Sensors, Home-based Health Services, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Engagement Tools...
Only 10 days left to apply to participate in 3-year Program to scale your startup
Three weeks ago, StartUp Health and GE announced an exciting three-year Entrepreneurship Program to provide expertise, resources, and growth opportunities for health startups. We are seeking startups within a broad spectrum of consumer health innovation that may include:
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Big data & analytics
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Biotechnology
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Chronic disease management
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Diagnostic testing
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Healthcare cost management & reduction
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Healthcare delivery & point-of-care solutions
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Healthy aging
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Home based services & solutions
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Patient-provider engagement tools
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Personalized / precision medicine
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Sensor & tracking
Select companies will be invited to participate in the Program, which will include a customized growth curriculum, access to GE's executives, training on scaling business operations, a GE leadership mentor for each company, and exposure to GE technology experts. Additionally, the Program will offer a virtual commercial laboratory, where GE healthymagination and StartUp Health will create ongoing opportunities for partnerships, customer development, and pilot programs to test innovative products and business models.
The application deadline is February 8, 2013. Apply today at startuphealth.net/ge
StartUp Health Partners with NYCEDC & Health 2.0 on PILOT Health Tech NYC
StartUp Health is excited to partner on a new healthcare technology initiative launched by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the Bloomberg Administration, and Health 2.0 that is designed to spur innovation, business growth, and entrepreneurship in the New York City healthcare technology sector. The
PILOT Health Tech NYC program provides funding of up to $100,000 each to 10 innovative pilot projects annually to take place in New York City. Requests for matchmaking sessions must be submitted by February 10, 2013 and pilot proposals are due May 27, 2013. For more information, please visit the
website and read the
press release.
Healthcare Transformer Spotlight
Derek Flanzraich is an entrepreneur on a mission to make everyone a “Greatist,” someone who simply makes better choices for their fitness, health, and happiness. Derek is the founder and CEO of
Greatist (
@greatist), the fastest-growing site in the health and fitness space with nearly 2 million unique users per month. Greatist, launched in 2011 in New York City, is the first brand to focus on creating a new type of high quality social content consumers can trust. Greatist has been seen on TIME, Fortune, Forbes, Mashable, Men’s Fitness, TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and Health Magazine. Prior to Greatist, Derek was at Clicker.com (acquired by CBS) and NBC Universal’s Digital Entertainment Strategy & Operations.
Check out our 10 questions with Derek Flanzraich!
3 Days Left: Apply for a Spot in The Hive at TEDMED
The 2013 TEDMED event at the Kennedy Center will be the site of “The Hive” in Association with the
StartUp Health Network. This debut gathering of entrepreneurs and future-thinkers will include 40 innovative companies that will be selected to share their products and services and join the Delegates in Washington, DC. The 40 companies will represent a diverse spectrum of innovators from startups, academia, government, non-profits, incubators, and industry. If you’d like your organization to participate, the application process runs through February 1, 2013.
Apply here now!
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 or colleagues!
If your company is looking to hire the best and brightest, let us know and we will feature your career listing here with a link to the description in a future newsletter.
Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Hackovate Health
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2013
Nokia Sensing X Challenge
Challenge #1 registration closes: February 2013
healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2013
Healthcare Conference at Harvard Business School
February 2, 2013 (Boston, MA)
Startupbootcamp Open Pitch Days New York
February 4, 2013 (New York, NY)
Burrill Digital Health Meeting
February 4-5, 2013 (San Francisco, CA)
Challenge: Reducing Cancer Among Women of Color
Deadline for submissions: February 5, 2013
GETHealth Summit
February 6-7, 2013 (New York, NY)
MIT Health and Wellness Conference
February 6-7, 2013 (Cambridge, MA)
Health 2.0 India
February 8-9, 2013 (Bangalore, India)
PILOT Health Tech NYC
Deadline for submitting “Find a Pilot Partner” Form: February 10, 2013
Venture Summit | West
February 13, 2013 (Mountain View, CA)
Social Media Week: Health IT Panel
February 19, 2013 (New York, NY)
21st Annual National HIPAA Summit
February 19-21, 2013 (Washington, DC)
PILOT Health Tech NYC: Matchmaking Sessions
February 20-21, 2013 (New York, NY)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Games To Generate Data Challenge
Deadline for submissions: February 22, 2013
Hackovate Health Finale
February 26, 2013 (Kansas City, MO)
For even more, visit our listings of
Events &
Challenges.
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