Startup to Watch: CoPatient – for patients, by patients
careinnovators | January 25, 2012 – No Comments
Location - Waltham, MA
Website – www.copatient.com
Description – CoPatient audits and appeals medical bills on behalf of patients. We see a large and growing addressable market as employers continue to shift healthcare costs to their employees and providers continue to struggle to collect on self-pay accounts. However, few tools currently exist to help individuals know if the bills they receive are accurate and fair. This service can be scaled by bringing the experience online and applying a continuously evolving set of business logic and rules (sourced through the broader experience of the community) to guide the process.
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There’s Still Time to Apply to NYC Accelerator Blueprint Health
careinnovators | November 2, 2011 – No Comments
Blueprint Health is a TechStars affiliated startup accelerator program based in NYC that helps early stage healthcare companies get started. Over the course of a 3 month program, Blueprint will provide support to entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies at the intersection of health and technology by providing $20,000 of seed capital, a shared work environment, and most critically, access to a broad range of mentors with deep healthcare, start-up and technology experience to support and to provide guidance to the teams.
What type of applicants does Blueprint look for? First and foremost, smart, passionate and coachable entrepreneurs! Especially since this is early stage, it is very much about the people/team, the problem they are trying to solve and surrounding them with the right resources. Beyond that, Blueprint looks for health, healthcare, and wellness companies, typically with an information technology aspect (pharma and devices are not within the investment purview). Examples may include companies that improve communication in hospitals, help people improve their lifestyles, marketing tools for providers and plans, clinical decision support tools, health education, and tools to aggregate and analyze healthcare data to save money or for innovation discovery.
Interested in applying? The deadline to apply for the Winter program is November 13. For more information and to apply, check out www.BlueprintHealth.org
As a disclosure, Christopher Tsai, Co-Founder of careinnovators, has joined Blueprint Health as a mentor.
Source: Blueprint Health
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careinnovators | October 20, 2011 – No Comments
Only 1 day to register for Health IT UX and Design!
For 50% off, use the link below
Recently in Boston, Atul Gawande noted that “Design of solutions is underestimated.” Historically, Health IT applications have lagged other industry in their design and usability. New health IT innovations need to coordinate care among many more users, from clinicians to patients to administrator. Applications must work across Desktops, Tablets, Smartphones, and other Remote Monitoring devices, and users are more sophisticated and expect improved usability available in other industries. The increasingly complex workflows put a premium on usability, user experience, and design. Health IT UX and Design 2011 will bring together amazing speakers for a lively discussion on the increasing importance of design for Health IT.
- Wayne Pan, Health Access Solutions, will talk about HIT, the importance of design, and his West Coast perspective
- Yumin Choi, HLM Ventures, will show examples of improvement in process as well as product design
- Richard Banfield, Fresh Tilled Soil, will host a design educational session
* Unfortunately Sachin Jain will be not able to join us. In his place, we’ll have a great keynote from investor Yumin Choi and an interactive panel session with the speakers.
Source: Health IT UX and Design 2011
BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange: Speed dating for startups and hospitals
careinnovators | October 19, 2011 – No Comments
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s an early stage start-up, it’s not always easy to find an established firm willing to test the new product. BluePrint Healthcare IT now offers one solution to start-ups targeting health care providers. The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series features regional events where healthcare providers are matched up with early stage but deployment-ready innovative companies through “Speed Dating” sessions to establish pilot programs in alignment with the current innovation initiatives of HHS and ONC. Healthcare providers and emerging vendors can share their needs and ideas—hopefully leading to pilot programs and test-bed opportunities supporting the deployment of innovative and new healthcare technology solutions. The series is currently accepting participation from Mid-West hospitals and interested sponsors. The West Coast Summit, which already has three leading healthcare systems confirmed, is accepting applications from innovation focused Hospitals, Innovators and Sponsors.
Read past the break to learn how to apply!
Source: BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series
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Join us Oct. 24 for Health IT UX and Design 2011
careinnovators | October 10, 2011 – No Comments
We’re excited to host our first BREW event! Health IT UX and Design 2011 will bring together an accomplished physician entrepreneur with education in design, a former Special Assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and an experienced venture capital investor for a lively discussion. Fresh Tilled Soil is hosting an educational session on design and will be giving free mini-makeovers.
Want a makeover? Submit your website, HIT product, or mobile app by October 17! Details here.
Why Should I Attend?
Health reform and market forces are driving the creation of new Health IT solutions such as Accountable Care Organizations and Medical Homes. These innovations need to coordinate care among more users, from clinicians to patients to administrators. And these applications must work across Desktops, Tablets, Smartphones, and other Remote Monitoring devices. Meanwhile, users have become more sophisticated and expect improved usability. Increasingly, market choices on health IT systems are coming down to design and usability.
Appetizers and drinks included – come sample great local craft beers from Blue Hills Brewery!
Who Should Attend?
* Health IT entrepreneurs and companies
* Health IT developers, marketers, and product development leaders
* Industry Consultants
* Investors
* Designers
Tickets 50% off until Sunday, Oct. 16 midnight! Attendance is limited.
Source: Health IT UX and Design 2011
The New Face of Personalized Medicine Webinar
careinnovators | September 23, 2011 – No Comments
The Personalized Medicine industry continues to move forward with exciting changes, opportunities for innovation, and new issues to explore. What does the imminent arrival of the $1,000 genome mean for diagnostics? For personalized medicine? For drug discovery and development? For health plans and providers? Will big data analytics be the key enabler of a new era of discoveries that will empower all stakeholders – pharma/biotech, government, health plans, providers and the empowered patient?
Join an interactive discussion on these issues and more during the free webinar, “The New Face of Personalized Medicine: Targeting Disease Diagnostics and Treatments with Big Data Analytics”. The moderator is Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief Kevin Davies PhD, the author of The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine, and will include an exciting panel of three distinguished scientists who are shaping the new face of personalized medicine:
- Eric Schadt PhD, Chief Scientific Officer Pacific Biosciences; Chairman/Professor of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
- Felix Frueh, PhD, President, Medco Research Institute
- Colin Hill, CEO and Co-Founder, GNS Healthcare
Send your questions for the panelists ahead of time to personalizedmedicine [at] scratchmm [dot] com or on Twitter use hashtag #pmchat.
Register here for this free event on October 6th, 2011, 1-2 PM EST.
Missed Health Tech 2011? Check out the Videos!
careinnovators | August 22, 2011 – No Comments
Our first Health Tech 2011 event was a strong success – with more than 150 attendees, it was a great opportunity to hear amazing keynotes and learn about exciting start-ups in the industry. A big thanks to our keynotes for their time and insights – Regina Herzlinger, Esther Dyson, and Jay Parkinson – as well as the panelists and lightening round start-ups.
Missed the event? No problem – you can access the available video and slides here.
Why aren’t all the videos and slides available? A few speakers gave live demos at the event and did not have any slides, while others preferred that their presentations not be available after the event.
Did you attend and want to watch the sessions again? Simply access the content by logging in with the email and EventFizz password created during registration. If you attended the event but did not register yourself, please reset your password using the email address where you have received Health Tech emails.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions on the event and/or videos? Email us so we can improve for next year!
Source: Health Tech 2011
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IGNITE: New Showcase Event for Life Science Companies
careinnovators | August 19, 2011 – No Comments
Are you a young life science company with an innovative technology/product? Check out the Life Science Innovation & Technology Forum (IGNITE). IGNITE will be an ongoing showcase and networking series that highlights cutting edge commercial life science centered innovation and technologies. IGNITE’s mission is to provide a spotlight where young companies can present their technologies to a multidisciplinary and diverse audience.
The keynote speakers for the first event on September 27 will be Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and Dr. Winston Patrick Kuo, Director of the Harvard Catalyst Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies.
Apply to present as part of the Innovation Showcase! This will be an opportunity for young companies to gain valuable exposure to a multidisciplinary and diverse audience. If you’re interested, learn more here.
IGNITE is organized by Steven Munevar, President/CEO of Munevar & Associates and Pam Gardner, CEO of Biotech Vendor Services (BVS).
As a supporting organization of IGNITE, careinnovators is able to offer our community a 25% registration discount off the current early bird registration rate through September 5th. Use the code: IGNITE25 when registering.
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Startup to Watch: EveryFit – Making Fitness Fun for Everyone
careinnovators | June 2, 2011 – No Comments
Location – Cambridge, MA
CEO – Sombit Mishra
Description – What the Wii Fit is to the living room, EveryFit is to the smartphone. EveryFit’s patent-pending solution is the first to identify physical activity type for cardio, strength, and posture-based activities (e.g. yoga, Tai Chi), as well as everyday activities from walking up stairs and carrying objects to sitting and sleeping. This rich level of context-awareness gives rise to valuable benchmarking feedback, peer-to-peer support, tips, gaming and rewards to help even the most inactive users make achievable changes in exercise and nutrition. By identifying activities automatically and contextualizing interaction, EveryFit also enables corporate wellness providers and insurers to streamline health incentives. In an 8-week corporate wellness pilot, EveryFit catalyzed immediate, measurable changes in behavior: *Gym utilization of pilot group increased by one day/week, 3x more than that of the control group. *Drove 20% increase in client’s health site traffic, compared to 70% decline for control group.
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Source: EveryFit
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DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase Contest Launched
careinnovators | May 26, 2011 – No Comments
DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase launched on May 25 and is accepting submissions to find the best startup ideas in health information technology. US entrepreneurs seeking seed or Series-A funding are eligible. HIT areas such as decision support, personal health data, mobile monitoring, clinical efficiency, and telemedicine are welcome to apply.
Applications are being accepted through August 9, 2011. Ten finalists will be selected and offered the chance to present in front of 200 venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs on September 22, 2011. The second annual event is organized by Morgenthaler Ventures, with co-organizers Health 2.0, Practice Fusion and Silicon Valley Bank; and sponsors, Gunderson Dettmer and Microsoft.
Partners include leading health IT incubators, angel investors, VCs and entrepreneurial groups at top universities- including Rock Health, Blueprint Healthcare IT, Band of Angels, Medstars, SD Forum, Health 2.0 Accelerator, Stanford BASES, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association, Harvard University, Princeton University, Olin University and Carnegie Mellon.
Judges include Jeff Tangney, founder of Epocrates and Doximity; Ryan Howard, founder of Practice Fusion; Brian Ascher, partner at Venrock; Alex de Winter, partner at MDV; and Rebecca Lynn, partner at Morgenthaler Ventures.
For more info, check out the website: www.dctovc.com
Source: DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase
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