Category Archives: Startups

For Margaret Laws, Innovation Springs From Co-Creation

May 4, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedAdolescent Health, adolescents, California Health Care Foundation, child health, HopeLab, Margaret Laws, mental health, mental illness, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Longtime friend of StartUp Health Margaret Laws has built a career on cross-sector, interdisciplinary partnerships. For 17 years, she served as the Director of Public Financing and Policy and the Director of Innovation for the Underserved program at the California Health Care Foundation. Today, as CEO and President of HopeLab, a social innovation lab founded and funded by the creators of eBay, she’s shifted her focus toward improving the health and wellbeing of adolescents. HopeLab’s multifactorial approach seeks to broach the many systemic and structural causes of mental illness in young people: “If there’s one thing that really requires multi-sectoral collaboration, this is it,” Laws says. At a recent Fireside Chat with StartUp Health co-founder Steven Krein, Laws explained how HopeLab’s uniquely holistic approach allows the company to tackle challenges from every angle.

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Michelle Snyder Brings a Creative Spirit to Marketing and Investing

April 27, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedDigital Health, investing, Logan Plaster, McKesson Ventures, Michelle Snyder, startupsStartUp Health NOW

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Michelle Snyder has done a bit of everything. Now a partner at McKesson Ventures (she joined the healthcare-oriented venture group in late 2020), the digital health veteran has seen innovation from every angle: driving the marketing behind startups like Epocrates and Welltok, mentoring early-stage entrepreneurs in accelerator and incubator programs, and making strategic investments at Welltok and now McKesson. But it’s her willingness to roll up her sleeves and develop creative solutions to challenges that makes Snyder an exceptional Jill-of-all-trades. Snyder took a look back on her career to date in a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat that was as fun and freewheeling as it is chock-full of good advice.

Medical Billing Startup Inbox Health Bags $15M to ‘Fix the Pipes in Healthcare’

April 20, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsBlake Walker, Cost to Zero, Health Moonshot Update, Inbox Health, Logan PlasterStartUp Health NOW

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Blake Walker, CEO and Co-founder of Inbox Health, which joined StartUp Health in 2014, is helping to upgrade medical billing by delivering a personalized billing experience to healthcare practices. They’ve built a billing tool that puts clear communication at the center, which has helped them grow by 500% in the last year, and they’re signing 100 new practices per month. And they just raised $15M to scale their platform even faster.

With $8.5B Raised Globally in Q1 of 2021, Health Innovation Funding Hits New Milestone

April 9, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, StartupsFunding, Insights, Logan Plaster, StartUp Health InsightsStartUp Health NOW

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What began as a rapid reaction to COVID-19 has become an enduring wave of interest, adoption, and investment in health innovation companies. According to this quarter’s record-breaking investment numbers, the After-Covid world has arrived, and health startups are leading the way. StartUp Health’s Editor-in-Chief Logan Plaster breaks down the full report in the latest podcast episode.

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Former Livongo President Dr. Jennifer Schneider Talks Moonshots, the Teladoc Merger, and How to Be a Transformative Leader

March 30, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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In this candid conversation with Unity Stoakes, President and Co-founder of StartUp Health, Dr. Schneider shares her hard-won wisdom and pulls back the curtain on one of healthcare’s biggest M&A transactions.

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Aidar Health Scores FDA Clearance for New Breath-Based “Tricorder” Health Monitoring Device

March 23, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, Pandemic ResponseStartUp Health NOW

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In this episode, we talk with Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, a StartUp Health company since 2016. Sathya and his team in Baltimore have invented something that could change healthcare as we know it. It’s a simple-looking device that you hold in your hand and breathe into for 30 seconds. From that simple act, the device — MouthLab — can pull more than 10 vitals. What’s even more impressive is that they’ve clinically validated the health tests at the highest level. Sathya breaks it all down in our interview and explains his moonshot vision for the future of remote monitoring and chronic disease management.

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GE Healthcare’s Karley Yoder Builds Bridges With AI

March 16, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, GE, karley yoder, Logan PlasterStartUp Health NOW

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Karley Yoder made a name for herself in the digital health world at Doctor on Demand and Apple before launching a career at GE Healthcare, where she now serves as Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence. Today, she works to find the signal in the noise surrounding AI, helping the company leverage its potential to improve patient outcomes, rather than to apply, as she puts it, “technology for technology’s sake.” Yoder joined the StartUp Health community at a recent Fireside Chat, where she explained how impact-driven AI can help to expand care teams, why effective partnerships are built on practical approaches to problems, and how an ecosystem of “GE-plus-others” can help ensure positive, sustainable change.

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Cloudbreak’s Jamey Edwards Breaks Down the UpHealth Mega Deal and Why SPACs Work

March 9, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Health Moonshot Update, Logan Plaster, Pandemic ResponseStartUp Health NOW

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Jamey Edwards, the CEO and Co-founder of Cloudbreak Health, has been in telemedicine for years, but his health moonshot impact is about to get a lot bigger. Thanks to a SPAC (which he breaks down in the podcast), his company has been “rolled up” into a new publicly-traded mega-company called UpHealth, which will bring to bear hundreds of millions of dollars and combine the offerings of multiple digital health entities.

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Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Moonshot Potential in an After-COVID World

March 2, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Pandemic Response, Steven Krein, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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While this may be the first global pandemic Toby Cosgrove, MD, has experienced, he’s seen a lot in his nearly 50-year career. The Executive Advisor and former CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic is also a former heart surgeon, a Vietnam War veteran, and now a member of the StartUp Health board of advisors and our Health Moonshot Impact Force. As Dr. Cosgrove sees it, COVID-19 has shifted the national healthcare puzzle to reveal its missing pieces, creating new openings for improvement and innovation. These include new delivery systems for healthcare, greater collaboration, better use of data, and accelerated innovation. In a recent conversation with the StartUp Health community led by Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes, Dr. Cosgrove shared his thoughts on our current moment and what comes next.

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A Moonshot Vision for Healthcare Virtual Reality With Dr. Brennan Spiegel

February 22, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cedars-Sinai, Healthcare, Logan Plaster, Virtual Reality, VRStartUp Health NOW

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Dispense with everything you know about virtual reality. So says Dr. Brennan Spiegel at the opening of his new book, VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics will Revolutionize Medicine. Dr. Spiegel, our guest on this episode of StartUp Health TV, directs the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at Cedar Sinai Hospital in L.A. He’s one of the most influential and forward-thinking figures in health innovation today. The conversation went deep into the potential for virtual reality to transform therapeutic care, well beyond what many people see as possible.

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