Category Archives: Startups

#114: Children’s Health Moonshots: Transforming the Way We Care for Children



How can innovation transform the way we care for children? In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, chief of digital innovation at Seattle Children’s Hospital, chats with Gil Peri, Children’s Hospital Colorado, James Wall, MD, Stanford Children’s Health, Andrew Burns, Gobiquity, and Bronwyn Harris, MD, Stanford Children’s Health to answer this important question.


#118: A Global Approach to Transforming Health – Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP



How will enterprise software giant SAP help startups transform health and wellness? In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers advice to entrepreneurs, and explains why his organization is so eager to work with StartUp Health’s Global Army of Health Transformers.

GUEST: Bill McDermott, SAP
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
From the Deli to SAP
Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
StartUp Health and SAP

Access our blog here: https://medium.com/p/87b9cf87834c


#113: The Rise of Healthcare’s Emerging Innovation Hubs



Health innovation leaders chat at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about how their individual projects and institutions are rethinking health and healthcare with a shared goal of improving health and delivering the highest quality level of care.

INTRODUCTION: Jay Sullivan, DLA Piper
GUESTS: Esther Dyson, The Way to Wellville; David Feinberg, MD, Geisinger Health; Richard Zane, MD, UCHealth
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

Show Notes and Key Takeaways can be found here: https://medium.com/p/2d0450c18972)


#112: Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge: Leadership Panel



In this latest episode of StartUp Health NOW!, thought leaders from the world’s largest health systems and health technology companies gather at the StartUp Health Festival to engage in an interesting conversation around digital disruption and its effect on patients’ lives.

GUESTS: Steven Nelson, Anthem; Clark Golestani, Merck; Karl Hick, Shire;
Matthew Collier, Accenture; Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health
HOST: Anne O’Riordan, Accenture
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
The Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
Digital Disruption: Why Now Is Important
The Digital and Value Age: What It Means to the Consumer


#111: Cost to Zero Moonshots – Radically Reducing Healthcare Costs – Jonathan Bush, athenahealth



In this Fireside Chat, Jonathan Bush, CEO & Co-founder of athenahealth, engages in a lively banter with author & Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about building sustainable solutions to drive healthcare costs down.

GUEST: Jonathan Bush, athenahealth
HOST: Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Driving Healthcare Costs Down: Cost to Zero Moonshots
Bending the Cost Curve
Pricing Models to Help Drive Costs Down


#108: Longevity Moonshots with Dr. J. Craig Venter



Dr. J. Craig Venter, Founder and Executive Chairman of Human Longevity, Inc., delivers a fascinating fireside chat on Longevity Moonshots at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about interpreting genomics in a fundamentally new way, not just to make people live longer, but to have a healthy life.

GUEST: J. Craig Venter, PhD, Human Longevity, Inc.
HOST: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
LOCATION: 2017 StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Dr. J. Craig Venter & Human Longevity, Inc.
The Health Nucleus
Longevity Moonshots


#100: Transforming Disease w Data, Tech & Personalized Medicine-Mike Pellini, MD, Foundation Medicine



Mike Pellini, MD, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Foundation Medicine, sits down with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival for a Fireside Chat on analyzing tumors through genome sequencing and how new innovations are helping to advance the way physicians can treat cancer and potentially cure all diseases.

GUEST: Mike Pellini, MD, Foundation Medicine
HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Mike Pellini and Foundation Medicine’s Moonshot
Curing All Diseases – A Bold Goal
Mike and StartUp Health – An Interesting Connection


#109: Access to Care Moonshots: Delivering Quality Care to the World



Melanie Evans, health reporter for the Wall Street Journal, moderates a lively Fireside Chat with Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic; Steven J. Corwin, MD, CEO, NY-Presbyterian Hospital; and Jena Hausmann, CEO & President, Children’s Hospital Colorado, on ways in which hospitals and providers can provide quality care to everyone, regardless of income or vulnerability.

GUESTS: Dr. Toby Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Steven J. Corwin, NY-Presbyterian Hospital, Jena Hausmann, Children’s Hospital Colorado
HOST: Melanie Evans, Wall Street Journal
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA


#107: Building Your Network – Wayne Kimmel, Managing Partner, SeventySix Capital



Wayne Kimmel, Managing Partner at SeventySix Capital, talks about his decision to become a venture capitalist, raising his first fund, his advice on building your network “one business card at a time” and his new book, ‘Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel.’

GUEST: Wayne Kimmel, SeventySix Capital
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Studio, StartUp Health Village, New York, NY

IN THIS EPISODE:
Deciding to Become a Venture Capitalist
Raising His First Fund
“Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel”

(Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/44879379a801)


#106: Fundamentals for Digital Health Startups: Mike Vennera, Independence Blue Cross



Mike Vennera, Chief Information Officer of Independence Blue Cross, discusses how medical trends and changes driven by the ACA are creating big shifts in the healthcare system, exciting innovations he sees in different spaces of the healthcare landscape and how he feels innovators should ‘focus on the basics’.

GUEST: Mike Vennera, Independence Blue Cross
HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health
LOCATION: Accenture HealthTech Challenge Regional Round in NYC

Show Notes and Key Takeaways (Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/36d6d3f16262)