Category Archives: Startups

#43: Transforming How People Experience Health – Dr. Douglas Wood, Mayo Clinic

September 16, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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“Always Be There for Me” – a tagline from Dr. Douglas Wood and his team at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. Dr. Wood discusses how his strategy behind innovating to help patients better make decisions about their health and what the future looks like for health innovation.

GUEST: Douglas Wood, MD, Mayo Clinic
HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health
LOCATION: Wearable Tech + Digital Health Conference 2015, New York, NY

IN THIS EPISODE:
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
Focusing on the “health” part of “healthcare”
Future of Innovation

#42: Wearable Electronics – Roozbeh Ghaffari, MC10

September 10, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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Is the healthcare industry really ready for wearables? Roozbeh Ghaffari, Co-Founder & VP of Technology at MC10 discusses wearable electronics, explains how they have (and have not) been accepted by the healthcare industry and shares his thoughts on what the future looks like for universal integration of wearables.

GUEST: Roozbeh Ghaffari, MC10
HOST: Unity Stoakes
LOCATION: Wearable Tech + Digital Health Conference 2015, New York, NY

IN THIS EPISODE:
Roozbeh’s Road to Entreprenuership & MC10
Wearable Electronics
The Future of Wearables

#41: Neuroscience & Digital Health – Nathan Intrator, Neurosteer

August 19, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedBrain health, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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What’s in store for the future of neuroscience? According to Nathan Intrator, Founder of Neurosteer, although we haven’t made much progress with studying the brain in recent decades, the future looks bright, as advanced sensors and signal processing break into the field.

GUEST: Nathan Intrator, Tel-Aviv University and Neurosteer
HOST: Steven Krein
LOCATION: Wearable Tech + Digital Health Conference, New York, NY

IN THIS EPISODE:
Neuroscience Past & Present
Nuerosteer
Future of Wearable Tech

#40: Functional Medicine – Robin Berzin, MD, Parsley Health

August 12, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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What role is functional medicine playing in healthcare today? Dr. Robin Berzin, Founder of Parsley Health, discusses how she has built her company to become the first modern affordable functional medicine practice and wellness center.

#38: Data and Consumer Health Tim Davenport, Consumable Science

July 22, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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How can patients better understand the data behind their health? Tim Davenport, CEO of Consumable Science, explains how the company’s MyBodyScore will allow patients to easily
understand what their body is telling them about their health behaviors.

GUEST: Tim Davenport, Consumable Science

HOST: Unity Stoakes

LOCATION: Health Datapalooza Conference, Washington, D.C.

IN THIS EPISODE:

● Consumable Science and MyBodyScore

● The science of biomarkers plus patient data and privacy

● Enabling employers, promoting employee health and wellness

#37: Esther Dyson on Importance of Health + Data

July 15, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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Esther Dyson sits down with StartUp Health to discuss the importance of health + data and how startups can being to pull away from the redundancy in the market. We also hear about how she is impacting the digital health industry with her newest venture, the HiCCup Initiative and Way to Wellville.

#36 The Human Experience of Data – Anish Sebastian & Juan Pablo Segura, Babyscripts

July 8, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity Stoakes, womens healthStartUp Health NOW

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How does the human experience affect the data used in digital health today? Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, Co-Founders of Babyscripts, discuss how the human experience of data is being embedded into everyday life. They also share their experience pivoting their company to focus solely on pregnancies.

#35: Data in the Healthcare Universe

July 1, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedUnity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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How important is data for healthcare? Bryan Sivak, Former CTO, US Department of Health & Human Services, discusses the importance of connecting and syncing healthcare data, how digital health startups can work with the government and advice for solving big challenges one bite at a time.

#34: Tech Trends in Underserved Communities – Joseph Flesh, Purple Binder

June 24, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Steven Krein, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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How do technological trends in underserved communities affect the design and implementation of your product? Joseph Flesh, Co-Founder and President of Purple Binder, discusses how he designed his technology platform to help people everywhere gain better access to social services.

#33: Aneesh Chopra on Finding the Opportunity to Bring Innovation to Healthcare

June 17, 2015Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedSteven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Aneesh Chopra, Co-Founder of Hunch Analytics and Former United States Government Chief Technology Officer, discusses the challenge of bringing innovation to an industry that’s resistant to change and finding the opportunity in that. Fireside chat lead by StartUp Health’s CEO Steven Krein at Health Datapalooza 2015 in Washington, DC.