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Dispatch From the Frontlines of a U.S. Pandemic Response With KnowNOW’s Dr. Marcelo Venegas

April 17, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, Uncategorizedcoronavirus, Doctorpreneur, KnowNOW, Marcelo Venegas, Nicole Clark, Pandemic, Pandemic Response, Symptom Checker, Telehealth, telemedicineStartUp Health NOW

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StartUp Health’s senior writer Nicole Clark talks with Dr. Marcelo Venegas about how he’s expanding his telemedicine platform, KnowNOW, to screen and treat COVID-19 patients. As a doctor at urgent care facilities in Queens, Venegas offers candid insights into what’s working and what’s not at the epicenter of the US’ pandemic response. Learn more about KnowNOW’s COVID-19 platform at knownowhealth.com.

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The Telehealth App Bridging Care Gaps During COVID-19

April 4, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, Access to care, coronavirus, Cost to Zero, Covid 19, Howard Krein, Pandemic, Pandemic Response, Rejuvenan Global Health, rishi madhok, StartUp Health, telemedicineStartUp Health NOW

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At a time when telehealth startups find themselves uniquely positioned to alleviate the demand on health systems caused by the coronavirus, Rejuvenan has set itself apart through the platform’s preventative care model. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, a Rejuvenan user shares how the app helped her get quick medical relief during a COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, and CEO Rishi Madhok goes under the hood to explain how Rejuvenan’s blockchain tech is driving care costs to zero.

Original interview with Rishi Madhok, MD, CEO & Co-founder of Rejuvenan Global Health was at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco on January 13, 2020. Interview with StartUp Health Chief Medical Officer, Howard Krein, MD, PhD.

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The Italian Innovator Using Whole Genomic Sequencing to Combat COVID-19

March 27, 2020Business, Health, UncategorizedAndrea Riposati, coronavirus, Dante Labs, disease, genome, Genomic Sequencing, infectious disease, Nicole Clark, Pandemic, Pandemic Response, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, StartUp Health magazine, Whole Genome, Whole Genomic SequencingStartUp Health NOW

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In this new Pandemic Response series, StartUp Health’s senior writer, Nicole Clark talks with Italy-based Andrea Riposati, CEO of Dante Labs, about how his DNA tests are being used to sequence the whole genome of patients with COVID-19. His aim? To understand what genes play a role in our reaction to the deadly disease.

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StartUp Health Festival: Fireside Chat, Dr. Marty Makary, MedPage Today

March 24, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, Healthcare, Marty Makary, Medpage, Medpage Today, new york times, Pandemic, public health, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, StartUp Health magazine, the Price we pay, zdogg industries, zubin damaniaStartUp Health NOW

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Marty Makary, MD, MPH, New York Times bestselling author, ‘The Price We Pay’, Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of public health, and Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Today, talks with ZDogg Industries Founder & Creator, Zubin Damania, MD, at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 13, 2020. Host: Zubin Damania, MD, Founder & Creator, ZDogg Industries

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COVID-19 Update With Unity Stoakes, Co-founder and President of StartUp Health

March 19, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorizedcommunity, coronavirus, health innovation, Healthcare, Pandemic Response, StartUp Health, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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We catch up with StartUp Heath’s Co-founder and President, Unity Stoakes, for a candid chat about Covid-19 and how health innovators in the StartUp Health community are responding.

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Dr. Howard Krein, Chief Medical Officer at StartUp Health, on COVID-19 and the Shift to Telemedicine

March 19, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, coronavirus, Coronovirus, Covid 19, Health Care, Hospitals, Howard Krein, Logan Plaster, Pandemic, Pandemic Response, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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Logan Plaster, Editor of StartUp Health Magazine, welcomes Dr. Howard Krein, Chief Medical Officer of StartUp Health, to the podcast for a candid conversation about how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting health innovation at the macro level, as well as changes to daily medical practice. In addition to serving as CMO, Dr. Krein is a practicing head and neck surgeon at Jefferson University Physicians in Philadelphia.

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StartUp Health Festival Fireside Chat: Year of the Nurse

March 17, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, Amazon, Healthcare, Kristi Henderson, Lynda Moyer, Microsoft, Molly McCarthy, nursing, SEE YOU NOW, Shawna Butler, StartUp Health, StartUp Health magazineStartUp Health NOW

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Kristi Henderson, DNP and Clinical Operations Leader of Amazon, Molly McCarthy, RN and Chief Nursing Officer and National Director of US Health, Microsoft, and Lynda Moyer, Technology Strategist, chat with SEE YOU NOW Host, Shawna Butler, on the main stage of the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 13, 2020.

Moderated by: Shawna Butler, RN and Host of the SEE YOU NOW Podcast

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Esther Dyson on Achieving Long-Term Equitable Wellbeing for All

March 11, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, Access to care, Esther Dyson, Jane Metcalfe, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, StartUp Health magazine, Wellville, WIRED magazineStartUp Health NOW

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Esther Dyson, Executive Founder of Wellville, and Jane Metcalfe, creator and original publisher of WIRED magazine, offer their take on the big ideas shaping the future of health (and humanity) at the 2020 StartUp Health Festival.

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Why the Founders of athenahealth and Devoted Health Joined StartUp Health’s Global Army of Health Transformers

January 6, 2020Business, Health, Uncategorized2020 StartUp Health Festival, Access to care, Collaboration, community, Cost to Zero, Devoted Health, Digital Health, Ed Park, Entrepreneur, Health, health innovation, Health Moonshot, Howard Krein, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, moonshot, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, Steven Krein, Todd Park, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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At last year’s StartUp Health Festival Todd & Ed Park, co-founders of Devoted Health shared how they’re building a Medicare Advantage company that provides the kind of streamlined care they’d want for their own parents. Tune into the 2020 Festival Jan 13-14 from startuphealth.com!

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Reducing the Cost of Healthcare to Zero: 2018 StartUp Health Festival

October 16, 2019Uncategorized2018 StartupHealth Fesitval, Cost to Zero, Sam GlickStartUp Health NOW

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At the 2018 StartUp Health Festival, Sam Glick, Partner at Oliver Wyman, moderates a lively Cost to Zero Moonshot panel discussion with Liz Dunne, President & CEO, PeaceHealth; Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, CEO, Concerted Care Group; and Marty Makary, MD, MPH, Chief of the Islet Transplant Surgery Center, Johns Hopkins; titled, “Obliterating the Cost Curve: Reducing the Cost of Care by a Factor of a Million.”

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