Tag Archives: Access to care

MedHaul’s Leaders Break Down What’s Needed to Create Racial Equity in Silicon Valley and Beyond

June 19, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Black Female Entrepreneurs, Innovation, medical transportation, Memphis, Nicole Clark, SDoH, social determinants of healthStartUp Health NOW

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At MedHaul, CEO & founder Erica Plybeah and Director of Quality and Community Engagement Nathalie Occean are solving one of the oldest challenges in health: transportation. Each year, nearly four million adults and children with chronic conditions miss or delay medical appointments because they don’t have a ride. At MedHaul, the Memphis-based entrepreneurs have developed an Uber-like platform that books non-emergency transportation for people with special needs in low-income communities across 10 U.S. cities, and counting. In this StartUp Health NOW podcast episode, Plybeah and Occean share how they’ve continued to scale during COVID-19 and break down the core challenges that ultimately set the stage for why Black founders receive less than 1% of venture capital.

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Cityblock Scales Up to Meet the Needs of NYC’s Hardest Hit During COVID-19

June 2, 2020UncategorizedAccess to care, Nicole Clark, Pandemic ResponseStartUp Health NOW

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When the pandemic first hit, Toyin Ajayi, MD, Chief Health Officer & Co-founder of Cityblock, says her team knew, instinctively, that the patients Cityblock serves would be some of the hardest hit. Their patients are people without a financial or social safety net who live in communities where, because of poverty and racial health inequities, they experience poorer outcomes from the virus. “We want people to know that it is both possible and necessary that we serve these populations and that we do it well.” In an interview for StartUp Health NOW, Ajayi shares how Cityblock adapted and scaled their community-based health services to meet covid-specific needs, from on-demand in-home visits that follow COVID-19 safety guidelines, to one-on-one outreach to their most vulnerable members through culturally-competent telehealth visits and SMS communication.

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The Health Transformer Making EMS COVID-Ready

May 13, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Addiction, coronavirus, Cost to Zero, Covid 19, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS Communication, entrepreneurship, health innovation, Innovation, Nicole Clark, Pandemic Response, StartupStartUp Health NOW

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One day after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Beyond Lucid Technologies announced that it would be appending its EMS health information exchange platform, adding the ability to receive and sort fire and EMS encounters involving patients suspected of suffering from, or being exposed to, the deadly coronavirus. In this fireside chat with the company’s CEO & Co-founder Jonathon Feit, he shares how his platform is transforming EMS in over half of the United States.

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Meet the Health Transformer Addressing Racial Disparities in COVID-19

May 8, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, Uncategorized#mentalhealthawarenessmonth, Access to care, blacklivesmatter, coronavirus, Cost to Zero, COVID19, entrepreneurship, health innovation, henry health, Hurdle, mental health, Nicole Clark, startupsStartUp Health NOW

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Kevin Dedner launched Hurdle (fka Henry Health) in 2018 to address the mental health care gap for black men. Now, he’s expanding his vision for a culturally-competent mental health system with plans to offer Hurdle’s behavioral health services to other disenfranchised communities. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Dedner shares his vision for Hurdle’s next chapter and offers insights into the pandemic’s racial disparities.

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Three of Telemedicine’s Original Visionaries Weigh in on Its Future

April 28, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Amwell, cleveland clinic, health innovation, Innovation, Nicole Clark, Pandemic Response, remote care, RxRevu, telemedicine, Virtual CareStartUp Health NOW

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In the last two months, the adoption of telemedicine has escalated as remote clinical services become a critical part of a pandemic response. In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, three of telemedicine’s pioneers from the Cleveland Clinic, Amwell and RxRevu share the impetus for their work to build a future where world class healthcare can be accessed beyond brick n’ mortar health facilities, and what the next decade holds for telemedicine adoption.

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Health Transformers Bringing Diagnostics Into the Home

April 21, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cancer, Cure Disease, diagnostics, Innovation, Longevity, Nicole Clark, Pandemic Response, remote care, Telehealth, telemedicineStartUp Health NOW

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A tricorder, a centrifuge that fits in the palm of your hand, stick-on thermo patches that can detect early stage breast cancer… What used to be considered sci-fi are now existing technologies that are helping medical professionals meet patients where they’re at – in their home. Tune into this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast to learn how the founders of Welwaze, Sandstone Diagnostics, and Aidar Health are using these devices to bridge the access to care gap and why tech like theirs is paramount to an effective pandemic response.

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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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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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David Feinberg of Google Health @ 2020 StartUp Health Festival

January 28, 2020Business, Health2020 StartUp Health Festival, Access to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, Dr. David Feinberg, Google, Google Health, Howard Krein, md, StartUp Health, StartUp Health magazineStartUp Health NOW

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Vice President of Google Health, Dr. David Feinberg, talks with StartUp Health Chief Medial Officer, Howard Krein, MD, PhD, on the main stage of the StartUP Health Festival in San Francisco. January 14, 2020.

Dr. David Feinberg has spent his entire career caring for people’s health and wellbeing. And after years in the healthcare system, he now leads Google Health, which brings together groups from across Google and Alphabet that are using AI, product expertise and hardware to take on big healthcare challenges. (https://www.blog.google/technology/he…)

Dr. Howard Krein is the Chief Medical Officer of StartUp Health, which was founded in 2011 to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, committed to achieving health moonshots.

Dr. Krein is also an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and a founding partner and co-director of Jefferson’s Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Center. Additionally, he is the Senior Director of Health Policy & Innovation at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Krein served on the Biden Cancer Initiative’s Board of Directors.

Dr. Krein is part of an exclusive group of physicians with two doctorates, receiving his MD from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Krein completed internships in both Emergency Medicine and General Surgery, a residency in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Rutgers University. Dr. Krein lives in Philadelphia, PA.

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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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