Tag Archives: Cure Disease

inHealth CEO Harry Kim on Why Lifestyle Therapeutics Are the Next Frontier in Health

October 20, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, Logan PlasterStartUp Health NOW

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Our lifestyle choices play a big role in affecting our overall health and, in today’s society, are largely unaddressed. Health coaching, or “Lifestyle Therapeutics,” can help people modify behavior, which can lead to a healthier future. In this Startup Health NOW episode, we talk about the idea of “lifestyle as medicine” with the CEO of InHealth, a startup that’s helping people change habits to fight diseases like type II diabetes and hypertension.

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RxRevu Is Bringing Drug Price Transparency to Doctors at the Bedside

October 13, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedCarm Huntress, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, RxRevu, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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With the recent IPO of GoodRx, drug price transparency – at least on the consumer side – is having a moment. But what about at the patient’s bedside? In this week’s podcast, we sit down with Carm Huntress, CEO of RxRevu, a StartUp Health company that for seven years has been bringing drug price data to doctors at the point of care so they can make smarter decisions for their patients.

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Our Powers Combined

September 15, 2020Business, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, SageSurfer, Sen Jam, SenJam, StartUp Health, StartUp Health NowStartUp Health NOW

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After a meeting at a StartUp Health event years ago and recognizing a kindred mindset in the other, two CEOs from our portfolio, Jim Iversen of Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical and Anupam Khandelwal of Sagesurfer, decided to join forces and develop a digital therapeutics app, which just hit the app store, to help patients track their MS-related symptoms for personal awareness purposes.

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One Health Transformer’s Decades-Long Journey to Cure Chronic Pain

August 18, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAddiction, chronic pain, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, mental health, neuromodulation, Richard Hanbury, Sana Health, Startup, StartUp Health, wearablesStartUp Health NOW

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23 years ago a car accident left Richard Hanbury with debilitating nerve pain that was so bad he was given just five years to live. While in recovery, he realized that a film was doing something to his brain that was providing greater pain relief than the morphine he was prescribed. It was this accidental discovery that inspired Hanbury to learn how he could use external neuromodulation to hack his own brain and cure his chronic pain. In this episode, StartUp Health’s Editor-in-Chief Logan Plaster sits down with Hanbury, CEO & Founder of Sana Health, to discuss his wearable device that reproduces that same neuromodulation in an effort to end all chronic pain.

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How Joint Academy CEO Jakob Dahlberg Is Transforming Osteoarthritis Care

July 7, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, arthritis, Cure Disease, Digital Health, digital therapy, health innovation, Jacob Dahlberg, Joint Academy, Joint pain, Nicole Clark, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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According to the Arthritis Foundation, one in four Americans will develop hip or knee osteoarthritis in their lifetime. Experts suggest we have yet to reach a maximum fixed lifespan, creating an overwhelming demand for accessing treatment options that address joint pain and immobility.

One of StartUp Health’s rising stars. Jakob Dahlberg, Co-founder and CEO of the Swedish based telemedicine company Joint Academy, has created an interactive digital treatment program for arthritis. In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Dahlberg talks about the companies mission, response to the current pandemic, and how creating a digital joint therapy platform is addressing a gap in healthcare.

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Dr. Sandro Galea: Changing the Conversation Around Health

June 30, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedBoston University, Cure Disease, Digital Health, future of health, health equity, health innovation, Healthcare, Nicole Clark, sandro galeaStartUp Health NOW

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To improve health, not just healthcare, we have to do the hard work of building a healthier world. And that, says Sandro Galea, MD, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, starts with investing in preventative care infrastructures, not just in treatments. In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Galea shares the inspiration for his book Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health and urges us to think more deeply about the interconnected forces around us—from money and power to love and hate, compassion, fairness, and justice—and how they can lead to sustainable health.

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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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Fireside Chat: Jennifer Schneider, MD, Livongo

February 4, 2020Business, Health2020 StartUp Health Festival, Arundhati Parmar, Cure Disease, diabetes, Jennifer Schneider, Livongo, mdStartUp Health NOW

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Jennifer Schneider, MD, President of Livongo, talks with MedCity News Vice President & Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco. January 14, 2020.

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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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Curatio’s CEO and Chief Growth Officer Share How Their Platform is Filling a Social Care Gap for Chronic Disease Patients

November 20, 2019Business, Health2019 HLTH conference, community, Curatio, Cure Disease, Digital Health, End Cancer, Health, Healthcare, HLTH, Jeff Wandzura, Logan Plaster, Lynda Brown-Ganzert, mental health, Patients, StartUp Health, StartUp Health magazineStartUp Health NOW

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Logan Plaster, StartUp Health’s Media Director and Editor-in-Chief of the StartUp Health magazine, caught up with Curatio’s CEO and Founder, Lynda Brown-Ganzert and Chief Growth Officer, Jeff Wandzura at the 2019 HLTH conference in Las Vegas. Curatio is described as the “worlds first social health prescription.” In this episode of StartUp Health:NOW, Lynda and Jeff give a walk-through of their health platform and discuss how they are helping patients better understand their condition by providing them with a support community and the tools needed to take control of their own health.

Location: HLTH 2019 Las Vegas, NV

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