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How HLTH and StartUp Health Are Uniting the Health Innovation Ecosystem, with Rich Scarfo

January 25, 2022Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedHLTH, HLTH 2022, Innovation, Logan Plaster, Partnerships, Rich Scarfo, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, Telehealth, ViVE 2022Nicole Kinsey

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On January 18, 2022, StartUp Health announced a multi-year partnership with HLTH, the leading platform for bringing together the health ecosystem around innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. In order to understand more about the partnership, we sat down with Rich Scarfo, President of HLTH. In addition to hearing his take on the recent news, we get to hear some war stories about what it has been like to be in the event business during COVID-19, and how HLTH thrived in the face of some daunting challenges.

Join us in Miami Beach in March for StartUp Health @ ViVE 2022: startuphealth.com/vive

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Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman Build Collaborative Partnerships to Achieve Health Moonshots

December 7, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups7Wire Ventures, Glen Tullman, health innovation, Innovation, Insights, investing, Investors, Lee Shapiro, Livongo, Steven Krein, TranscarentNicole Kinsey

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In this StartUp Health Fireside Chat, we bring you a conversation with Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman, the dynamic duo behind 7wire Ventures, Livongo, and now Transcarent. These two have worked side by side as friends and business partners for more than 30 years, investing in startups, scaling businesses, and taking companies public.

Now, in addition to all the rest, the two are backing a diverse portfolio of early-stage health startups through the StartUp Health Moonshots Impact Fund.

When it comes to health innovation, Lee and Glen have seen it all – always through the lens of a collaborative partnership. Steven Krein, StartUp Health’s CEO and Co-founder, leads the conversation, which covers everything from new market opportunities to practical strategies for working with investors.

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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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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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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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