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Medical Billing Startup Inbox Health Bags $15M to ‘Fix the Pipes in Healthcare’

April 20, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsBlake Walker, Cost to Zero, Health Moonshot Update, Inbox Health, Logan PlasterStartUp Health

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Blake Walker, CEO and Co-founder of Inbox Health, which joined StartUp Health in 2014, is helping to upgrade medical billing by delivering a personalized billing experience to healthcare practices. They’ve built a billing tool that puts clear communication at the center, which has helped them grow by 500% in the last year, and they’re signing 100 new practices per month. And they just raised $15M to scale their platform even faster.

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With $8.5B Raised Globally in Q1 of 2021, Health Innovation Funding Hits New Milestone

April 9, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, StartupsFunding, Insights, Logan Plaster, StartUp Health InsightsStartUp Health

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What began as a rapid reaction to COVID-19 has become an enduring wave of interest, adoption, and investment in health innovation companies. According to this quarter’s record-breaking investment numbers, the After-Covid world has arrived, and health startups are leading the way. StartUp Health’s Editor-in-Chief Logan Plaster breaks down the full report in the latest podcast episode.

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Aidar Health Scores FDA Clearance for New Breath-Based “Tricorder” Health Monitoring Device

March 23, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cure Disease, Logan Plaster, Pandemic ResponseStartUp Health

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In this episode, we talk with Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, a StartUp Health company since 2016. Sathya and his team in Baltimore have invented something that could change healthcare as we know it. It’s a simple-looking device that you hold in your hand and breathe into for 30 seconds. From that simple act, the device — MouthLab — can pull more than 10 vitals. What’s even more impressive is that they’ve clinically validated the health tests at the highest level. Sathya breaks it all down in our interview and explains his moonshot vision for the future of remote monitoring and chronic disease management.

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GE Healthcare’s Karley Yoder Builds Bridges With AI

March 16, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Cure Disease, GE, karley yoder, Logan PlasterStartUp Health

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Karley Yoder made a name for herself in the digital health world at Doctor on Demand and Apple before launching a career at GE Healthcare, where she now serves as Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence. Today, she works to find the signal in the noise surrounding AI, helping the company leverage its potential to improve patient outcomes, rather than to apply, as she puts it, “technology for technology’s sake.” Yoder joined the StartUp Health community at a recent Fireside Chat, where she explained how impact-driven AI can help to expand care teams, why effective partnerships are built on practical approaches to problems, and how an ecosystem of “GE-plus-others” can help ensure positive, sustainable change.

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Cloudbreak’s Jamey Edwards Breaks Down the UpHealth Mega Deal and Why SPACs Work

March 9, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cost to Zero, Health Moonshot Update, Logan Plaster, Pandemic ResponseStartUp Health

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Jamey Edwards, the CEO and Co-founder of Cloudbreak Health, has been in telemedicine for years, but his health moonshot impact is about to get a lot bigger. Thanks to a SPAC (which he breaks down in the podcast), his company has been “rolled up” into a new publicly-traded mega-company called UpHealth, which will bring to bear hundreds of millions of dollars and combine the offerings of multiple digital health entities.

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A Moonshot Vision for Healthcare Virtual Reality With Dr. Brennan Spiegel

February 22, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Cedars-Sinai, Healthcare, Logan Plaster, Virtual Reality, VRStartUp Health

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Dispense with everything you know about virtual reality. So says Dr. Brennan Spiegel at the opening of his new book, VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics will Revolutionize Medicine. Dr. Spiegel, our guest on this episode of StartUp Health TV, directs the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at Cedar Sinai Hospital in L.A. He’s one of the most influential and forward-thinking figures in health innovation today. The conversation went deep into the potential for virtual reality to transform therapeutic care, well beyond what many people see as possible.

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The Surprising Secret to Doctor.com’s Success

February 16, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, andrei zimiles, doctor.com, Logan Plaster, reed mollins, StartUp HealthStartUp Health

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Andrei Zimiles and Reed Mollins, founders of Doctor.com, are longtime friends and longtime friends of StartUp Health. The two met as pre-teens at summer camp and led parallel lives before becoming partners and entrepreneurs, dropping out of high school at age 16 and transferring out of and into the very same colleges. And just as their friendship has been something of a journey, so, too, has their professional relationship, from Doctor.com’s origins at rented desks in a dusty Soho co-working space (the two vividly recall a garbage bag duct-taped over a broken window) to its acquisition this past fall by Press Ganey.

Zimiles and Mollins joined StartUp Health back in 2013 and returned to share their hard-won wisdom at a recent Fireside Chat. In a wide-ranging conversation amongst friends, the duo explained how their attitude towards sales and approach to building partnerships took Doctor.com from its humble beginnings to its lucrative exit.

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Walmart Could Magnify Americans’ Access to Healthcare — With the Help of Key Startups

February 11, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, dentistry, diagnostics, Doctor, Doctor visits, Evan Schnur, Logan Plaster, Moonshots, Primary care, StartUp Health, Walmart, Walmart HealthStartUp Health

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In the era of social distancing, a doctor’s appointment looks a little different than it did a year ago. But Evan Schnur, Director of Healthcare Information and Strategy at Walmart, says the experience will continue to evolve, even after in-person visits resume. Schnur trained as a pharmacist and currently leads the development of the growing range of healthcare services at Walmart Health, which now include primary care visits, diagnostics, and dentistry. The massive scale of the world’s largest company by revenue offers new avenues for prevention and treatment that could shatter the paradigm for medical care. In a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat, Schnur explained what that future might look like and why healthcare startups might play a key role.

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With Finess, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn Is Breaking Down Stigmas in the Women’s Health Aisle

January 26, 2021Business, Health, InnovationDigital Health, Evi Heilbrunn, Logan Plaster, moonshot, Privy, StartUp Health, womens healthStartUp Health

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Because she’s tackling a stigmatized area of women’s health, one that’s been swept to the side for a long time, Privy CEO Evi Heilbrunn has had to do her research and educate the market. By doing so, she’s showing retailers like Target – where Finess is now on the shelf – that women’s health products were in need of an upgrade, and that we’re on the cusp of a whole new way of thinking about the whole women’s health aisle.

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StartUp Health Fireside Chat: Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, Health Innovation Investor

January 12, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Startupscommunity, Digital Health, Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, enterpreneur, Fee for service, Health Moonshot, Healthcare, Logan Plaster, Medicaid, patient, patient value, StartUp HealthStartUp Health

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In a recent Fireside Chat with a few dozen founders from the StartUp Health portfolio, we were joined by Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, former Chief Medical Officer at Medicaid. Dr. Ostrovsky is a practicing doctor and an entrepreneur – in fact, he founded and sold a company that was a part of StartUp Health years ago. In 2016, Andrey took on the role of Chief Medical Officer of Medicaid. Then he rolled all that experience up and became a health innovation investor. Andrey’s done it all and is generous with that experience.

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