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How These Entrepreneurs Are Empowering Community-Based Healthcare

May 25, 2023Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsAccess to care, Determined Health, Digital Health, health innovation, Health Moonshot, Health Moonshots, Health Transformers, Healthy Longevity, Innovation, Logan Plaster, Loneliness, Longevity, Pear Suite, Senior Care, SeniorsNicole Kinsey

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Some startups provide tools directly consumers and patients while others tackle issues in the hospital, at the other end of the care journey.

Our two guests today, Dr. Scott Kaiser from Determined Health and Nick Lockett from Pear Suite, occupy a sort of middle ground. They empower communities and community-based organizations to provide better care for vulnerable people.

It doesn’t take much to see the need for more empowered communities in healthcare. Every day we see more headlines about an epidemic of loneliness and the role of social connection in health outcomes. That data is in, and it’s not good. We know from our own experience that there are health concerns you might share with a friend before turning to a doctor.

Nowhere is the need for community-based health intervention more clear than with seniors. According to our guests today, that process starts with empowering authentic, actionable communication. So they’ve built unique tools and platforms designed make that process scaleable, replicable, and easy.

Our first guest today is Scott Kaiser, MD, CEO & Co-founder of Determined Health, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2022. Dr. Kaiser, a trained geriatrician, along with this team, was recently recognized by CHIME and ScaleHealth as a finalist in their patent engagement challenge. After receiving the award in the “digital front door” category, he likened his company to being the Walmart greeter for the healthcare system.

Our next guest is Nick Lockett, CTO & Co-founder at Pear Suite. As you’ll hear, Pear Suite – also a StartUp Health company since 2022 – gives organizations the tools necessary to track community-driven care and identify social determinants of health. Their data-driven approach upgrades a life-saving process that has often been relegated to pen and paper.

Enjoy the episode, which was recorded at the ViVE 2023 conference in Nashville.

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How Nightingale Is Redefining Preventative Health

February 8, 2022Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedAI, Blood Testing, Cure Disease, diabetes, Finland, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Health Tech, Heart Disease, Logan Plaster, Longevity, Moonshots, Nightingale, Teemu Suna, TelehealthNicole Kinsey

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Nightingale Health, a Finnish company that StartUp Health backed in 2016, uses a new kind of blood testing to predict future disease risk so that people can change the course of their health before it’s too late. They’ve designed a way to analyze blood samples that pulls 250 times more data from that sample than a typical test. They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to correlate that data with future disease risk, like diabetes and heart disease. Then they put the result in simple terms so that patients can see trends and take action.

This year, Nightingale took three big strides forward. They went public on the Finnish Nasdaq, which gave them capital to scale globally. They rolled out at-home testing kits so more people can benefit from Nightingale’s disease prediction. And they acquired a genomics company that will allow them to bake genetic information into their app and provide people with even more personalized health assessments.

We sat down with Nightingale CEO and Co-founder Teemu Suna to hear more about their blood testing technology and how it could change preventative health globally by getting patients to see their potential future and then change the course of their health.

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How LifeBio Is Using the Power of Storytelling to Improve Mental Health for Seniors

November 10, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedBeth Sanders, coronavirus, Covid 19, COVID19, elder care, Healthy Longevity, LifeBio, Logan Plaster, Loneliness, Longevity, memory care, mental health, Pandemic Response, senior, StartUp HealthStartUp Health NOW

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In 2020, the coronavirus caused a societal lock-down like this generation has never seen before. Many who were already isolated and lonely — like seniors – were put into a desperate situation. Beth Sanders, CEO and Co-founder of LifeBio, a startup that’s been with StartUp Health since 2014, has always had a heart for isolated and lonely seniors. She’d worked with them for years, helping them to tell their stories, using what’s called reminiscence therapy. But COVID-19 put LifeBio and this important work into overdrive. Not only was the work needed more than ever, but LifeBio was able to connect the dots between fighting loneliness and improving health outcomes. Turns out a phone call with a trained conversationalist can fight depression, anxiety and keep you mentally nimble. Their findings got the attention of health systems, insurance companies, and even won them a coveted SBIR grant. Logan Plaster, Media Director at StartUp Health, caught up with Sanders to learn more about how LifeBio works and the critical role of storytelling in healthcare in a post-COVID world.

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Venus Williams Gets Candid About Entrepreneurship, Wellness and Bouncing Back From COVID-19

October 27, 2020Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAlison Harmelin, Covid 19, COVID19, entrepreneurship, Health, health innovation, invest, investing, Logan Plaster, Longevity, massage, Startup, StartUp Health, Tennis, Venus Williams, ZeelStartUp Health NOW

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Tennis icon and Olympian Venus Williams has built on her success on the court to become a savvy and successful investor, advisor and entrepreneur. Now she’s making her mark on health innovation. Venus Williams has partnered with Zeel, the wellness company that invented the idea of massage-on-demand. Now, Zeel has expanded to a tech-platform that offers a range of wellness on the go services. Recently, Zeel Co-founder Alison Harmelin sat down with the iconic tennis star to get her candid thoughts about health, entrepreneurship, and how startups can bounce back from COVID-19 even stronger than they started.

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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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#224: Dr. David Karow, Chief of Radiogenomics & Interim CEO, Human Longevity, Inc.

May 8, 2019Uncategorized2019 StartupHealth Festival, Howard Krein, LongevityStartUp Health NOW

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In this Fireside Chat, David Karow, MD, PhD, Chief of Radiogenomics & Interim CEO, Human Longevity, Inc., talks to Howard Krein, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, StartUp Health, on “The Longevity Moonshot: A New Plan to Extend Healthy Life” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California.

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#220: Todd Park & Ed Park, Co-founders, Devoted Health

April 10, 2019Uncategorized2019 StartupHealth Festival, Access to care, Cost to Zero, Howard Krein, LongevityStartUp Health NOW

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Todd Park & Ed Park, Co-founders, Devoted Health chat with Steven Krein, CEO & Co-founder, StartUp Health and Dr. Howard Krein, Chief Medical Officer, StartUp Health on “Creating a New Care Model that Treats Members Like Family” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California

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#182: Cracking the Longevity Code: J. Craig Venter, PhD

May 23, 2018UncategorizedLongevityStartUp Health NOW

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At the 2018 StartUp Health Festival, Jane Metcalfe, CEO, NEO.LIFE, Inc, moderates this Fireside Chat: “Cracking the Longevity Code,” with Dr. J. Craig Venter, Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Human Longevity, Inc.
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#133: A Fitbit for Standing Desks: Erik Carver, StandLogix

June 22, 2017Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedLongevity, mental health, Nutrition and Fitness, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Erik Carter discusses his purpose behind Standlogix and the importance of movement at work. He also shares his views on why he feels healthcare is the next industry ripe for innovation.

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Guest: Erik Carver, StandLogix
Host: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health
Location: Prime Health Summit in Denver, Colorado.

#108: Longevity Moonshots with Dr. J. Craig Venter

February 25, 2017Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, Uncategorized2017 StartUp Health Festival, Longevity, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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Dr. J. Craig Venter, Founder and Executive Chairman of Human Longevity, Inc., delivers a fascinating fireside chat on Longevity Moonshots at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about interpreting genomics in a fundamentally new way, not just to make people live longer, but to have a healthy life.

GUEST: J. Craig Venter, PhD, Human Longevity, Inc.
HOST: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy
LOCATION: 2017 StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Dr. J. Craig Venter & Human Longevity, Inc.
The Health Nucleus
Longevity Moonshots