StartUp Health at #HLTH2019: Creating Health’s Future

StartUp Health joined 6,000 health entrepreneurs and investors in Las Vegas this week for HLTH, the largest conference in health innovation. This is our highlight reel.

On Tuesday at #HLTH2019, StartUp Health’s Co-founder and President, Unity Stoakes shared the stage with Michael Acton Smith, Co-founder of the first mental health unicorn company, Calm.

This year’s HLTH event in Las Vegas was a discovery-packed health innovation conference. And not just because of the event’s coverage of breakthrough technologies like Anthem’s blockchain network for large health systems, or Twitter’s emerging health sector. This year, much of the agenda was dedicated to asking the hard, industry-disrupting questions, which uncovered solutions and roadmaps for integration. Questions like: What are the invisible barriers to gender parity that can hinder growth and innovation in health? Or, when it comes to designing cancer treatments, how can we make sure the patient’s voice is weighed with as much importance as his/her genetic profile? Or, does more money invested in health innovation automatically mean more transformation? At a time when health innovation funding is on track to have its second most-funded year ever, StartUp Health was proud to have an active voice in the conversations shaping the future of health.

These are our #HLTH2019 highlights.

Founders of Aidar Health and Particle Health deliver winning pitches for culture changes in patient monitoring and patient data.

Left: “Mouthlab can measure 10 vital signs in 30 seconds. Our technology is changing the culture of care monitoring.” –Sathya Elumalai, CEO of Aidar Health | Right: Particle Health wins Audience Choice at HLTH StartUp Pitch! “Health data access will be commoditized which means we must be ready for what’s next: data permissioning.” –Troy Bannister, Founder of Particle Health

Iyah Romm, CEO of Cityblock Health outlines how his organization is delivering care to those left behind.

Romm, on the big screen: “At Cityblock, we believe we can fundamentally redefine the way that health services are built across the country for low-income populations. These are populations that have never been prioritized.” –Romm (member of StartUp Health)

Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, announces Food for Life.

“Food security is a significant barrier to health. Food for Life is a crucial step forward to address food insecurity on a massive scale. We’re going beyond traditional care delivery to tackle one of the most basic human needs.” –Tyson

StartUp Health’s Unity Stoakes and Calm’s Michael Acton Smith on matters of the mind.

“In the words of the Dalai Lama, ‘If we could teach every 8-year-old in the world to meditate everyday we’d eliminate violence in one generation.” –Smith

StartUp Health Magazine wins award for excellence in reporting on healthcare disrupters!

The smiles say it all. Subscribe for your free issue of this (newly) award-winning magazine, here.

Stories of health transformation in the making — behind the scenes of the StartUp Health global media network.

Left: Health Transformer Sally Poblete, CEO of Wellthie poses for her profile shot to be run in Issue 5 of the StartUp Health Magazine. | Middle: Founder & CEO of Curatio, Lynda Brown-Ganzert & Curatio’s Speciality Pharmacy Lead, Jeff Wandzura in an exclusive StartUp Health podcast interview. | Right: Andrei Zimiles, CEO of Doctor.com in an exclusive StartUp Health podcast interview.

What it’s all about: Building the relationships that will shape the future of health.

“I think having peers who are in the same journey makes it much less lonely. There’s so much learning that happens when we talk to one another about these shared experiences.” –Sally Poblete, Founder of Wellthie

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