StartUp Health Insider: Bringing an End to Fragmented, Siloed Healthcare Communications
A recap of this week’s health innovation news from the StartUp Health Media Network
The news that a Pfizer vaccine could be 90% effective against COVID-19 comes just as we see coronavirus numbers soaring to new heights across the globe. Taken together, these headlines sum up our mood for the final stretch of 2020: optimistic yet laser focused on the task ahead. Health innovators around the world are having success in the fight against COVID — and we celebrate a few below — but we can’t relax the pace. The stakes are too high. Let’s keep pushing towards health moonshots, together.
– Steven Krein & Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health Co-founders
Top Headline
Asif Kahn and Laura McKee Are Bringing an End to Fragmented, Siloed Healthcare Communications
Successful serial entrepreneurs Asif Khan and Laura McKee are giving clinicians relief from the endless barrage of siloed communications they sift through daily using emails, phone calls, texts, faxes, etc. Now, they can centralize and organize all their communication in one location, with a unique patient-centered functionality.
StartUp Health NOW
How LifeBio’s Beth Sanders Is Using the Power of Storytelling to Improve Mental Health for Seniors
The coronavirus caused a societal lock-down like we’ve never seen before. Seniors who were already isolated and lonely were put into a desperate situation. Beth Sanders, CEO and Co-founder, and her team at LifeBio were able to connect the dots between fighting loneliness and improving health outcomes for seniors with their groundbreaking platform.
StartUp Health TV
Bob Wise of SOLIUS Is Building an At-Home Light Therapy Device to Deliver Vitamin D Without Radiation
Bob Wise, CEO of SOLIUS, is leading a team working to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic through advanced light science. They’ve previously built a sleek walk-in booth to deliver treatment, but in light of COVID-19 are now developing a portable at-home device, the first of its kind.
Health Transformer Showcase
On November 19, we’re hosting the final Health Transformer Showcase of 2020, Virtual Care and the Digital Home in a COVID World, where five founders from the StartUp Health portfolio will share their solutions focused on broadening access to care, allowing better and safer patient outcomes, and supporting a more efficient health system.
Wisdom
Dr. Robert Mittendorf: Venture Capital in a Post-COVID World
The pandemic is likely to change the way patients see and communicate with their doctors for the foreseeable future. But what comes after that? Are we entering a “new normal” with telemedicine, or can we expect to return to interminable wait times and extensive paperwork? According to Dr. Robert Mittendorf, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, it may be a bit of both.
StartUp Health Insights
Connected Stethoscope Raises Series C Funding
We saw over $230M in health innovation funding this week, led by $65M for Eko, developers of a digital stethoscope. Other big raises included £38M ($50M) for Congenica and $40.4M for Medically Home.
→ See all of this week’s digital health funding
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StartUp Health Companies in the News
Ontrak Acquires Health Coaching Platform LifeDojo
MedCity News
Cohero Health Acquired by Aptar Pharma
MobiHealthNews
Strengthening Digital Patient Engagement With BuddyCare
Health Europa
Pharmacy of the Future … Here Today | Meet Physician-CEO, Mohammad Ali, MD, MS, MyRx365
Concierge Medicine Today
Health Innovators: AireHealth CEO to Help Patients Monitor Lung Conditions From Home
Orlando Business Journal
Virta Health Founder Joins Panel on 3 Key Roadblocks Preventing Telehealth Growth
Becker’s Hospital Review
InSilicoTrials Introduces Drug Safety Suite for Medical Digital Simulations
TechAcute
Telemedicine Is Here to Stay: Mediktor Helpful During Pandemic
Barcelona Health Hub
Upcoming Virtual Events
Frontiers Health
Nov 12–13
Frontiers Health 2020 is a hybrid event combining online global streaming with offline events at local hubs in multiple locations around the world. StartUp Health’s Katya Hancock will be moderating a panel on Thursday and Unity Stoakes will moderate a panel on Friday. Health Transformers from Buddy Healthcare, CarePredict, Careteam, Cecelia Health, Lifestores, LS CancerDiag, MedHaul, Nightingale, OTAWA, Quantgene, Sana Health, Savor Health, and YourCoach will be presenting throughout the two days. Receive a 25% registration discount using the code FH20STH25.
→ Read on the StartUp Health Blog
2020 Concierge Medicine Forum
Nov 14
Featuring MyRx365 & Quantgene
How the Cures Act Will Change Healthcare Communications and How You Can Prepare
Nov 18
Presented by iShare Medical
Global Health & Wellbeing Coaching Symposium
Nov 19–20
Hosted by YourCoach
New Virtual Tools for Arthroplasty Patient Support During COVID-19
Nov 24
Hosted by Curatio
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This StartUp Health Insider was written and produced by India Edwards, Nicole Kinsey, and Logan Plaster. Additional research for health innovation funding and news by Tara Salamone, Anne Dordai, and Jennifer Hankin. Follow us on Twitter and the StartUp Health blog for up-to-date information about top health entrepreneurs from the StartUp Health portfolio.
