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StartUp Health’s 2020 Midyear Insights Report: A Conversation With Jonah Comstock
StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes and editor in chief Logan Plaster talk health innovation funding trends with HIMSS Media editor-in-chief Jonah Comstock, a health tech journalist who has been covering the health innovation funding landscape for ...
How Joint Academy CEO Jakob Dahlberg Is Transforming Osteoarthritis Care
According to the Arthritis Foundation, one in four Americans will develop hip or knee osteoarthritis in their lifetime. Experts suggest we have yet to reach a maximum fixed lifespan, creating an overwhelming demand for accessing treatment options that ...
Dr. Sandro Galea: Changing the Conversation Around Health
To improve health, not just healthcare, we have to do the hard work of building a healthier world. And that, says Sandro Galea, MD, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, starts with investing in preventative care infrastructures,
MedHaul’s Leaders Break Down What’s Needed to Create Racial Equity in Silicon Valley and Beyond
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...
Cityblock Scales Up to Meet the Needs of NYC’s Hardest Hit During COVID-19
When the pandemic first hit, Toyin Ajayi, MD, Chief Health Officer & Co-founder of Cityblock, says her team knew, instinctively, that the patients Cityblock serves would be some of the hardest hit. Their patients are people without a financial or socia...
Hiring in Health: Aequitas Partners Launch the Health Talent Exchange
Executive search firm Aequitas Partners has been building teams for high growth health innovation companies since 2014. Now, with their Health Talent Exchange they're helping top candidates and companies accelerate the hiring process during COVID-19.
The Health Transformer Making EMS COVID-Ready
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...
Meet the Health Transformer Addressing Racial Disparities in COVID-19
Kevin Dedner launched Hurdle (fka Henry Health) in 2018 to address the mental health care gap for black men. Now, he’s expanding his vision for a culturally-competent mental health system with plans to offer Hurdle's behavioral health services to other...
Mental Health in a COVID World
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this year it coincides with one of the most challenging periods in the world’s recent history — the coronavirus pandemic. We’re taking a beat to talk about mental wellness in a covid world,
Three of Telemedicine’s Original Visionaries Weigh in on Its Future
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,...