Why American Healthcare Is So Hard to Heal
It’s not broken. It’s designed that way. And tech innovators alone can’t fix it. (from the latest Techonomy magazine)
StartUp Health
At Techonomy Health: Ubiquitous Frustration and Not Enough Innovation
A panel at Techonomy Health in mid-May tackled the daunting and politically-charged question of how to redesign American healthcare. The best ideas look little like what we have today: universal health coverage, outcome-based care, and...
Longevity Moonshots with Craig Venter
StartUp Health NOW: Longevity Moonshots, with Craig Venter, PhD
Anybody Want a $25,000 Checkup?
Human Longevity Institute offers a $25,000 full-day full-body examination including genomic sequencing. It promises to uncover hidden health risks and enable potentially lifesaving interventions. The benefits, it says, are not just for you, but for...
Funding, Coaching, and Data: StartUp Health Wants to Transform Healthcare
Part incubator, part venture fund, part mentorship program, StartUp Health aims to create an ecosystem for digital health entrepreneurs. Backed by Steve Case, Mark Cuban, Jerry Levin, Esther Dyson, and GE Ventures, among others, five-year-old...
How Techonomy Bio Inspired My Southeast Asian Healthcare Journey
Last year, I watched the inaugural Techonomy Bio conference from a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. At the time, I was working on my first healthcare consulting project—a market research study for German medical...
Everybody’s Finally Piling into Digital Health
A number of factors are driving the digital health revolution: Healthcare reform is changing business models; high costs and an aging population are creating demand; iPads, sensors, genetics, and big data are getting cheaper; and...
63 Companies Bent on Transforming Healthcare
When serial entrepreneurs Unity Stoakes and Steven Krein set out to build a digital health company, they quickly discovered that entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector face a unique set of challenges: daunting regulations, privacy issues,...
