The MedStartr Blog
Stories, event recaps, and insights from one of the world's largest healthcare innovation communities.
5 Insights from the Mental Health Digital Innovation Challenge
Last week, on April 8, 2015, The Digital Mental Health Project, Medstartr.com and Health 2.0 NYC, successfully hosted the Mental Health Digital Innovation Challenge at NYU’s Kaufman Management Center. It was generously sponsored by Dudnyk Healthcare Marketing, Janssen Healthcare Innovation, NYU’s Stern Healthcare […]
April 15, 2015
The Value of a Championship
As we start our third challenge for the AHA we are looking back on our previous champions and thinking about the Championship Effect. First, the Champions. The winners of our last three challenges were Dr. Michelle Longmire and her company […]
February 4, 2015
We Are Titantium
The Atomic number 22 belongs to Titanium, one of the strongest metals, especially when alloyed with steel. We are proud to share the 22nd spot in the periodic table of Digital Health with Titanium, as we also help make digital […]
November 6, 2014
Badass Billionaire Addict
While I was walking across Manhattan this morning I was thinking about potential Halloween costumes for tonight and being a former scientist that left a promising career under, let's just say non-ideal, circumstances, Walter White came to mind. He was […]
October 31, 2014
Eulogy for FairCareMD
Not every new idea in healthcare works. FairCareMD.com, our attempt to bring fair pricing to healthcare, has finally gone dark for the last time. After we tried to crowdfund it and failed we knew the end was near. It is […]
September 3, 2014
GET PUMPED! AHA Chicago is running an Innovation Challenge
We are very excited to announce that the American Heart Association is running another crowdfunding challenge on MedStartr. This time it is based in the MidWest and the finals will take place at the American Heart Association's Heart Innovation Forum […]
August 6, 2014
A Cure for Adoption Deficiency Syndrome
The medical community has long suffered from a disease we are naming Adoption Deficiency Syndrome, or ADS. It is characterized by an unwillingness to try new things despite evidence of potential benefit. This pathology is rooted in an excess of […]
August 2, 2014
Thriving After Healthcare Reform
We held a fantastic event last week with an incredible panel hosted by our friends at Emblem Health and led by Medical Director Dr. Eliza Ng. It was pretty excellent and over 110 community members joined us and some of […]
April 18, 2014
Do you know your risk for Heart Disease?
How many of you have been affected by heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular complications? Do you know someone who has had a heart attack, stroke, or worse – lost their life because of an undetected heart condition? At Cre8MDI […]
April 16, 2014
Physicians DO Want Patients to Self Manage!
Changing behavior has always been tough in healthcare. Whether it’s getting patients to quit smoking, lose weight or manage their diabetes, our healthcare system is driven by physcians and hospitals and not patients, we all know what happens- We get […]
February 6, 2014
Submission Deadline Extended for AHA Challenge
Thank you for the overwhelming positive response to the first ever New York City American Heart Association Open Innovation Challenge! An amazing group of ideas have been crowdsourced on MedStartr already, but a number of you had problems with your submissions […]
January 8, 2014
Final Judges Announced for the AHA Challenge!
One of the most incredible aspects of any MedStartr campaign or challenge are the amazing people who step up and get involved in your idea. In a Challenge like the one we are helping the New York AHA with presently, […]
January 5, 2014