The MedStartr Blog
Stories, event recaps, and insights from one of the world's largest healthcare innovation communities.
Making the Rock Health Year in Review
January 3, 2014
Icarus, Daedalus, or Somewhere in Between
November 26, 2013
Geek2Freak2Hero - Funding the Healthcare Revolution at MedicineX 2013
We just want to say a big thank you to Dr. Larry Chu and the whole MedicineX team at Stanford. Here is the talk I gave on stage in a very Patient-emPowered room. Funding the Healthcare Revolution: Geek to Freak […]
October 15, 2013
Open Season for Funding Healthcare Startups
Did you ever wonder why you never see billboards and infomercials selling stocks? For over 80 years since the Great Depression, there has been a ban on the general solicitation of private equities. Yesterday, that ban was lifted as Title […]
September 27, 2013
Oooh, that feels sooo gooood! Get way in the back yeah yeah yeah, pant pant pant…
In a brand new category appropriately named "Pet Projects" we have decided to end the restriction on pet health innovations. We have had many pet health project applications but this is the first that we could say is ready for […]
September 22, 2013
Trusted Patient Resources
I always enjoy a good tweetchat and tonight I stopped by #HCSM while trying to avoid some spreadsheet stuff that was boring me. As usual it was thought provoking which then lead to another interesting idea. In this case, there […]
August 26, 2013
How to Reach Millions: The Crowds Care Challenge Case Study
Here at MedStartr we have learned many things and love to share them as part of our MedStartr School with our clients and innovators everywhere. One of the greatest techniques we have developed is our Activation | Awareness | Engagement […]
August 25, 2013
We Have a Winner!
Originally published by Adam Wong / Management and Program Analyst, ONC on HealthIT.gov Drum roll please! The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the National Cancer Institute congratulates Dr. Michelle Longmire and the Medable.com team for winning the Crowds Care for Cancer […]
August 9, 2013
Do I Really Need a Business Plan?
I was on a panel a few weeks ago at Health 2.0's Matchpoint East New York with my friends Unity Stoakes from Startup health and Brad Weinberg from Blueprint Health when Unity noted that the days of the business plan being […]
July 14, 2013
We need your help to reach 14 million Cancer Survivors
To make the best new apps for cancer care, we want to get feedback and insight from patients and doctors who want to give or get better cancer care. Makes sense right? Ask your customers what ideas and features they […]
June 14, 2013
How to Make Innovation Go Faster
May 21, 2013
Our First Alzheimer's Project
Last Summer my brother Jon asked me to talk to one of his great friends about his idea. His friend Mike Antonucci was one of the first of our generation we knew to start a business and really have it […]
May 4, 2013