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<p>About a third of the ideas we have helped have come from Physicians, Nurses, PAs, Physical Therapists, and many other care professionals.&nbsp; New categories of care professionals have also been created here with Health Coach Networks that are now being offered as a service to employer plans (YouCoach.Health) and Patient Advocacy Services by people like Grace Cordovano, our Patient Activist of the year in 2018 have become far more viable as a sustainable service that is being offered more and more.&nbsp; Healthcare has been evolving in myriad ways and we are proud to be able to provide platforms to drive awareness, assistance, investment and adoption.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>As a person who provides care, we know you are even more frustrated by the limitations of the system for care and the tools available.&nbsp; We know, the MedStartr team has many refugees from the &quot;System&quot; and we have done many programs to help care professionals use their skills to improve care in innovative ways.&nbsp; We help them get out to market, drive sales, and even sell their companies so they can work on their next idea faster.</p> <p><strong>So how can we help you?</strong></p> <p><strong><strong>For your Practice</strong>: </strong>Find Innovations here, get behind them and offer to Pilot, Partner, Mentor or invest.&nbsp; Your &quot;Like&quot;, &quot;Follow&quot;, and reviews also make the team&#39;s scores go up three times faster than non-clinical folks.&nbsp; You are subject matter experts on how care actually works, so we value your opinions and engagement with ideas you think will work in the work that you know so well.</p> <p><strong><strong>For Your Innovative Ideas and Companies:</strong> </strong>We love helping clinicians get their ideas to market.&nbsp; Our first two investment exits were started by an ED doc/ EMT Team and the husband of a Physician solving a problem she described to him.&nbsp; Your expertise is key, but we know you went to Med School or Grad school, you didn&#39;t work on Madison Avenue or Wall Street, so you may not know what to do or who to talk to next.&nbsp; That was me 30 years ago when I dropped out of my Pathology PhD.&nbsp; I started a company to help fix the LOMN-based denial problem for a large physician practice management company in the 90s.&nbsp; It worked well and I let my team and I get aqui-hired for peanuts while the system doubled the revenue across 1,000 physicians once we applied to 156 other types of denials.&nbsp; So we have lived that experience through our own mistakes and hundreds of others we have seen and now help others through.&nbsp; Now we know how to help you avoid them too and prevention IS the best medicine.&nbsp; We can help you get it right the first time and teach you how to do it every time, not just for better exits, but better starts, growth, and sustainability.&nbsp; Just ask Michelle Longmire, MD, CEO of Medable who got their first funding on MedStartr while she was a Resident at UCSF.&nbsp; Her company is worth about 3B now and has changed healthcare for the better.</p> <p><strong><strong>For Your Portfolio:</strong>&nbsp; </strong>You have the expertise on how ideas will work in your practice and we value that.&nbsp; Join as a mentor (click edit profile and apply) and we will add you to our panels of expert MedStartr Mentors who are part of our accelerator and due diligence process.&nbsp; You get to see the data we do that no one else has on how people really feel about innovations.&nbsp; Want to know if patients will love an idea, we have the data and share with those who help.&nbsp; Click the invest button if you want to get in on some of the best new ideas through our various methods.&nbsp; Please also see the disclaimers everywhere about this not being a solicitation to buy or sell securities.&nbsp; As a MedStartr Mentor you are able to co-invest in the same rounds as us based on your accredited investor status, the deals available and your <em>own</em> decision making if you contribute to the due diligence and crowd-validation process.</p> <p><em>Note: the &quot;Invest&quot; button is not an actual investment, just interest in investing and the required SEC forms to KYC (Know Your Customer) as we can only, at present, allow accredited investors into our funds.</em></p>

<p>Pioneers in the hospital innovation program space since 2011, we have worked with dozens of hospital systems and helped bring Hospitals into the innovation space.&nbsp; We have designed programs, set upcontests, run challenges and more.&nbsp; On the most basic level, as hospital leaders and staff, your engagement with ideas here on MedStartr is a strong signal that an idea will be successful in the market, especially with you.&nbsp; As you know, this is critical for many innovators and your clicks count for much more.&nbsp; Our systems credential everyone who clicks and assign hospital leaders and staff more weight to their clicks, views, ratings,... 126 different ways based on our ADMP (Assesses Decision Making Power.)&nbsp; This helps all of us put our efforts behind the teams with the highest scores from a crowd of your peers AND all the other stakeholders in healthcare.&nbsp; But what starts on MedStartr doesn&#39;t usually stay on MedStartr.&nbsp; Often institutions find innovations that they implement and invest in, so that is the real benefit as an individual working at a hospital.</p> <p>On a larger scale, if you want to have the most innovation-focused care centers in the world, running programs with MedStartr is a great way to get that going.&nbsp; We do our programs only marginally above cost because having hospital partners like Oschner and HCA offer grants, contracts and Pilots to the winners increases deal flow and crowd-validation.&nbsp; We even made a self service option where you can se up a challenge yourself.&nbsp;Here is one of a series we did in New Orleans: ( <a href="https://medstartr.com/pages/nolahichallenge19">LINK</a>&nbsp;&lt;=link) for three years, as an example. We invested in two of the winners and they have done quite well. See the rewards or hit the Partner button at the right to start that discussion.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Tens of thousands of leaders from every major healthcare company have visited our platforms, attended our events, and connected with innovators since we started in 2008.This has helped improve healthcare in ways. When people connect, they often collaborate, and co-create the future of care.&nbsp; We help Partners find new ideas to work with, distribute, implement, invest in and sometimes acquire right off the platform in the 4th day of their campaign.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our first major Partners GE and HHS/ONC sponsored the development of Crowd Challenge platform, now built into this site, way back in 2012.&nbsp; They did it to get an enormous focus group, our site users, to help them pick which companies to Partner with and maybe invest in. Since then over 165&nbsp;large organizations like medical associations, cities, countries, and some of the largest companies in the world have used our help in similar ways.</p> <p><strong>Outsized ROIs for our Partner Programs</strong></p> <p>While not all aspects are quantifiable, we have a long history of producing disproportionately great results.&nbsp; Here are a few examples:</p> <p>+ For NYC we designed the HealthTech PILOT program resulting in Mayor Mike Bloomberg allocating 3.4M into the program.&nbsp; Within a few years the investment inHealthTech increased 13 fold from 68M to over 883M according to Business Insider.&nbsp; The next year just 1 deal in NYC was 2.1B.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>+ Takeda ran a Crowd Challenge to promote a new depression drug brand, drove awareness, and we see the winner&#39;s product in drug stores now</p> <p>+ Bausch &amp; Lomb bought a company they found getting traction on the site and that product is in the market.&nbsp;</p> <p>+ The Innovate with AMA challenge recieved 396 applications (13x the year before), became the #1 site for Physician Innovation and signed up the first 5,916 members of what came their Physician Innovation Network in five weeks.</p> <p>+ The City of New Orleans won a Global Innovation award for a series of challenges and community we built there (207-2019) and has since become one of teh best cities in the world for healthcare innovation</p> <p>Click a Partner Reward and Let&#39;s discuss how we can help your organization Partner, Pilot, Invest and Adopt the most crowd-validation innovations with our programs.&nbsp; We also may co-invest in the winners!&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Partner People Power Ups</strong></p> <p>While those are great, we think the education and engagement of corporate and municipal leaders with the innovators leads to the the most beneficial aspect: Innovation Virality and personal Power Ups.&nbsp; Anyone can come to our events or wander the platform and be inspired by the creativity and innovation they learn about.&nbsp; When they get back to work some say it infects all their work and allows them to believe things could be done differently, driving change from within.&nbsp; Leaders we work with rise quickly and get appointed much bigger jobs, run Corportae Venture, start innovation programs and much more.</p> <p><strong>Driving Distribution and CVC Benefits</strong></p> <p>MedStartr provides early-stage companies entrance into the system that gets their producds and services into distribution channels and into care. Helping two of our Fund II Portfolio companies into the largest hospital system in the US, for example, didn&#39;t just help provide great returns, but also brought better care out to millions of people.&nbsp; This has tremendous impact and also improves what our friend and advisor Cheryl Pegus calls Health Value-ROI (HV-ROI see link =&gt;&nbsp;<a href="https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/files/2025-03/Margolis%20CIC%20Framework.pdf">Health Value-ROI</a>.)&nbsp; The Partners often invest in the companies and participate in the success they help create as well.&nbsp; We work with several major organizations, crowdsourcing, crowd validating, due diligencing, accelerating and CVC co-investing in solutions that fit into their channels so everybody wins and there is less risk for all investors.</p> <p><strong>Getting Started in Partnering with us</strong></p> <p>Choose a Partner or other Reward at the right or hit the Pilot or Partner button if you want to book a time to discuss.&nbsp; If we have helped you or your organization in the past, please drop a like or make a tax-deductible donation.&nbsp; Healthcare is changing fast and the innovations are accelerating at the pace of AI-enablement now.&nbsp; As you know, that is very fast and figuring out which ideas are the best is no easy task.&nbsp; We can help.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>