Startup Health Now! Podcast

In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Dr. Ben Bynum, portfolio director of the Colorado Health Foundation, discusses his organization’s development of an impact investment strategy, and explains why that strategy includes the funding of digital health startups. GUEST: Dr. Ben Bynum, Colorado Health Foundation HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: Prime Health Summit Denver, Colorado Watch Here: https://healthtransformer.us/pushing-healthcare-in-the-right-direction-6ef64373673e

What if a game could give your brain a check-up? In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Clarence Carlos, CEO of RC21X, shares how his company is helping former NFL players assess their cognition, and allowing parents to monitor the brain health of their children. GUEST: Clarence Carlos, RC21X HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Studio, StartUp Health Village, New York, NY Watch Here: https://healthtransformer.us/the-game-that-monitors-your-brain-cc2752dd7451

In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Julie Reisetter, VP of innovation at UCHealth, describes how UCHealth’s clinicians, executives, and administrators collaborate with innovators, and offers advice to entrepreneurs interested in joining StartUp Health Colorado. HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health GUEST: Julie Reisetter, UCHealth LOCATION: Prime Health Summit, Denver, CO Watch Here: https://healthtransformer.us/why-entrepreneurs-need-clinicians-2e0426fba38a

On this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Health Transformer and CEO of VoyagerMed Anthony Girand chats with StartUp Health Co-founder and CEO Steven Krein about creating an innovative inbound medical tourism marketplace for consumers to find and gain access to the best doctors in the United States. GUEST: Anthony Girand, VoyagerMed HOST:Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Studio, StartUp Health Village, New York, NY Read the full overview on HEALTH TRANSFORMER: https://healthtransformer.us/how-telemedicine-is-revolutionizing-medical-tourism-f11e87dd2a48

In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne explains why Colorado is such an attractive place for health innovators, while describing some of the health and wellness problems the state still faces. GUEST: Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, State of Colorado HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health LOCATION: Prime Health Innovation Summit, Denver, Colorado Read the full overview on HEALTH TRANSFORMER: https://healthtransformer.us/whats-happening-in-colorado-5cb0094001f1?mc_cid=0bec1b0654&mc_eid=7ee0534f49

In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, New York Times reporter and Data-ism author Steve Lohr describes the current explosion of big data technology, and explains why this boom is convincing some of the best minds in data science to enter the health and wellness industries. GUEST: Steve Lohr, New York Times HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

What can elephant DNA teach us about cancer? In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Dr. Joshua Schiffman, a pediatric oncologist and researcher at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, explains why he believes elephant DNA might hold the secret to preventing cancer in humans. GUEST: Dr. Joshua Schiffman, Huntsman Cancer Institute HOST: Howard Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA Read more here: bit.ly/2pEWT2W

In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, speaks with Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, about how entrepreneurs will transform health and wellness, while offering insight into how venture capitalists think about health innovation. GUEST: Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures HOST:Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

We have the opportunity to end cancer as we know it during our lifetimes. In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Greg Simon, director of the Biden Foundation’s Cancer Initiative, shares what he learned as the head of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, and discusses how moonshot thinking can radically transform the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. GUEST: Greg Simon, Biden Cancer Initiative HOST:Howard Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

A revolution is taking place in healthcare. In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Unity Stoakes, president of StartUp Health, talks about this revolution with Jerry Levin, the organization’s chairman, and discusses how StartUp Health’s global army is leading it. GUEST: Jerry Levin, Chairman, StartUp Health HOST: Unity Stoakes, Cofounder and President, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA (Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/52d73bb87f0f)

How can innovation transform the way we care for children? In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, chief of digital innovation at Seattle Children’s Hospital, chats with Gil Peri, Children’s Hospital Colorado, James Wall, MD, Stanford Children’s Health, Andrew Burns, Gobiquity, and Bronwyn Harris, MD, Stanford Children’s Health to answer this important question.

How will enterprise software giant SAP help startups transform health and wellness? In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers advice to entrepreneurs, and explains why his organization is so eager to work with StartUp Health’s Global Army of Health Transformers. GUEST: Bill McDermott, SAP HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA IN THIS EPISODE: From the Deli to SAP Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive StartUp Health and SAP Access our blog here: https://medium.com/p/87b9cf87834c

Health innovation leaders chat at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about how their individual projects and institutions are rethinking health and healthcare with a shared goal of improving health and delivering the highest quality level of care. INTRODUCTION: Jay Sullivan, DLA Piper GUESTS: Esther Dyson, The Way to Wellville; David Feinberg, MD, Geisinger Health; Richard Zane, MD, UCHealth HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA Show Notes and Key Takeaways can be found here: https://medium.com/p/2d0450c18972)

In this latest episode of StartUp Health NOW!, thought leaders from the world's largest health systems and health technology companies gather at the StartUp Health Festival to engage in an interesting conversation around digital disruption and its effect on patients’ lives. GUESTS: Steven Nelson, Anthem; Clark Golestani, Merck; Karl Hick, Shire; Matthew Collier, Accenture; Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health HOST: Anne O'Riordan, Accenture LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA IN THIS EPISODE: The Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Digital Disruption: Why Now Is Important The Digital and Value Age: What It Means to the Consumer

In this Fireside Chat, Jonathan Bush, CEO & Co-founder of athenahealth, engages in a lively banter with author & Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about building sustainable solutions to drive healthcare costs down. GUEST: Jonathan Bush, athenahealth HOST: Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA IN THIS EPISODE: Driving Healthcare Costs Down: Cost to Zero Moonshots Bending the Cost Curve Pricing Models to Help Drive Costs Down

Dr. J. Craig Venter, Founder and Executive Chairman of Human Longevity, Inc., delivers a fascinating fireside chat on Longevity Moonshots at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival about interpreting genomics in a fundamentally new way, not just to make people live longer, but to have a healthy life. GUEST: J. Craig Venter, PhD, Human Longevity, Inc. HOST: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy LOCATION: 2017 StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA IN THIS EPISODE: Dr. J. Craig Venter & Human Longevity, Inc. The Health Nucleus Longevity Moonshots

Mike Pellini, MD, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Foundation Medicine, sits down with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes at the 2017 StartUp Health Festival for a Fireside Chat on analyzing tumors through genome sequencing and how new innovations are helping to advance the way physicians can treat cancer and potentially cure all diseases. GUEST: Mike Pellini, MD, Foundation Medicine HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA IN THIS EPISODE: Mike Pellini and Foundation Medicine’s Moonshot Curing All Diseases - A Bold Goal Mike and StartUp Health - An Interesting Connection

Melanie Evans, health reporter for the Wall Street Journal, moderates a lively Fireside Chat with Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic; Steven J. Corwin, MD, CEO, NY-Presbyterian Hospital; and Jena Hausmann, CEO & President, Children’s Hospital Colorado, on ways in which hospitals and providers can provide quality care to everyone, regardless of income or vulnerability. GUESTS: Dr. Toby Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Steven J. Corwin, NY-Presbyterian Hospital, Jena Hausmann, Children’s Hospital Colorado HOST: Melanie Evans, Wall Street Journal LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

Wayne Kimmel, Managing Partner at SeventySix Capital, talks about his decision to become a venture capitalist, raising his first fund, his advice on building your network “one business card at a time” and his new book, ‘Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel.’ GUEST: Wayne Kimmel, SeventySix Capital HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Studio, StartUp Health Village, New York, NY IN THIS EPISODE: Deciding to Become a Venture Capitalist Raising His First Fund “Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel” (Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/44879379a801)

Mike Vennera, Chief Information Officer of Independence Blue Cross, discusses how medical trends and changes driven by the ACA are creating big shifts in the healthcare system, exciting innovations he sees in different spaces of the healthcare landscape and how he feels innovators should ‘focus on the basics’. GUEST: Mike Vennera, Independence Blue Cross HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health LOCATION: Accenture HealthTech Challenge Regional Round in NYC Show Notes and Key Takeaways (Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/36d6d3f16262)