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StartUp Health Roundtable: Closing Gap Between Health And Wellness Entrepreneurs and Investors

We are very excited to partner with Morgenthaler, Silicon Valley Bank and Health 2.0 today to present DCtoVC featuring the HIT Showcase and the StartUp Health Roundtable with Wired Editor Thomas Goetz and Venrock Partner Bob Kocher. 

You can watch the event live today via www.livestream.com/startuphealth from 1PM Pacific (4PM Eastern) to 7PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern).  The HIT Showcase will begin at 1PM Pacific and the StartUp Health Roundtable will begin at 5PM Pacific.

Please tweet questions to @startuphealth during the event and use Twitter hastags #dctovc and #startuphealth

Watch live streaming video from startuphealth at livestream.com

Update: Here is the video of the Roundtable:

  

 

 

Join The StartUp Health Revolution and Help Change Health(Care)!

Can you feel that rolling thunder of innovation in the health technology sector?  

You are a part of it so you must feel what we’ve been feeling all summer...a growing momentum brought about by health and wellness entrepreneurs, health care providers, government officials, smart investors, and even Fortune 500 leaders from Silicon Valley, to the Mid West, and up the East Coast from DC through NYC to Boston!

At StartUp Health, our initiative to support and help build 1,000 sustainable health and wellness companies in the next 10 years, we knew there was something big going on with health innovation, but we never would have predicted the depth, breadth and inspiring passion of the fast growing community that is emerging among health start ups.  Having the opportunity to meet with so many of you at conferences, our StartUp Health Roundtables, Health 2.0 Meet-ups and in our new community StartUp Health Office Hours, we’ve been blown away by the vitality and energy of so many in this community since we launched StartUp Health on June 9th.  To date, more than 650 entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and organizations have joined the movement and taken The StartUp Health Pledge to support the ecosystem; more than 100 entrepreneurs have applied to participate in the StartUp Health Academy and already more than 50 startups have attended office hours receiving StartUp Health mentorship.

But this is just the beginning.  We are busy organizing several community events based on feedback and requests from so many of you and we have several big announcements to come.  We hope you are as inspired as we are by the people coming together to support and put on these events.  Please RSVP today as many of the events are already near or at capacity.

STARTUP HEALTH FALL EVENT CALENDAR

 

GE Healthymagination's “Accelerating Cancer Innovation” Summit

  Steven Krein, Co-founder of StartUp Health, was honored to join GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, Tim O’Reilly, Kleiner Perkins, Venrock, Susan G Komen for the Cure and other thought leaders yesterday to discuss new cancer commitments and big ideas that combine innovation and the power of collaboration to transform the way we detect, diagnose, and treat breast and other cancers.  You can learn more about the event and challenge here.

 

DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase and StartUp Health Roundtable

(300 people already registered, space is limited)

StartUp Health is pleased to have partnered with Morgenthaler, Silicon Valley Bank and Health 2.0 to bring you a combined DCtoVC HIT StartUp Showcase and StartUp Health Roundtable event. StartUp Health participated in selecting 10 healthtech startups that will present at the DC to VC HIT Startup Showcase where they will be judged by a panel of health IT luminaries, and live voting by the audience. Matthew Holt of Health 2.0. will emcee. Following the DCtoVC portion of the event at 4:30pm, you won’t want to miss the next StartUp Health Roundtable "Bridging the Gap between Health and Wellness Entrepreneurs and Investors" moderated by Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor at Wired magazine and the author of The Decision Tree, and Bob Kocher, Partner at Venrock and former Special Assistant to President Obama for Healthcare and Economic policy. The event will be followed by a Wine Reception hosted by Silicon Valley Bank.

Date/Time: September 22, 2011 (DCtoVC Startup Showcase begins at 12pm PST. StartUp Health Roundtable begins at 4:30, followed by a Wine Reception at 7pm)

Location: Microsoft Campus, Building 1, Mountain View, CA

Request a Free Invite to BOTH the DCtoVC and StartUp Health Roundtable Events: Email [email protected] (Invitations to the combined event are available on first come-first served basis. Please include include your name, title and organization) 

RSVP for StartUp Health Roundtable ONLY, please visit http://bit.ly/nZjYSd

 

New York Venture Capital Association's Ingenuity 2011 in NYC
StartUp Health is proud to be a Health Track partner and support the New York Venture Capital Association's annual conference "Ingenuity 2011". Six healthtech startups from NYC will have a chance to present in front of a large audience of VCs and investors. One of the goals of this year’s event is to position New York as a major hotspot of health tech entrepreneurship.

Date: October 5-6

Location: SOHO, NYC

Register:  http://www.nyvca.org/ingenuity2011/

StartUp Health Roundtable #3 in NYC (80 people already registered; Space limited)
A Moderated discussion by Todd Park, CTO of US Department of Health & Human Services and an opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs and HIT luminaries to connect.

Date/Time: November 8, 2011 (6:30 PM to 9 PM EST)

Location: New York, NY

RSVP:  http://bit.ly/p7ShgJ

StartUp Health Roundtable #4: The mHealth Summit in Washington, DC
StartUp Health comes to Washington at the mHealth Summit. In addition to hosting our 4th Roundtable during the Summit, we're proud to be an organizing partner for the first The StartUp Pavilion featuring innovations from 40+ mobile health and wellness startups.

Date/Time: December 5, 2011 (12:30 PM EST)

Location: Washington DC

RSVP:  http://bit.ly/nprlnp 

How You Can Get Involved with StartUp Health:

• Entrepreneurs - Apply to the StartUp Health Academy: http://on.fb.me/ooCzP8
• Investors, Mentor and Organizations: Become a StartUp Health Partner: http://on.fb.me/q59k0Q
• Recent Press about StartUp Health
• Contact us at [email protected] with any questions

Please Vote for SXSW Panel "StartUp Health: Transforming Health in America" Featuring Esther Dyson and Jerry Levin

We couldn't be more excited about the panel we are organizing for next year's SXSW.  But we need your vote to make sure our panel is selected!

We've titled the session StartUp Health: Transforming Health in America!

Click Here to Vote 

Topic Description 

Legendary CEO Jerry Levin will be interviewed by futurist Esther Dyson, one of the most active health and wellness angel investors in the US. Esther will engage Jerry and the audience in a thought provoking discussion on how entrepreneurs are the solution to changing healthcare in our country and how to establish the entrepreneurship culture throughout the nation in sectors like health and wellness. They will discuss how can entrepreneurs, investors, healthcare professionals and organizations can be collaborate in this revolution.

Questions Answered

1. Why right now is the best time in history to be a health and wellness entrepreneur
2. How to access long-term support, guidance and high quality mentoring as a health and wellness entrepreneur
3. How to access sector-specific investors and stage-appropriate capital
4. How to collaborate with a community of like-minded people and organizations
5. How to establish the entrepreneurship culture throughout the nation and inside the health and wellness sector.

Click Here to Vote 

Get Ready for The First StartUp Health Roundtable Featuring Scott Case, Jerry Levin, Esther Dyson, Linda Holliday and Steven Krein

There's only one day left for the first StartUp Health Roundtable taking place tomorrow morning in New York City and via live Webcast.  

There's been a tremendous response since we launched StartUp Health last month and we are getting very excited to present the first StartUp Health Roundtable in less than 24 hours.  As the event is currently over capacity with over 50 people on the waitlist we wanted to share some updated details and the agenda. If you did not RSVP in time you can still participate by watching the event live via the Web at www.startuphealth.com and we will also be posting video of the event in the near future to make it accessible to everyone.  In addition, we will also be presenting your questions to the panel so you can ask them now using this form or tweet them to @startuphealth or use #startuphealth.  

If you did RSVP in time, please arrive early so we can get everyone checked in and the event started on time.  For those who arrive early, Esther Dyson will also be answering questions and networking with entrepreneurs from 7:30 to 8:15...

Roundtable Panelists

Moderator - Scott Case, CEO of StartUp America;

Jerry Levin, Chairman StartUp Health and Director OrganizedWisdom;

Linda Holiday, Co-founder Digitas Health and Angel Investor

Steven Krein, CEO OrganizedWisdom, co-founder StartUp Health

 

Roundtable Agenda

7:30 – 8:00 AM EDT    Check-in, breakfast & networking (meet Esther Dyson)

8:00                            Live Web streaming begins at www.startuphealth.com

8:00 – 8:15                  Welcome and introduction of Startup Health Roadmap
                                  (Steven Krein, CEO of OrganizedWisdom; Co-founder StartUp Health)

8:15 – 8:30                  Roundtable Introductions to Panel

8:30 – 9:00                  Scott Case to moderate Q&A session with panelists 

9:00 – 9:30                  Audience and online Q&A (Tweet @startuphealth or #startuphealth)

9:30                            Video streaming ends

9:30 – 10:00                Networking 

You can learn more about StartUp Health here and watch the live streaming at www.startuphealth.com beginning July 13th, 8AM EDT.

 

How to Create and Manage Expert Health Alerts on OrganizedWisdom (Videos)

OrganizedWisdom recently launched a new service called Expert Health Alerts which makes it easy for anyone to be alerted when physicians, nurses or other health experts share links to resources about a specific health topic online.  People can subscribe to be emailed anytime a specific type of expert (like physcian, surgeon, nurse, advocate, etc.) or anyone of the over 5,000 health and wellness experts on OrganizedWisdom share a resource related to the topic that they want to be alerted about.

To set up these alerts all you have to do is create a free account at OrganizedWisdom and you can then create a health alert on any topic.  You can also refine the focus of alerts you receive by selecting the type of expert (or specific individual expert) and then the frequency you want to be alerted.

Everyday we distribute thousands of different Expert Health Alerts on topics ranging from Parkinson's Disease to Diabetes to Marathon Running Tips packed with useful links and resources that have been shared online only by vetted health experts. We believe this is a huge step in helping people get access to resources that are more credible and useful because they have been shared by trusted health experts.  We also believe this is a more useful way for people to stay up on important health topics that may be important to their family or loved ones.

Watch these videos below to learn how to set up and improve your Expert Health Alerts. You can create as many different alerts as you want and change or delete your alerts at anytime.

How to Create an Expert Health Alert on OrganizedWisdom

 

How to Manage Your Expert Health Alerts

 

"The great thing about internet companies is they can change the nature of the way business is being done..."

Forbes Video Interview with OrganizedWisdom Director Jerry Levin and CEO Steven Krein

OrganizedWisdom director Jerry Levin and CEO Steven Krein recently sat down with Forbes writer Maureen Farrell to speak about OrganizedWisdom, StartUp Health and the importance of innovation in the health and wellness sector.

"The great thing about internet companies is they can change the nature of the way business is being done and to apply that in the health and wellness space is terribly important," says Levin.

Read the full article here. Watch the video interview below.

“Not enough people are being incentivized to go into health and wellness space,” says Jerry Levin.”We’ll take the linkage from the government and corporations to build a platform for entrepreneurs to get financing and mentorship.”

“The Internet is a disruptive technology,” says Levin. “I’ve spent a lifetime seeing it transform and disrupt the media business, but why hasn’t there been that disruption taking place in terms of health and wellness?” 

StartUp Health, the strategic initiative announced last week by OrganizedWisdom, the Deparatment of Health and Human Services and US CTO Aneesh Chopra at the Health Data Initiative Forum, is getting set to support meaningful innovation in the health sector! Click here to find out how you can join the movement to support the health and wellness ecosystem.

 

StartUp Health Announcement at Health Data Initiative Forum (Video)

OrganizedWisdom CEO Steven Krein Announced StartUp Health with US CTO Annesh Chopra and US Department of Health and Human Services at the Health Data Initiative Forum in Washington DC yesterday. Watch the launch presentation here.

 

Read the launch Press Release
Take the StartUp Health Pledge
Sign up for StartUp Health Roundtables 
Visit StartUpHealth.com

U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and OrganizedWisdom Announce StartUp Health

Program Aims to Close the Health Gap by Inspiring, Educating, and Providing Resources for Health and Wellness Entrepreneurs to Build Long-Term Sustainable Businesses

NEW YORK, NY and WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - Jun 9, 2011) - Today, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Health Data Initiative Forum, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and OrganizedWisdom announced StartUp Health, a strategic initiative designed to improve access to capital, education and resources for health and wellness entrepreneurs. Chaired by former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc. and current Director of OrganizedWisdom Jerry Levin, StartUp Health aims to close the Health Gap between entrepreneurs, private investors, corporations, universities, foundations and other stakeholders committed to accelerating meaningful health and wellness innovation. StartUp Health also announced today that it will join the Startup America Partnership, a private sector initiative working in conjunction with the White House to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. StartUp Health's goal is to help entrepreneurs create, fund and build sustainable health and wellness companies by improving access to:

• Long-term support, guidance and mentoring
• Data, technology, tools and other required resources
• Sector-specific investors and stage-appropriate capital
• A collaborative community of like-minded people and organizations
• A talent pool of people dedicated to meaningful innovation in health and wellness

"StartUp Health has a long-term vision of what needs to happen to help foster a vibrant health and wellness system in this country by energizing entrepreneurs," said Jerry Levin. "By building a detailed roadmap for health and wellness entrepreneurs, we aim to provide access to everything and everyone they need to significantly increase their chances of creating a sustainable business. Any entrepreneur who dreams of meaningful innovation in health and wellness deserves access to this roadmap and the critical resources that can reduce the barriers to success, and we intend on making sure that happens."

"I'm honored to participate in the HHS and IOM's Health Data Initiative Forum to share in the exciting announcement of StartUp Health, the latest Startup America Partnership collaborator to unleash new market opportunities with the launch of the StartUp Health Roundtables and the StartUp Health Pledge initiatives," said Aneesh Chopra.

StartUp Health Roundtables

The first initiative for StartUp Health will produce a series of StartUp Health Roundtables, hosted in partnership with organizations like the Startup America Partnership and HHS, to bring together entrepreneurs, investors and organizations to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities in developing a roadmap for health and wellness startups.

The first StartUp Health Roundtable will take place in New York City on July 13th, 2011 and will be moderated by Startup America Partnership CEO Scott Case. The Roundtable will also be broadcast live over the web and viewers will be able to email and tweet their questions for participants. The second StartUp Health Roundtable, called DC to VC, will be hosted by HHS CTO Todd Park and will focus on creating targeted engagements between senior administration officials and entrepreneurs, investors and students. For those interested in requesting an invitation to one of the StartUp Health Roundtables, please visit startuphealth.com for more information.

"Driving American entrepreneurship is critical to creating jobs and sustaining our nation's global leadership," said Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership. "The health and wellness sector is full of entrepreneurs creating innovative new companies, and we are thrilled to host the StartUp Health Roundtable to encourage and support the growth of scalable companies in this industry."

The StartUp Health Pledge

The second initiative, called TheStartUp Health Pledge, has been developed to demonstrate the commitment of those participating in the health and wellness startup ecosystem as an entrepreneur, mentor, investor, business or organization to help elevate the standard of care in America.

"By creating the pledge, we will begin to connect the dots and organize all of the like-minded people and resources dedicated to transforming health and wellness," said Steven Krein, CEO of OrganizedWisdom. The initial entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and government agencies that have pledged their commitment to encourage and participate in the health and wellness ecosystem include U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Startup America Partnership, OrganizedWisdom, Jerry Levin, entrepreneur and philanthropist Esther Dyson, Digitas Health Co-founder Linda Holliday, Health 2.0 co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, and health technology startup accelerators Rock Health and Blueprint Health.

One of the most inspiring examples of a government agency that has visibly pledged its commitment to the health and wellness startup ecosystem is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS, under the leadership of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been focused for the last year on accelerating the use of publicly available health data through HealthData.gov.

"Encouraging entrepreneurship in health and wellness is a key priority of HHS, which is why we've opened up vast amounts of federal consumer health data for public use," said Todd Park. "We hope that others will take the StartUp Health Pledge to help accelerate momentum for innovation and entrepreneurship to improve health and wellness for millions of Americans."

For more information on the StartUp Health, the schedule of StartUp Health Roundtables or to take the StartUp Health Pledge, please visit startuphealth.com.

About StartUp Health

StartUp Health is a strategic initiative started by OrganizedWisdom to inspire, educate, and provide resources for entrepreneurs to build sustainable health and wellness companies. StartUp Health aims to close the "Health Gap" between entrepreneurs, private investors, corporations, universities, foundations and other stakeholders committed to accelerating meaningful health and wellness innovation. Learn more at startuphealth.com or @startuphealth on Twitter.

About OrganizedWisdom

OrganizedWisdom, founded in 2007 in New York City, is on a mission to close the "Health Gap" by inspiring doctors and health experts to leverage new technologies to elevate the standard of care in America. The company provides a mobile toolbox for health experts designed to help people before, during and after a doctor visit and offers people access to free expert health alerts on any health and wellness topic. OrganizedWisdom's investors include leading health, technology, and business minds: Esther Dyson, Roger Ehrenberg, Jason Finger, Linda Holliday, Jerry Levin, Jeff Stewart and Artists and Instigators Ventures. Learn more at organizedwisdom.com.

See original press release: Marketwire

OrganizedWisdom Launches Two Health Apps at Health and Human Services Health Data Initiative Forum in Washington DC

 

Innovative new Apps make government health data more accessible to health professionals so they can help people before, during and after a doctor visit.

America is experiencing a unique moment where multiple trends are converging that finally make rapid innovation possible in health and wellness. Over the past 50 years, innovation in health required an extended period of time and an incredible amount of capital - as well as access to top researchers and scientists. Today, however, recent advances in mobile software development combined with access to vast amounts of freely available public health data have converged to provide entrepreneurs and companies like OrganizedWisdom with unprecedented access to powerful ingredients needed to foster large scale innovation in health and wellness.

This year, the White House through the HHS's Health Data Initiative released a treasure trove of previously locked away national health and wellness data, thus opening up the floodgates for new possibilities in our mission to close the "Health Gap" and making it easier for health professionals to leverage new technologies to improve the standard of care.

In May, in preparation for today’s Health Data Initiative Forum in Washington DC, OrganizedWisdom sponsored an internal company hackathon to challenge our team to come up with new and innovative uses for data now available at HealthData.gov. Using newly-released health data, the team created two apps that integrate with and enhance the company’s Mobile Toolbox for doctors and Expert Health Alerts for patients. The first app, How Healthy Is Your Community?, is a tool that integrates directly with a doctor's mobile toolbox and lets their patients easily search to find the health risks in their area allowing doctors to educate their patients about location-specific health risks. The app presents a clickable Google map by county and provides charts and graphs showing the distribution of health risk factors. Want to know the leading cause of death in Westchester County or how many incidents of lung cancer occurred in Houston, TX, How Healthy Is Your Community? makes it easy to search this data. The second app integrates MedlinePlus’s database of health topics to allow people to receive important health information on more than 800 important health conditions. We’ve integrated this information into our Expert Health Alerts to provide people with a digest of health information when they sign up for a health alert on these important topics.

It is truly amazing to see what other start-ups are also doing with the data now available at HealthData.gov. This is very much just the beginning! 

OrganizedWisdom Improves Expert Profiles With Enhanced Controls And New Features

Over the past several weeks our team has received a tremendous amount of support, feedback and suggestions for how we can keep improving OrganizedWisdom, a free service we are building to connect people with health experts and their wisdom online. 

As we've said many times in the past, we are very early in what we are building and very much in a phase of constant improvement and iteration.  We're an agile company and innovate fast. But because much of what we are doing has never been done before, we continue to learn, optimize, and hopefully improve with each iteration.  And nearly all of the progress we make each day is a result of the feedback and suggestions that come from the many doctors we speak to each day, or people who are asking for better online health solutions. So thank you all!

Here are a few of the recent improvements we've launched to give enhanced controls to health experts with profiles on OrganizedWisdom. There are many more to come in the coming days and weeks...

More Experts Claiming Profiles
There are two ways to get an Expert Profile on OrganizedWisdom. A health expert can apply and be approved by our medical review team to receive their own free customizable profile.  Or experts can be nominated (also free).  Those who are nominated and meet our quality standards and receive a profile can then claim and control their profile at anytime. (For those who do not wish to have a profile even if nominated can of course easily request to be removed at anytime).  

We've improved our notification process greatly in an effort to reach everyone who has been nominated.  We do this by email or Direct Message when possible.  We also tweet people so that they can view their profile to claim it if they want, leave it as is, or have it removed.  While it can be a challenge to reach everyone easily, we are pleased to have more experts claiming their profiles than ever before.

Add or Edit Tags Associated with Links
We tag each resource that is tweeted, or shared in our system, with useful keywords to help organize and categorize links to make them more discoverable by people. Experts who have claimed their profiles are now able to add or remove tags to improve how these links get organized.  This helps make resources more discoverable, and also improves how links get filtered for our Expert Health Alerts. When experts improve their own tags it helps the whole community and anyone searching for that information. 

 

Easily Delete any Resource from Your Contributions Stream
We've made it super simple for any logged in expert to delete links or resources from their contributions streams.

Manage and Control Your Contributions Feeds
Experts can now easily add or delete their own content streams.

Add Your Blog or RSS Feed
In addition to your Twitter account, experts can now easily add their blog and RSS feeds to their profile.  Soon experts will also be able to add their Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook and other sites and easily collect all of their health contributions in one place.  We will automatically organize it, and provide useful analytics and stats, and further distribute the links, posts, articles, and other contributions via our Expert Health Alerts. 

New Disclaimer
We don't have advertising anywhere on profiles but we do have advertising on other areas of OrganizedWisdom.  This is one way our business makes money and how we are able to make this a free service for experts and for people who need access to these experts and their wisdom.

Major Redesign for How We Feature Publishers and the Experts Who Share Their Links
We've done a complete over-hall on how we feature health resources and the experts who share them publicly online designed to increase traffic to publishers and exposure for the heroes who RT and share them publicly for the benefit of others.  We limit the article synopsis to less than 160 characters (just like Google), changed the meta description to be more clear, made the original tweet more prominent to maintain the original context, added additional attribution to both the original publisher/source and those experts who shared the resource.  

We continue to make these types of enhancements sitewide on a daily basis and have more work to do, but are very pleased with initial feedback so far. We welcome your comments and suggestions.  If you are a health expert we hope you will apply.  And if you haven't tried our Expert Health Alerts, please test them out...As always, we are truly thankful for all of your suggestions and support.