In recent years, the epidemic of social isolation and loneliness (SIL) has garnered increased attention from researchers, policymakers and the public due to the long-lasting and sometimes detrimental effects SIL can have on a person’s health. In addition to food...
46.6 million American adults suffer from mental illness with only 18.6 million individuals (40%) receiving treatment. Despite treatment, many of these individuals continue to suffer from symptoms of mental illness. For example, 30% of individuals with depression, PTSD...
Cardiometabolic disease costs the US healthcare system 45B dollars every year. Our health system has traditionally approached cardiometabolic disease (heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure) via pharmaceutical treatment and surgery. While these...
How does one define material change in healthcare, especially in an industry that is in such dire need of it? Have you ever noticed that the more healthcare changes, the more it appears to stay exactly the same? This is the recurring theme here at Jumpstart Foundry,...
Millennials are turning to technology to manage their money, so CapitalOne opened banking cafes with all the perks of a coffee shop whilst offering complimentary money coaching and discounts for Capital One Members. Here’s what hospitals and health systems should be...
With people waiting until later in life to have children and fertility treatment being a cost many cannot afford, how can DTC empower patients to get in front of fertility complications that could arise later in life? As women wait longer to have their first child,...
