How Health Tech Startups Are Changing Healthcare The healthcare industry is on the cusp of being completely disrupted by technology. Unfortunately, technology adoption in healthcare is sluggish due to strict government regulations and pushback from providers who have...
Multiple barriers exist today that prevent people from properly accessing the healthcare they need, as shown below in Figure 1. These barriers include: cost, distance to care, time constraints and patient embarrassment (see “DTC: Bridging Treatment Gaps” for a...
Launching a healthcare startup can be exhilarating. Picking a name. Signing off on a logo design. Ordering business cards. Sharing your excitement with investors. Strategizing about growth. What’s missing from this list? It’s people— And all the associated...
Author: Brian Dougherty, Jumpstart Foundry Chief Operations Officer One of the biggest challenges of transforming a health startup into a successful business is focus. Ensuring that employees are focusing time and energy on the right objectives and milestones becomes...
The myriad problems that exist in healthcare have prompted new health startups to carve out increasingly smaller and more specialized niches. With all of these options for health innovation, what are the top healthcare venture capitalists really looking to invest in?...
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...
