Health Reading List | September 25, 2015 |
Startup Highlights: Stitch, TrialMatch, IDoDrugs.Club
TechCrunch Disrupt was this week, and there were a number health care companies that both participated in the Startup Battlefield and the Hackathon. TrialMatch and IDoDrugs were both results of the Hackathon. The former is a solution for matching patients with trials in a more efficient way. The latter pulls from open sources to let patients understand the interactions between drugs they might be taking.
Finally, Stitch got to the final round of the Battlefield because of it's promise to fix care coordination with a Slack-esque, HIPAA compliant communication platform. It's great to see entrepreneurs focusing on health care in the mainstream. On wards and up wards!
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| | Forbes If you didn't hear about Martin Shkreli this week, you were probably on vacation this week. Matthew Herper of Forbes has a great *Long Read* on the former hedge fund manager turned serial biopharma executive. It's definitely worth a read to get both sides of the story. What Shkreli did is obviously horrendous, but it's also quite a normal practice in the field... | | MIT Tech Review Nerve repair is an interesting field and besides traditional autografts, there are few options for severe nerve repair. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used 3D printing technologies to create a nerve repair substitute for rats. Pretty rad use of 3D printing, if I do say so myself. | | Popular Science As we all know, software is quickly eating the world, and especially health care with the rise of precision medicine and genomics. A fun take on the role of software engineering in the brave new world of health care. | | New York Times After the Turing debacle this week, Hilary Clinton came out to say she is going to fix our broken pricing system. This NYT article dives into the reasons her plan may not be the best. | | Harvard Business Review A great HBR piece by Diane E. Meier, MD on how we can define value for palliative patients in the post ACA world. | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy. | | |
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