 | | Health | July 08, 2016 |
Startup Highlight: BTech Innovation
One of the main use cases for 3D printing in health care is obviously in the arena of orthopedics. BTech Innovation is making hyper-patient-specific implants using 3D printing technologies from the software/mapping side to the material printing side. This will certainly be a company to watch in the space.
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Quote of the Week
"Well-designed technology solutions can provide ancillary support, skills training, and feedback to patients. When easily accessible, it can help patients navigate confusing health systems and monitor their conditions outside the clinic, reducing readmission rates to EDs and easing the patient volume at overloaded clinics. Building and adding to the evidence base for smart, well-designed, cost-effective digital health innovations in medically vulnerable populations has the potential to revolutionize federal reimbursement models, thereby generating alternative funding streams for such innovations. Best of all, well-designed, efficacious interventions help patients achieve health."
- Vanessa Mason, MPH
| Want the latest startup news and resources from Techstars?  Get the scoop on our newest accelerator companies and founders, find out when new program applications open, learn about our events, and much, much more! Sign up here! | | Startup Health - Startup Health Startup Health released their latest funding report for digital health, and the sector seems to have received even more funding than the record year in 2014 (according to SH's data). Most of the data is pretty self-explanatory, nothing incredibly eye-catching here, but I would still read through it to see the data broken down. | | Lisa Suennen - Health Evolution Summit I have spoken about the trend towards corporate VCs (CVCs) in this digest before, but here the incredibly smart Lisa Suennen breaks down the trends in corporate investing in health care. In fact, 24.4% of all venture deals in med device and biotech had CVC participation in 2015. There is a lot more to pull out from this report (like the fact that these CVCs are predominately focused on HIT and health services) so I recommend going through it yourself, you won't be disappointed. | | Vanessa Mason, MPH - Medium This is the introduction to what will be an amazing 5-part series from Vanessa Mason on innovating within medically vulnerable populations. Technologies have generally innovated for the higher end of the income spectrum, but as Vanessa points out, in health care we need to innovate for those populations that are most at risk to add extra costs to our system. The issue is that, historically, these populations also had low access to technology. With rising technology adoption among at risk communities, Vanessa sees a opportunity to create digital solutions here. I'll be posting the coming 4 parts of the series in the coming weeks! | | Akhsar Kharebov - SVHealth If you happen to be in the Bay Area on Tuesday 7/19, I highly recommend you head to Plug and Play down in Silicon Valley to see Skip Fleshman talk at this month's SVHealth Event. The event is from 6pm - 8pm on Tuesday 7/19 with networking from 6pm - 7pm. | | Jordan Schlain, MD - Tincture Heard the term MACRA thrown around, but not quite sure what folks are talking about? Check out Dr. Schlain's 3-part series interviewing CMS' Andy Slavitt on the subject to get a quick crash course on what CHIP's re-authorization means for the industry. Part 1 is above.
Part 2 can be found here, and Part 3 here.
| | Moira Weigel - The Guardian This week in ridiculous startups - a home sperm testing kit that will ship for $159.99 this October. While I understand the market for this, I can't help but ask myself: When has the quantified self movement gone too far? | | | 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. | | |
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