Fireside Chat with Dr. Jessica Mega at the StartUp Health Festival — “We grew out of Google and Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information,” said Jessica Mega, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Verily Life Sciences. …

Cyclica’s Goal to Help Scientists More Efficiently Discover Safer and More Effective Medicines — “We want to bring technology to scientists so that we can augment their decision-making on what drugs to invest their time, knowledge, and resources in,” said Naheed Kurji, ‎President & CEO, Cyclica. …

“The vision for Novartis is going to be to build an inspired, empowered company that wants to re-imagine medicine,” said Vas Narasimhan, MD, CEO of Novartis. …

Dr. Rasu Shrestha on Creating a Perfect Mix of Innovation and Empathy at UPMC — “UPMC is a large payor/provider system. 3.5 million lives that we cover on the payor side. On the provider side, upwards of 30 plus hospitals, over 4,000 physicians, with 8,000 employees. 16 billion dollars in annual revenue,” explained Rasu Shrestha, MD, Chief Innovation Officer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center…

“What we’re looking to do is give access to every individual in the world, the access to clinically proven, self healing techniques.” said Erin McCloskey, CEO & Co-founder, E=mc2 no limits…. “Our aim is to bring in these programs to places where they don’t already exist.” I had a…

Digital health trends poised to transform the industry in 2018 and beyond — At StartUp Health, we work with hundreds of Health Transformers, entrepreneurs and innovators every year — from founders bootstrapping their way to success, to moonshot visionaries reshaping the future, to CEOs of the world’s largest companies trying to figure out how to keep pace with a dynamic landscape. It’s a…

My Conversation With Data-ism Author Steve Lohr Earlier this month at the StartUp Health Village in Manhattan, I had a chance to sit down with Steve Lohr, reporter at the New York Times and author of Data-ism. We discussed the growth of big data and the need for its expansion…

StartUp Health Insights: Digital Health Funding Rankings Q1 2017 If the first quarter of 2017 is any indication of what’s to come, 2017 is going to be another important year for digital health funding. Among this quarter’s most notable developments, the population health sector saw a large number of deals, Los Angeles emerged as a hotspot of digital health…