Vator innovation series

The Future of Healthcare

A look at innovations in digital health to improve health outcomes, reduce costs and make healthcare more accessible.

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Your local CVS store may soon be a health clinic, insurer... and fitness center

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 7, 2017

It’s the Kaiser model, but it could be even more

Recently, CVS Health bought Aetna for nearly $70 billion - the biggest deal this year. If approved, it would be the biggest healthcare combination in history and bring us closer to a new-world order in which insurance companies start to think of the “giving” and “preventative” part of care vs just the financing of it. The combination of one of ...

Top healthtech VCs are investing heavily in technologies that are advancing value-based care models

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 13, 2017

What’s the criteria they’re considering? Where are value-based care models working?

Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health community to give us their thoughts about the state of the healthcare system. The topic covered was value-based care: the road to accountable healthcare economics. Value-based care is when caregivers are paid on the ...

Who takes on risk in a value-based care model?

by Steven Loeb, September 20, 2017

At SplashX, it was discussed how patients and providers can take on some risk in emerging models

Last week, Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health community to give us their thoughts about the state of the healthcare system. The topic covered was value-based care: the road to accountable healthcare economics. Value-based care is when caregivers are paid on ...

What are value-based care models that work?

by Steven Loeb, September 19, 2017

At SplashX, healthcare investors discussed emerging value based business models

Last Friday, Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health community to give us their thoughts about the state of the healthcare system. The topic covered was value-based care: the road to accountable healthcare economics. Value-based care is when caregivers are paid on ...

Do physicians make less in a value-based care model?

by Steven Loeb, September 18, 2017

At SplashX, doctors and providers discussed how they are compensated for value based care

At SplashX: Business imperative vs policy incentive

by Steven Loeb, September 15, 2017

Healthcare investors were asked what they want to see before they invest in value based care

Last night, Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health community to give us their thoughts about the state of the healthcare system. The topic covered was value-based care: the road to accountable healthcare economics. Value-based care is when caregivers are ...

Digital health investing on track to hit record year in 2017

by Steven Loeb, July 11, 2017

There was $6.5B invested in the first half of 2017, already making it the third biggest year ever

Digital health has been one of the most exciting spaces in tech over the last few years, with advancements in wearables, telahealth, big data and electronic health records. These are changes that will have a huge effect, not only on the lives of millions of people, but on the entire U.S. economy. There has been an explosion in digital health ...

Senate healthcare bill: the healthtech community speaks out

by Steven Loeb, June 28, 2017

A vote on the bill has now been delayed in order to get conservative Republicans on board

There are few issues more contentious in our politics than healthcare, and for good reason. It represents literal life and death for millions of people, and they rightfully get scared when anyone tries to change it. Right now, the Republicans in the Senate are looking to pass the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which is basically an updated version of the American Healthcare ...

Welltok's Michelle Snyder reveals new healthcare paradigm

by Reena A Jadhav, June 20, 2017

Keys to building a consumer centered healthcare platform: Interview with Reena Jadhav

Reena Jadhav interviewed Michelle Snyder of Welltok at Vator Splash Health on the new paradigm of building a consumer centric healthcare platform. Welltok is a leading consumer health enterprise SaaS company with a mission to empower consumers to achieve and sustain their optimal health. As a health optimization platform they reward consumers. Check out the interview to learn: - What is the secret to working with ...

Podcast: Dr. Robert Pearl on his new book Mistreated

by Reena A Jadhav, June 13, 2017

Innovation opportunities in Digital Health & the Truth about why we are not getting care we deserve

Reena Jadhav interview with Dr. Pearl, who offers every American critical information on how to get better healthcare as a consumer and how to pick the right doctor among other key insights. Packed with revealing truth about our healthcare crisis, how it effects every one of us and what can we do to fix it. You can read the show ...

Video: Peter Hames, CEO Big Health, on Digital Medicine and Sleepio

by Reena A Jadhav, June 13, 2017

Reena Jadhav interviews Peter on emergence of evidence based non drug therapy at scale

Reena Jadhav interviews Peter Hames, CEO of Big Health about emergence of "Digital Medicine" and Big Heallth's first product Sleepio, which addresses sleep problems digitally to help manage the deeper issues of depression and anxiety. They have 18 peer review papers and 18 randomized control studies to demonstrate that Sleepio works as well as non digital therapeutics. Key interview highlights: ...

Video:Jeffrey Brewer on diabetes management via smart device

by Reena A Jadhav, June 5, 2017

Reena Jadhav interviews Founder & CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical

Reena Jadhav interviews Jeffrey Brewer, Founder CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical who has developed an automated insulin delivery system connected to a smartphone and the cloud, making it easier to take insulin in the safest way possible while cutting costs. In this interview he shares: 1. What motivated him to start Bigfoot Biomedical (his personal story is truly inspiring!) 2. ...

Video: Promoting human-centered care

by Mitos Suson, April 26, 2017

There is a positive economic impact that comes from improved healthy living and behaviors

At our Vator Splash Health 2017 event last March 23, Stephanie Lee (Senior Technology Reporter, BuzzFeed) moderated the panel with Michelle Snyder (CMO, Welltok), Sean Duffy (Founder & CEO, Omada Health), Peter Hames (Founder & CEO, Big Health), and Stephanie Tilenius (Founder & CEO, Vida Health) on Preventative, human-centered care and promoting a healthy lifestyle; There is a positive economic impact that comes from improved ...

Iris Plans brings ACP to those in need with video-based tech

by Steven Loeb, April 20, 2017

The company won first prize at Vator's Splash Health event last month

Unlike like planning for retirement, a child’s education, or a wedding, planning for future healthcare has, until only recently., been pretty rare. Healthcare planning, known clinically as Advance Care Planning (ACP), has been shown to keep patients more in control of their healthcare, often resulting in better care, higher quality of life, reduced stress for the patient and their family, ...

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