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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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, ...

Blumio gets noticed for its cuffless blood pressure monitor

by Steven Loeb, April 11, 2017

The company won the runner up prize at Vator's Splash Health event last month

High blood pressure and hypertension are serious problems. Hypertension is expected to affect 42 percent of the population in the United States by 2035 and every year there are 1.3 million new people who develop it. Right now, only 50 people with hypertension have it under control. The treatment for hypertension currently isn't great either, especially when it comes to ...

Video: How tech is changing the doctor's office

by Mitos Suson, April 7, 2017

Advances in wearables, augmented reality, mobile and our interaction with our physicians

At our Vator Splash Health 2017 event last March 23, Sarah Buhr (Reporter, TechCrunch) moderated the panel with Ian Shakil (Founder & CEO, Augmedix), Ron Gutman (Founder & CEO, HealthTap), Sami Inkinen (Founder& CEO, Virta Health), Arnaud Bernaert (Head of Global Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum) on The doctor will see you now; Advances in wearables, augmented reality, mobile and how it’s changing our ...

What digital health sectors are hot and which are overhyped?

by Steven Loeb, March 29, 2017

VCs from Sequoia, 500 Startups, Canvas and McKesson weighed in at Vator Splash Health

At Vator Splash Health last week, we assembled a group of top healthcare venture capitalists to give us their take on the current market. Specifically: what is overhyped, and what's up and coming in the space. Panelists included Rebecca Lynn, Partner at Canvas Ventures; Dave Schulte, Partner at McKesson Ventures; Michael Dixon, Partner at Sequoia Capital, and Rebecca Woodcock, Entrepreneur in Residence at 500 Startups. "What ...

Trumpcare might have saved Obamacare exchanges

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 25, 2017

So now we have: Obamacare markets still imploding, prices still rising, choices still disappearing

We held our Vator Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables event last week, which drew an incredible lineup, including Dr. Craig Venter, one of the first to sequence the human genome, and Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO of Oscar Health, the five-year-old insurance upstart that's raised some $700 million. At the time, the House was set to vote on the repeal ...

See how Vator Splash Health 2017 played out on Twitter

by Steven Loeb, March 24, 2017

Thank you to all of those who attended Vator Splash Health and made it great!

Vator held its annual Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017 event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companies great, but so were all of our audience members, who helped us to preserved the memory of the event on Twitter forever. Here are some highlights from our attendees on Twitter: ...

The winner of Vator Splash Health is... Iris Plans!

by Steven Loeb, March 23, 2017

Congratulations to our runner up: Blumio!

The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have a winner for this year's Vator Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017. Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters, and one of the sponsors and judges of the competition, announced the winner late Thursday. Upon opening the envelope, he said, "And the winner is... La La Land!!!!" Good one ...

Presenting the finalists for Vator Splash Health!

by Steven Loeb, March 23, 2017

8 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top healthtech VCs!

Vator Splash Health is finally here! And in just a few hours, we'll find out who the winner of our competition is! The winning company, and the runner up, gets about $25,000 of in-kind prizes, a video of their presentation; a bottle of Bread and Butter wine, more TBD; plus sit-down meetings with at least 10 health tech VCs, including Maveron, Canaan Partners, Subtraction Capital, XFund, Kleiner Perkins, ...

Let’s tackle our healthcare crisis now

by Stephanie Tilenius, March 22, 2017

We should be committing more resources toward prevention, rather than reactive medicine

We are in a midst of a crisis in the US. Over 130 million Americans live with a chronic disease. Obesity has become an epidemic - 40% of Americans are obese, 24% of all Americans have at least one diet-related medical condition, 86 million Americans have pre-diabetes, and over 70 million have hypertension. Most of us consume too much fast ...

Personalization via machine learning & outcome-based pricing

by Sean Duffy, March 22, 2017

The future of patient-focused preventive care

Tomorrow, I’ll be joining speakers, panelists, and moderators from across the digital health industry at Vator’s Splash Health, Wellness, and Wearables Conference in San Francisco. My panel will focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle through human-centered preventive care -- as a way to extend lives and reduce healthcare costs. Earlier this month, I argued this type of prevention was the ...

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