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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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At Vator Splash Health: what happens if the AHCA passes?

by Steven Loeb, March 21, 2017

Vator Splash Health will be taking place on March 23 in San Francisco

Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder & CEO of Oscar Health), Brian Singerman (Partner, Founders Fund), Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), J. Craig Venter (Human Longevity), Lynne Chou (Partner, Kleiner Perkins), Michael Dixon (Sequoia Capital), Patrick Chung (Xfund), Check out the full lineup and register for tickets before they jump! ...

Analytics is the key to unlocking optimized health

by Michelle Snyder, March 16, 2017

Leveraging data to create personalized experiences that drive engagement

Over three trillion dollars is spent on (what we call) healthcare in the U.S. every year. However, the reality is that the vast majority of that money is being spent on “sickcare” – trying to make people better after they have become ill. But by only considering an individual’s health when they’re sick, we’re not considering many significant factors. ...

Building a 'full-stack' healthcare disruptor

by Sami Inkinen, March 15, 2017

Technology-enabled care delivery will one day create a 10x improvement in care efficiency

[Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. Check out the full lineup and register for tickets before they jump! If you want to invest as little as $2500 in our healthtech startup cohort, join the Vator Investment Club (VIC). Sami Inkinen, Founder and CEO of Virta Health and author of this article will also be speaking!] Recently, Silicon Valley ...

How technology is changing the doctor/patient relationship

by Steven Loeb, March 9, 2017

Ian Shakil, Ron Gutman, Sami Inkinen and Arnaud Bernaert will discuss at Splash Health on March 23

Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco, and we're going to have some great speakers, including Mario Schlosser, the Founder & CEO of Oscar Health; Brian Singerman, Partner at Founders Fund; Steve Jurvetson from Draper Fisher Jurvetson; J. Craig Venter from Human Longevity; and Lynne Chou, Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Topics covered will include the future of care, the elimination of ...

16 early-stage healthtech startups you need to know

by Ronny Kerr, February 27, 2017

From online marketplaces to wearables for mothers, these are the fastest-growing healthtech startups

The most well-funded healthtech startups

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 27, 2017

CEOs and founders of Oscar Health, Prelude Fertility and Human Longevity on stage at Splash Health

We're thrilled to have the founders and CEOs of the most well-funded healthtech startups join us on stage at our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables conference on March 23, 2017 in San Francisco. They are: Mario Schlosser, co-Founder and CEO of Oscar Health, Craig Venter, co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Human Longevity, and Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO of Prelude ...

The high-tech baby boom and the business of infertility

by Steven Loeb, December 15, 2016

Fertility has traditionally not been covered by insurance, and has seen less funding for research

Correction: this article inaccurately named Piraye Beim as Director of Celmatix Healthcare is a big space, and one with many individual parts, not all areas of which are treated equally. Certain diseases, like cancer, are well-funded and researched, while others are given short shrift. That includes fertility treatment, which has traditionally not been covered by insurance, and not received the same amount ...

What does the future of healthcare look like?

by Steven Loeb, November 23, 2016

Top VCs and enteprenuers from the healthcare space tell me what's hot and what's coming

Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), J. Craig Venter (Human Longevity), Patrick Chung (XFund), Risa Stack (GE Ventures), Paul Willard (Subtraction Capital), Julie Papanek (Canaan Partners) and more. Check out the full lineup and register for tickets before they jump! If you’re a healthcare startup and you’re interested in being part of our competition, learn more ...

Lighthouse is changing the way we care for diabetes patients

by Steven Loeb, April 2, 2016

Lighthouse won the Judge's Award at Vator Splash Health in February

At Vator's Splash Health event last month, we crowned three winners: our Judges Winner, our Honorable Mention winner and the People's Choice, which was voted on by members of our audience. The Judge's winner was Lighthouse. Lighthouse is a digital patient care program that brings together patients, their primary physician, extended care providers and our dedicated team of nurses, counselors and dietitians that will ...

Carrum Health wants to change the way we purchase healthcare

by Steven Loeb, March 17, 2016

Carrum was the winner of the People's Choice Award at Vator's Splash Health event last month

At Vator's Splash Health event last month, we crowned three winners: our Judges Winner, our Honorable Mention winner and the People's Choice, who was voted on by members of our audience. The People's Choice winner was Carrum Health, a bundled payments platform for planned surgeries. Through the company's platform, self-insured employers,and their employees, can purchase planned surgeries directly from top-quality providers. In doing so, ...

Why direct-to-consumer models are hard in healthcare

by Steven Loeb, February 29, 2016

Rather than going directly to consumers, the model is now B2B2C, with another business in the middle

Digital healthcare has been a rising space in the last few years, but while the structural and cultural change in the healthtech industry is moving toward B2C, where companies sell directly to the consumer, we're still in a B2B2C world, where an insurance company, or an employer, still stands in between. This topic was brought up multiple times during Vator's ...

Don’t say you’re going to be the “Uber of Healthcare”

by Ronny Kerr, February 25, 2016

The most interesting healthtech subsectors, advice for pitching a VC, and the financial market

The eleventh session of the day at Vator Splash Health 2016 this week brought several investors on stage to discuss finance in the digital health ecosystem. Panelists (left to right above) included Tony Miller (Managing Partner, Lemhi Ventures), Steve Barsh (Chief Innovation Officer, Dreamit Ventures), Nancy Brown (Partner, Oak HC/FT), Jack Young (Partner, Qualcomm Life Fund), Dave Schulte (Partner, McKesson ...

See how Vator Splash Heath played out on Twitter

by Steven Loeb, February 23, 2016

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

Vator held its annual Splash Health event on Tuesday, 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: Excited to be ...

The winner of Vator Splash Health is LIGHTHOUSE!

by Steven Loeb, February 23, 2016

Congrats to People's Choice winner Carrum Health, and Honorable Mention winner Bloom Technologies

The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have a winner for this year's Vator Splash Health is... LIGHTHOUSE. LIGHTHOUSE, from the American Diabetes Association, is a digital patient care program that brings together patients, their primary physician, extended care providers and our dedicated team of nurses, counselors and dietitians that will re-write the standards of ...

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