New York City – December 7, 2017 –  MedStartr, Inc. the healthcare-only crowdfunding and investment platform today announced the winners of MedMo17 Crowd Challenge held at MedStartr Momentum 2017, its annual two-day conference in New York. More than 100 different startups competed throughout the year for cash, investments and in-kind prizes totaling up to $2M, with Valisure, Alertgy, eCaring and Xycrobe taking the top honors in their respective categories. All the winners wil

We helped the New York Chapter run a similar Challenge this Spring and the results were fantastic, especially for the startups.  Like this one, the prizes totaled $25,000 but the finalists raised twice that much in the Crowdfunding Contest.  Yes, that’s right, to win you need to also succeed in getting patients, doctors, and even hospital leaders involved in your idea.  Sounds impossible?  Not on MedStartr.  The winners of the first AHA Open Innovation challenge got over 28 H

Thank you for the overwhelming positive response to the first ever New York City American Heart Association Open Innovation Challenge! An amazing group of ideas have been crowdsourced on MedStartr already, but a number of you had problems with your submissions due to cancelled flights, work and city closures, and Internet connectivity issues. We appreciate that yesterday was the coldest day in 118 years in New York City and the problems it caused for many of you: our entrepre

I always enjoy a good tweetchat and tonight I stopped by #HCSM while trying to avoid some spreadsheet stuff that was boring me.  As usual it was thought provoking which then lead to another interesting idea.  In this case, there was a call from several folks on the chat for a list of “Trusted Patient Resources”.  Online repositories of information or purveyors of advice that patients can rely on. So as the crowdsourcing site for healthcare, we took it upon oursleves to help m

Originally published by Adam Wong / Management and Program Analyst, ONC on HealthIT.gov Drum roll please! The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the National Cancer Institute congratulates Dr. Michelle Longmire and the Medable.com  team for winning the Crowds Care for Cancer Challenge with their submission Together. The challenge asked app developers to create new tools to help survivors manage their cancer care after they have completed

Matchpoint East New York with my friends Unity Stoakes from Startup health and Brad Weinberg from Blueprint Health when Unity noted that the days of the business plan being the first thing people do were over. I could not agree more, especially for early stage companies like many of the ideas that get started on MedStartr. I didn’t write a plan for MedStartr itself until September and we launched the site in July. It’s actually kind of funny. I was headed to San Francisco and

Tim Cook of Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modelling (MLHIM.org) interviewed Alex Fair in April, 2013.  Tim pioneered the MLHIM concept, which is an approach to creating portable concept definitions based on XML Schema in order to facilitate semantic interoperability across the healthcare domain.  He also is a pretty good interviewer.  Great questions.  He also had great audience support and questions from Scott Scowcroft (@sm4hc on twitter) who also stars in this video a

In October we ran our first Showcase.  It went well and we will be doing this periodically.  If you want to enable or sponsor a showcase, please contact us at 530.MEDSTARtr. What is a MedStartr Showcase all about? MedStartr Showcases highlight projects that interest broad audiences in a specific area.  Our first launched just a few weeks ago and is called “Saving a Million Mothers.” The MillionMothers Showcase highlights projects that improve maternal health and save lives.  

Updated 8/25/2013 LinkedIn allows people to create their ideal professional networks. It is a platform for developing yourself as a thought leader and positioning your product or company and content as important in contemporary discussions. A key feature of LinkedIn are its groups — did you know you can share your content in all the groups you’re a member of with just one click?  Just under the video in your project page are a number of links, one of which is linked in.  Just