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At MVF, we live and breathe healthcare. And every now and then we feel the need to write about it as well! This is a collection of articles, blogs and news posts from our team, our advisors and our partners. Feel free to interact with us here or drop us a line on our social media accounts if something catches your fancy.

WarOnCOVID Pitch Contest – All the Teams

May 5, 2020
5 min

WarOnCOVID Pitch Contest – All the Teams

COVID Might have changed the location but it won’t stop our Crowd of Amazing Innovators! All 41 of the companies that pitched in our #WarOnCovid Virtual challenge. If you would want to get a hold of any of them please reach out to us! Apothēka– Integrates with Electronic Medical Records Systems plus clinical applications and transforms them into secure Blockchain ecosystems to facilitate security, data integrity, and interoperability. Website Navimize– uses proprietary algori

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Watch the Finals and the Winners of each Heat

Apr 21, 2020
3 min

Watch the Finals and the Winners of each Heat

With our championship, this Thursday lets take a look back at the past winners from each heat and the Finals! Heat 1 Helpsy – Helpsy, is a complete, one-stop supportive care solution and the world’s first and only AI-based Symptom And Navigation (SAN) nurse. It provides hands on tools to patients and health care professionals to decrease treatment disruptions and to improve the quality of life and outcomes, while streamlining clinician workflow Website- https://helpsyhealth.c

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Heat 3 of War On COVID-19 Winners

Apr 13, 2020
1 min

Heat 3 of War On COVID-19 Winners

As we wrapped up Heat 3 of the War on COVID we saw some of the stiffest competition to date. Hopefully, by the end of our competition, COVID will be under control but right now there is still a need for companies that can help contain the virus. Heat 4 will be the last one before the championship. Register to watch the event here: https://medmowaroncovidheat4.eventbrite.com Heat 3’s Winners 1. Face2Face Health– is a revolutionary digital platform that provides parents with a

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Announcing- MedStartrDirect

Apr 7, 2020
1 min

Announcing- MedStartrDirect

MedStartr Direct connects buyers and sellers of Medical Supplies and Innovations. Utilizing our long-standing and new, highly-vetted relationships with Medical Suppliers, Innovators, Government Agencies, Institutions, Hospitals, Corporations, and the Crowd that cares about driving innovation in medicine faster, MedStartrDirect facilitates and validates sourcing and implementation quicker and more reliably. Brought to you by the team that developedHealth 2.0 NYC, the first Hea

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The Winners Of Heat 2 In TheWar On COVID Contest And The Announcement Of Heat 3

Apr 7, 2020
1 min

The Winners Of Heat 2 In TheWar On COVID Contest And The Announcement Of Heat 3

Last Week Winners 1st Place -PhenoMx– CT Imaging for COVID-19. CT imaging offers a 97% success rate in diagnosing Coronavirus in less than 2 hours. PhenoMx.co 2nd place -Healthmode – HealthMode Cough uses smartphones that most people already have in their pocket to accurately count coughs, one of the three main symptoms of COVID-19. From patient triage to population health surveillance and vaccine trials, the opportunities for HealthMode Cough to help during this pandemic are

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COVID Heat 2

Apr 1, 2020
1 min

COVID Heat 2

Tomorrow is Heat 2 of WAR ON COVID competition and it’s looking to become a stiff competition. Here are a couple of companies presenting. Health Note is a platform that screens, collects, documents, & triages patient data before an encounter. They work with top hospitals and clinics around the country and are now using their platform to help front-line health care providers fight COVID-19 HealthMode Cough uses smartphones that most people already have in their pocket to accur

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The Winners Of MEDMO MIAMI

Feb 26, 2020
1 min

The Winners Of MEDMO MIAMI

All The Teams The Medstartr team had a great time in the sunny city of Miami! They have a growing health tech scene in Flordia that you should keep your eye on. 7 Great teams pitched their ideas to our judges. The Crowd Pick- Glamo, the uber of haircuts. Using their services you can have a hairstylist/barber at your house in less than 1 hour! They might not seem health-related but they looking to get into nursing homes and hospitals, to offer services to people who can’t get

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Nov 24, 2016
1 min

What is #TrumpCare?

We all have concerns about what the new administration will do to our healthcare system which has been changing so rapidly for the last six years. Will the train be derailed or is a switch coming? Will Trump and the Republicans do as they have promised so many times and repeal and replace Obamacare, including its most popular aspects like coverage for adult children and an extra 20 million people who can get insurance, pre-existing conditions and the exchanges? Let’s discu

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Dec 4, 2015
2 min

MedStartr Momentum 2015 Results

For Immediate Release MedStartr announces winners in first full day conference by leading healthcare technology platform New York, NY – December 4, 2015 — Winning healthcare technology startups were announced today of the MedStartr Momentum 2015 Conference by Alex Fair, CEO of MedStartr. Medical startups selected as winners by an expert panels of judges are: Careset, Care+Wear, Medtimers and Kenkodo. More than 200 attended the conference held at NYC’s Microsoft Technology Cen

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Nov 17, 2015
2 min

10 Rules for Driving Innovation in Healthcare – Rule # 10 – Be in the right place

In preparation for our first full day event, MedStartr Momentum 2015 we are writing out our ten secrets to Healthcare Innovation Success. After helping hundreds of new ideas get to market faster, we have learned a few things about what works in driving innovation in our industry. We will release them one a day to make them more easily digestible. Enjoy! Rule # 10: Be in the right place Wayne Gretsky said that he wasn’t the fastest player or the best puck handler, but he alway

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Do you know your risk for Heart Disease?

Apr 16, 2014
1 min

Do you know your risk for Heart Disease?

How many of you have been affected by heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular complications? Do you know someone who has had a heart attack, stroke, or worse – lost their life because of an undetected heart condition? At Cre8MDI we have been affected by heart disease, both personally and through family members’ experiences. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America and stroke, another cardiovascular disease (CVD), fourth on the list. Both are preventable th

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Crowds Cure Terrorism?

Apr 20, 2013
4 min

Crowds Cure Terrorism?

I am perpetually amazed by the power of crowds. In light of how the Boston Marathon Bombing played out, powered by mobile and private videography, reddit crowd-based analysis, and a man checking his backyard – all well coordinated by federal, state, and local experts, one can’t help but be inspired. Can Crowds Really Cure Terrorism? I know it is infinite hubris to even think this, especially living in New York and having watched a plane crash into WTC Tower # 2 from a rooftop

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Video Interview of Alex Fair

Apr 9, 2013
1 min

Video Interview of Alex Fair

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

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Using Health as a Platform of Peace in the Heart of Darkness

Jan 16, 2013
5 min

Using Health as a Platform of Peace in the Heart of Darkness

— By Dominique Vidale-Plaza, founder of Build Hope, & blogger of development, healthcare, and despair in the the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dominique Vidale-Plaza, one of our Global MedStartrs. See her project by clicking her photo here. I had studied the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tumultuous past for years, hoping to come to a better understanding of this nation that is known as the “heart of darkness”. But books, blogs and theories couldn’t compare to what I learned

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Jan 2, 2013
3 min

Why Are Patients and Social Media Especially Important In Healthcare?

(A guest post by Denise Silber & Michael Seres, editing by Komal Garewal & Courtney Berkholtz) Social Media is contributing to the improvement of care in ways that were previously unexplored, by bringing together the numerous and geographically diverse stakeholders involved in healthcare. Social Media is bringing patients with similar issues together for mutual support. Social Media is giving patients a voice to help change healthcare policy. Social Media is giving patients n

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Aetna Sponsors Healthcare Revolution: San Francisco!

Sep 27, 2012
1 min

Aetna Sponsors Healthcare Revolution: San Francisco!

Thank you to our first Partner Sponsor, Aetna for our MedStartr Rocks San Francisco event! Find, Fund, and have some Fun with us here! #crowdfunding #Aetna #CorporateInnovationServices #health20 #innovation #FasterInnovation #healthcare #events

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Sep 7, 2012
1 min

Be My #CFF!

Welcome to CrowdFunder Friday! Yup, so begins the weekend when most of us startup Guys and Gals get to doing what is really important – changing the world with our startup FULL TIME for two days without any pesky school or day job stuff bugging us. This week (the first CFF post ever) I wanted to highlight the Fun / Funny Crowdfunding video you could watch 100 times and still be amused. The $1 Shave club is a classic and one of the best ever. Be as cool as these guys and you

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Nothing Beats a Great Project with Legs!

Jul 17, 2012
1 min

Nothing Beats a Great Project with Legs!

One Med Forum. The Audience was a group of investors and I asked the crowd: “Would a successful project on MedStartr make you more likely or less likely to invest in a company?” I was pleased to see 20 hands went up for “More” and only one went up for “Less.” So if your project has legs, it will be very attractive to investors. I was not that surprised, having often picked stocks by who has great products and watching or surveying other shoppers, much like Peter Lynch talk

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Born on the 4th of July

Jul 8, 2012
1 min

Born on the 4th of July

Born on the 4th of July #crowdfunding #getfunded #startup #hacking #dental #doctor #entrepreneurship #medical #funding #healthcare #patient

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Jul 8, 2012
1 min

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I LOVE Avado, not just because Dave Chase is a great entrepreneur, but because of what it stands for. Avado is the name of a town in Italy where the Men live as long as the Women. Maybe it is due to long walks like these guys are on or their diet, but whatever it is, it is something that bears closer inspection. Avado enables that inspection in many interesting ways. See Dave’s project on MedStartr and Fund the Care Innovations You care about. I did already! #meaningfulu

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