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Season's Greetings
Have a healthy, happy holiday season and best wishes for a prosperous New Year!
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The MeHI / MassTech Team
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Mass Digital Health Updates
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Governor Baker Announces Mass Digital Health Council
On Tuesday, November 22nd, the Baker-Polito Administration
announced the creation of a Digital Healthcare Council that will advise the administration on the future of the Commonwealth's digital healthcare industry.
The Council will develop a three-year growth plan to confirm Massachusetts as the leading global digital health ecosystem. It is co-chaired by Katie Stebbins, Assistant Secretary of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, and Dr. Jeffrey Leiden, Chairman, President and CEO of Boston-based Vertex. MeHI Director Laurance Stuntz serves as a member of the Council and MeHI will provide management support. The Mass Digital Health Council builds on momentum of the Mass Digital Health Initiative launched by Governor Baker in January 2016.
"For Massachusetts to become a national leader in digital health, we need to continue to build on the momentum our Digital Health Initiative has already produced," said
Governor Charlie Baker
. "This council will collaborate to move past barriers in the healthcare industry and solve significant challenges to make advances in patient care, lower health care costs, and address public health crises, like the opioid epidemic."
Read the press release on the Governor's website and a list of the council members can be viewed on MassDigitalHealth.org.
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Israeli and Massachusetts Partnership on
Digital Health and Cybersecurity
During Governor Charlie Baker's recent Economic Development Mission to Israel, digital health and cybersecurity were front and center. The mission included the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), between the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and Israel's CyberSpark, a non-profit private organization focused on the promotion of the unique cybersecurity ecosystem in and around Be'er-Sheva, Israel. The MOU, signed by MassTech CEO Tim Connelly and CyberSpark CEO Roni Zehavi focuses on potential key areas for collaboration including research projects focused on healthcare technology-related cyber issues, designed to build on the cybersecurity and healthcare talent centered in both Massachusetts and Israel. The agreement also calls for technology and policy roundtables, training for cybersecurity students, and visits by delegations from both regions. Full details can be found in the press release announcing the agreement.
One of the business leaders joining Governor Baker in Israel, American Well co-founder Dr. Ido Schoenberg, took part in an interview in which he tackled the question of why, as an Israeli, he decided to set up his telehealth company in Boston. Check out the piece on American Well's website.
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Pulse@MassChallenge Accepts 31 Startups in its
1st Cohort
On December 13th, Pulse@MassChallenge announced the 31 digital health startups for the inaugural class of its digital health lab. The selected finalists were among 430+ applicants representing 30 states and 20 countries from around the world. 22 of the 31 startups are Massachusetts based companies.
Congratulations to all the new participants! View the list of companies in the 2017 Pulse@MassChallenge cohort
here. MeHI will serve as a strategic champion for the 31 companies.
Read some of the media coverage of the announcement:
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Podcast: Hooking Up Healthcare Innovators with Customers
Relentless Health Value released a podcast featuring MeHI Director Laurance Stuntz went live at the beginning of the month. In the podcast, Laurance discusses the Mass Digital Health Initiative and how MeHI and its partners are forming programs to drive the digital health economy in the Commonwealth.
In the interview, Laurance talks about some of the healthcare challenges that could prove to be opportunities for startups in the digital health space. He also discusses what startups realistically need to accomplish before engaging in an agreement with a provider organization.
He recommends innovators to "be flexible in your ideas, always question your assumptions, and find a partner interested in working with you."
For customers or healthcare organizations seeking digital health solutions, Laurance shares the outlines of programs MeHI is developing to make it easier to compare multiple innovations through profiles or "corporate resume templates".
To listen to the podcast, click
here.
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Mass Digital Health Company Wellist Receives Rock Health's "Diversity Leadership Award"
in the Startup Category
Each year fifty of the leading entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, reporters, and providers dedicated to bringing technological advancements to healthcare are recognized at the
Top 50 in Digital Health Dinner
hosted by Rock Health, Fenwick & West, Goldman Sachs, and Square 1 Bank.
We would like to send a big congratulations to #MassDigitalHealth company
Wellist, which r
eceived the "Diversity Leadership Award for a Startup" at the event!
From the announcement:
"Wellist
gives healthcare providers the tools and insights they need to address actual human needs resulting in improved patient satisfaction and outcomes. Reflecting the diversity of the patient populations they serve, the Wellist team represents a full range of age, race and, gender. Outside of the office, Wellist participates in a number of efforts to increase diversity in the digital health community."
Congratulations on this great recognition!
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Tap Into TechSpring Fireside Chat Recap
December's Tap into TechSpring fireside chat hosted three guest speakers to explore the topic of "Putting the Patient at the Center of Care".
Richard Wang, Director of Product Management at Imprivata discussed the development of coretext, a secure texting application, and the issues of cognitive overload.
Jennifer Fabrizi, Digital Strategy and Experience Design at Slalom Consulting gave a snapshot description of design thinking and how it can be leveraged by healthcare organizations.
Dr. Abbie Courtemanche, Associate Medical Director of Baycare Health Partners discussed why our current care delivery model is not patient-centered and what it will take to get there.
Check out
next month's event on Behavioral Health on January 12th!
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New Center for Digital Health launched by UMass Medical School, Boston and Lowell campuses
Pfizer to Use IBM Watson Supercomputing to Find New Drugs
Google-backed PatientPing raises more funding, plots expansion
Calling All Innovators! Spaulding Rehab Hospital's "Open for Business"
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Did you know there is a list of events on our website? Check out
MassDigitalHealth.org/events to see more upcoming digital health and innovation activities in Massachusetts.
If you are hosting or sponsoring a digital health event - tell us! Post your event by completing our webform.
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Innovation All Stars 2017
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Join Boston Business Journal at the brand new event space at The Innovation & Design Building on January 12th to celebrate Boston's technology & innovation leaders!
Honorees announced!
Click here to learn the honorees.
When:
Thursday, January 12, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Disruptive Digital Health Innovations
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Attend the upcoming Monthly Innovation Hour to hear a presentation from
David Rhew, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Healthcare and Fitness at Samsung Electronics America.
When:
Thursday, January 19, 2017
60 Fenwood Road
Boston, MA
Register for the event
here.
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2017 Yale Healthcare Hackathon
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The Future of Medical Imaging
A healthcare hackathon is an event in which people with diverse perspectives such as clinicians, engineers, designers, software developers, business people, problem solvers, and patients will come together in one intense, fun-filled three-day weekend to develop solutions that could address challenges facing healthcare today. At this year's hackathon, you will form teams, collaborate within a limited time frame, and focus on a specific problem or idea in healthcare to come up with innovative, disruptive ideas and solutions.
Visit the event website for more information.
When:
Friday, January 20 - Sunday, January 22
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