On the 12th and 13th of May, happened at Fundação Getulio Vargas F (FGV) StartupSaúdeBrasil (Brazil Healthcare Startups) the largest healthcare startups acceleration process in Latin America. Directed by EmpreenderSaúde recognized site of entrepreneurship and innovation in healthcare, the event attracted directors of major healthcare companies in Brazil to provide mentoring to entrepreneurs with innovative...
O EmpreenderSaúde, reconhecido site de inovação e empreendedorismo, vai realizar nos dias 12 e 13 de maio na Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), em São Paulo, o Startup Saúde Brasil. Foram selecionados 30 mentores de altíssimo nível para mentorar 10 startups selecionadas. O processo, único na América Latina, durará todo o final de semana, contará com representantes de grandes players...
Before and After: Healthcare Insanity in America By Donna Smith It doesn’t really matter what the Supreme Court does with the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). It’s a classic “heads I win, tails you lose” situation for millions of people. The system we have now is dominated by profit-takers. The system we...
In an interesting twist on the accelerator and incubator model for entrepreneurs, StartUp Health Academy announced its first class of “healthcare transformers” today at SXSW in Austin. StartUp Health, which is chaired by former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin and is backed by AT&T and the California HealthCare Foundation, is backing 10 entrepreneurs who are...
“Queremos fornecer medicamentos para o mercado mundial” O engenheiro mecânico paulista José Ricardo Mendes da Silva ingressou há dez anos no laboratório brasileiro Aché, o quarto maior do País, com a missão de aumentar a rentabilidade e preparar sua entrada na bolsa de valores. Por Clayton NETZ e Marcio ORSOLINI “Um IPO do Aché vai...
Health startups will be pitching their businesses to the Internet crowd next week at the SXSW Interactive Accelerator. Smartphone attachments, wireless platforms for teenagers and data-mining tools in the health space will be competing with other entrepreneurs focused on social media, mobile applications, entertainment, news, music and innovative web. The matchup starts Monday with 48 companies. Eighteen will be invited back on...
Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Physicians & Students Get Together at MIT to Hack Healthcare The medical field is ripe for innovation and looking to be disrupted. By using available tools in unconventional ways, entrepreneurs, physicians, students and engineers can really make an impact, which is what H@cking Medicine is designed to prove. A production of the Martin Trust Center for...
Four new health technology companies covering areas from Big Data to telemedicine to therapeutics made their pitches to investors and media at the StartX demo day on Thursday. StartX is Stanford University’s nonprofit student startup accelerator, operated independently from the university. Its fifth class of startups from the fall of 2011 includes four new companies devoted...
Governo prepara amplo programa para estimular complexo industrial da saúde Por João Villaverde | De Brasília O governo Dilma Rousseff deve anunciar, já no primeiro trimestre deste ano, um amplo estímulo à indústria de máquinas e equipamentos médicos e hospitalares e também para os fabricantes de produtos farmacêuticos. Informalmente chamado de “apoio ao complexo industrial da...
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