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HIMSS23 Europe Startup PitchFest winner Direct Diagnostics' CEO Elsemieke Hackenitz says the company's preventive-healthcare solution is scaling as it shifts its focus toward a B2B model.
Ryan Helon, VP of investment funds at Rev1 Ventures, discusses how the firm plans to invest $30 million in growing life sciences startups within the central Ohio region. He describes the resources it and its partners provide to companies.
Joaquim Cunha, executive director of Health Cluster Portugal, discusses increasing cooperation and collaboration in innovation between academia, private industry and healthcare stakeholders both internally and externally in Portugal.
Anca del Rio, a Basel health tech arena leader, relays her experience as a judge at the Startup PitchFest at HIMSS23 Europe, and the factors startups need to possess to go to market and scale successfully, including attraction capital.
Filipe Santos Costa, CEO and chairman of Portugal's international trade and investment agency AICEP, discusses trade and investments in healthcare in the country and its work with HIMSS to promote Portuguese healthcare services abroad.
Naomi Fried, founder and CEO of PharmStars, discusses the 13 startups from its spring cohort and its call for applications for its fall 2023 cohort, Digital Innovations in Therapeutic Delivery: Supply Chain to the Patient Interface.
Dr. Sunny Kumar, partner with GSR Ventures, a digital health investment company managing $3 billion in assets, surveys priorities, interest areas and the line between tech and tech-enabled services.
The WHO’s Digital Health and Innovation Department director, professor Alain Labrique, explains the department's mandate and how member states can deploy investments to build strength into their healthcare systems.
PharmStars founder and CEO Naomi Fried talks about the company's call for applications to digital health companies that aim to improve women's health and health equity for underserved populations.
Working in economic affairs and innovation, Eli Levin of the Consulate General of Israel to New England seeks to strengthen ties between the country and the region through healthcare partnerships.