Closing Out 2016 at the Disruptive Spa (not really, just taking some R & R)
As we close out 2016, I want to take the opportunity to thank all the disruptors out there—women and men—working hard to get the needle to move (or at least to quiver). We know, with absolute certainty, that progress is not linear, it can take longer than we’d like, and it can be exhausting. But, it can also be exhilarating, satisfying, and surprising.
We are very excited to announce our 17 Disruptive Women to Watch in 2017—but unlike past years, you will have to wait until early 2017 to find out who these amazing women are and how they are shaking things up. Hey, we are disruptive so we like to mix it up fro...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Congratulations to our November 2017 Disruptive Women in Health Care Man of the Month: Peter L. Levin
Hear Peter Levin’s most recent TEDxWilmington Talk. You are in for a treat. (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Walking in a Venture Fundingland
The post was originally published on December 18, 2016.
For those of you who have followed me for a while, you know I like to do a holiday song parody at the end of each year. I love both comedy and music, and if I didn’t have a singlng voice that could raise the dead I could have been the next Weird Al Yankovic. Lord knows I have the hair for it.
So here it is, my last post for the annus horribilis that was 2016: a new entrepreneurial anthem to ring in the New Year (or at least the JP Morgan conference): Thriving Here in Venture Fundingland.
You know that part in the How the Grinch Stole Christmas where the Grin...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
December 2016 Disruptive Women in Health Care Man of the Month – Connor Landgraf
Universities everywhere would do well to utilize Disruptive Women’s December Man of the Month Connor Landgraf in marketing campaigns, making the point that a single moment in a classroom can change the world. Landgraf, at age 26, is the co-founder and CEO of Eko Devices, a start-up he created with two fellow graduates of the University of California, Berkeley. Eko’s first product, the Eko Core, was named by TIME Magazine as one of 2015’s top inventions and he and his colleagues were selected by Forbes for its “30 Under 30” list of the brightest young stars in 15 different fields of endeavor.
For Landgraf, the...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
Mental Health: Forward Thinking – The Implementation Plan
Overview
A major transformation programme for mental health is underway, an unprecedented and decisive step towards closing the treatment gap for mental health. The roadmap for change ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View’ sets out how services will help reach a million more people a year by 2020/21. So how do we make the plans a reality?
“Implementing this plan will benefit people of all ages… As such, our aim to improve mental health and wellbeing cannot solely be achieved by the NHS, but must be delivered in partnership with other local organisations including local government, housing, education, employment...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: DW UK Mental Health Source Type: blogs
The Digital Health Gap For High-Cost, High-Need Patients
This post was originally published on HealthPopuli.com on December 7, 2016.
Several market forces are converging that boost patients’ ability to engage in their health and self-care, including peoples’ growing adoption of smartphones, demand for self-service and DIY lifestyles, and Americans’ growing responsibility as health consumers. Health consumers are using a growing array of self-health tools, enabled through digital technologies. However, these tools aren’t yet engaging some of the very people who need them the most: high-need, high-cost patients.
Research into this situation is discussed in the December ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Health Reform Patients Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Mobile Mirror, Mobile Mirror on the Brain: Mind, Maps, and Memory
Room: Potomac 1-3
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Description
** This event requires a separate registration and add-on fee. It is NOT included with General Conference Passes.” But, if you use our special code: DISRUPT16, you can attend at no charge.
REGISTER HERE
A Disruptive Women in Health Care Roundtable: Tackling Brain Health
Women. We bring home the bacon and freeze our eggs. We learn from an early age how to multi-task (in heels while walking backwards—you have to be of a certain age to get that one). We take care of things, and people. That’s what we do. But what happens to us...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Brain Health Source Type: blogs
The Sandwich and Boomer Generation ’s Dilemma
Are you like us, part of the sandwich generation? We all likely know and help an aging family member, friend, or neighbor who has health issues, few community supports, and lives alone or with someone else who needs support. We also have our own concerns about one day facing the same challenges, or not being able to choose where we live. But we also aspire to have a quality of life that is not solely defined by our health status.
The Boomer generation is unprecedented in size, living well and longer into older years, but when frailty occurs and supports are needed, many older adults find that there are few informal and for...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Youth and the Young. Health and the Healthy.
We’ve all heard it: “Youth is wasted on the young.” To that, I’ll add “Health is wasted on the healthy.”
Both sayings came to mind as I read Elayne Clift’s post about caregivers a few days ago. To the national numbers she cited, I’ll add a few more. Mine don’t come from national surveys but from working to understand life in a “new way,” one that is vital if we are going to roll up our policy sleeves and help caregivers.
This new way identifies all the connections we maintain with other people; connections that are vital if we are to have families, careers, homes, and a social life. Most of us – esp...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Health Source Type: blogs
The criteria to determine which organizations are diversity leaders
This post was originally published on Rock Health on December 4, 2016.
After reviewing hundreds of public nominations for the Top 50 in Digital Health: Diversity Leadership award, we are proud to announce the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Wellist as the deserving honorees of 2017. They each truly embody leadership in diversity, having continually shown their commitment to hiring, supporting, and building diverse teams to tackle the most pressing problems facing healthcare today.
We know that having a diverse team creates a positive and more inclusive culture—and benefits the bottom-line through a lower turnove...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing Sex-Based Research in Heart Disease and Alzheimer ’s Disease
This blog was originally published by The Huffington Post on 11/30.
Co-authored by Jill Lesser, President of WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s and British Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Heart Alliance.
What if we could access knowledge that would transform modern medicine, enabling better disease prevention, better clinical decision-making, better therapeutics and better health outcomes for all Americans?
We don’t have to imagine. The answer lies in making medical research truly inclusive—in part, by filling the widespread gender, racial, and ethnic gaps in clinical trials; and most significantly, by stu...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease Heart Disease Source Type: blogs
World aids day 2016
This World AIDS Day, many of you are helping to educate women about HIV testing, prevention, and treatment. We just want to remind you that the FDA Office of Women’s Health is a partner in your outreach and care. Please use these FDA resources in your activities today and in the coming year.
Women and HIV Factsheet
HIV Medication Booklet
Facts about PrEP
Also, join us in the fight to help find a cure. Our Diverse Women in Clinical Trials Campaign is mobilizing women of diverse backgrounds to participate in HIV clinical research. Encourage the women in your networks, regardless of age, HIV status or sexual orientation, ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Tales, Tips and Love from Women Caregivers
Elayne Clift
Women have always been caregivers. Whether looking after small children, elders, other family members or friends in small communities, tending to others in urban settings with limited support systems, or acting as professional caregivers in institutional settings, we have been the primary providers of physical care and emotional support in a variety of settings and circumstances throughout the ages.
Today that remains true, and being the main caregiver may be more vital than ever. As women have children later and elders live longer, we are challenged by competing demands and shrinking resources. Many of us hav...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Caregiving Women Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Women Events: Not to be Missed
Mark your calendars now, we are not ending this year quietly and 2017 is shaping up to be a very busy year—lots of disrupting to do and we hope to have you join in!
December 13, 2016: Mobile Mirror, Mobile Mirror on the Brain: Mind, Maps, and Memory (Use promo code DISRUPT16 to get in free!)
January 8, 2017: J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference/Rock Health Digital Awards Dinner
Disruptive Women in Health Care is pleased to have been asked by Rock Health to collaborate on their Diversity Leadership Award which will be presented at the upcoming J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference as part of the Top 50 in Digital Health ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
November 2016 Man of the Month: Peter L. Levin
Peter L. Levin
There’s an old saying that says information is power. Peter L. Levin, founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions and Disruptive Woman’s November Man of the Month, has done that phrase one better, advocating the idea of “Data to the People.”
As millions of Americans know firsthand, Levin’s actions have more than matched his words. For years, health data was stored in closed proprietary systems and made inaccessible to patients. An individual with a serious health condition couldn’t present their health records to a new doctor because they were kept out of reach.
Blue Button changed this s...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
