Curing the Pain Points in Healthcare
Join us March 14th at SXSW Interactive
2:00 PM, JW Marriott’s Griffin Hall
Invest for Health brings together entrepreneurs, industry executives, and venture capitalists who share the desire to make healthcare work as it should. Join us as we discuss healthcare’s biggest pain points, and the disruptive solutions necessary to solve them. All badged SXSW participants are welcome to attend, but we are also looking for amazing startups to participate in “networking breaks.” Speakers include Jonathan Bush, athenahealth; Sue Siegel, GE Ventures; and Dr. Joshua Newman, Salesforce.
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Invest for Health is a forum for conversations around solutions to healthcare’s most pressing pain points, and a call to build an agile, disruptive health ecosystem. To succeed, entrepreneurs need insight, access, and resources. At the same time, health care organizations are looking to partner with innovators to increase profitability, drive operational efficiencies, and improve quality of care. Invest for Health will facilitate connections, spark dialogue, and enable entrepreneurs and healthcare stakeholders to partner for success.
Who should attend: Health care executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, startups and all those interested in making health care better
Schedule
SESSION ONE • 2:00PM
Connecting the Disconnect: Fixing the Pain Points in Health Care
“Connecting the Disconnect: Fixing the Pain Points in Health Care” will feature Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth. Bush, along with speakers Sue Siegel of GE Ventures and Chris Coburn of Partners HealthCare, will discuss the crappy, disconnected state of health care, issues that plague the industry and the climate that has allowed them to thrive, and what the blueprint for the future looks like. This session brings together entrepreneurs, healthcare execs, and venture capitalists for conversations around real solutions to healthcare’s pain points. The event will facilitate connections, spark dialogue and enable entrepreneurs and healthcare stakeholders to partner for success.
Speakers: Jonathan Bush, Sue Siegel, Chris Coburn.
Moderator: Alexandra Drane
NETWORKING BREAK
SESSION TWO • 3:30PM
Empathy and Impact: Revolutionizing Healthcare With Data, Heart, and Soul
“Empathy and Impact: Revolutionizing Healthcare With Data, Heart, and Soul” will focus on how healthcare has forgotten the people it serves. It’s time to make health care feel good again, using empathy as a design principle. Cambia CEO Mark Ganz, GNS Healthcare Co-Founder Iya Khalil, Salesforce CMO Josh Newman and friends will explore the role data, heart and soul play in leveraging empathy to revolutionize health. This session brings together entrepreneurs, healthcare execs, and venture capitalists for conversations around real solutions to healthcare’s pain points. The event will facilitate connections, spark dialogue and enable entrepreneurs and healthcare stakeholders to partner for success.
Speakers: Mark Ganz, Iya Khalil, Josh Newman
Moderator: Alexandra Drane
NETWORKING BREAK
SESSION THREE • 5:00PM
Swipe Right: Creating Healthcare That’s HOT
“Swipe Right: Creating Healthcare That’s HOT.” There’s pent up demand for a radically different infrastructure in healthcare, but “new world orders” don’t come easy. Disrupting existing infrastructure has good days, and bad - it’s been called ‘the long dark night of the innovator’ for a reason. Join Matt Hermann from Ascension, Brad Perkins from Human Longevity and their friends as they reveal how to survive the hard moments while creating the next generation in healthcare. This session brings together successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for a conversation that creates connections, sparks dialogue and enables innovators and stakeholders to partner for success.
Speakers: Matt Hermann, Brad Perkins, Marcus Osborne, Tom Lee
Moderator: Alexandra Drane
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Our Founders
Ascension Ventures is a strategic healthcare venture fund with $550 million in capital under management. Their limited partners are some of the most respected, values-driven nonprofit healthcare systems in the US. As a strategic investor, Ascension Ventures adds value by sharing its portfolio companies’ solutions across its limited partner base. The work done at Ascension Ventures generates returns to their limited partners that help support missions that provide care to the poor and vulnerable.
athenahealth is a leading provider of cloud-based services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems. We connect care and drive meaningful, measurable results for more than 72,000 healthcare providers in medical practices and health systems nationwide. athenahealth offers cloud-based electronic health records (EHR), revenue cycle management and medical billing, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health management services that keep providers focused on care. 4,000+ employees strong, athenahealth is on a mission to let doctors be doctors and help health care work as it should.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com. To learn more about More Disruption Please (MDP), athenahealth’s innovation and partnership program, please visit http://www.athenahealth.com/
Cambia Health Solutions, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a health solutions company dedicated to transforming health care by creating a person-focused and economically sustainable system. Cambia’s growing family of companies range from software and mobile applications, health care marketplaces, non-traditional health care delivery models, health insurance, life insurance, pharmacy benefit management, wellness and overall consumer engagement. Through bold thinking and innovative technology, we are delivering solutions that make quality health care more available, affordable and personally relevant for everyone. To learn more, visit cambiahealth.com or twitter.com/cambia.
Details
SXSW Interactive,
JW Marriott Hotel, Austin, TX
Monday afternoon,
March 14, 2025
Half-Day Program