S8 E06 - Orthopaedic Moonshots

Welcome to the DOCSF Venture Desk lead by Dr. Nancy Lynch!  In this episode, Dr. Lynch interviews Unity Stoakes - President, Co-founder & Managing Partner at StartUp Health- and Amy Belt Raimundo - Managing Director at Kaiser Permanente Ventures- to discover where and on what technologies are investors putting their money. Over the last 5 years, the total amount of venture investments have been increasing. With the pandemic, everyone had to shift, and the healthcare industry had to in many ways. In 2020, 14 million dollars were invested into the digital health space. 2021 isn’t a stranger to this. In the past 6 months of the year, there has been a 200% increase in venture dollars compared to last year. Right now, there is a conversion of innovations going on. From different areas, innovations are combining to make new and better products and services.  Amy and Unity share their thoughts about what is coming up for start-ups related to investments and innovations. 

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The Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOCSF) was created to bridge the worlds of digital health and clinical orthopaedics and thereby catalyze the adoption of technology in musculoskeletal care. This podcast series features key speakers and highlights from the live event. Why orthopaedics? We believe that embedding digital technologies in a narrow integrated vertical is more likely to affect change than targeting one-fifth of the U.S. economy. We also believe that if a conference is to move the ball forward, it needs to target leaders who are positioned to drive change. These leaders want a conference that is practical, identifies solutions to real problems, and that provides perspective from people outside their normal circle. To this end, we invite Health Care, Industry, Finance, Entrepreneurs and Payers to participate. The DOCSF program design uses many educational formats including ‘case studies’ to illustrate success and a broad panel of experts to ask tough questions. And because change does not happen in a vacuum, we include leadership, policy and design segments in the program. Find out more, and register for our next conference, by visiting docsf.health.