Catalyst at Berkeley

09/09/2016

Thanks to everyone who came out to the kickoff event last night! And thank you to our panelists, Anand and Francis! For those of you who gave your email to us in the sign-in form, keep an eye out for an email giving more details about the program and a link to the application! If you didn't give us your email last night, all of the information will also be posted here, so don't worry. We look forward to seeing your applications!

09/23/2015

Submit the application for the Catalyst Executive team tonight and be a part of the growing field of Health Entrepreneurship!

Catalyst@Berkeley is looking for driven and dedicated students interested in health technology to join our executive team. We have a variety of open positions and opportunities for advancement to leadership positions.

07/28/2015

Congratulations to Google Loon and one of our very own advisors Mike Cassidy on this historic launch!

July 28, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government and Google on Tuesday signed an agreement to cover the Island with 3G internet under ‘Google Loon project’. Sri Lanka is the first country in the world ...

04/14/2015

Big news for the future of healthcare.

IBM on Monday announced a new cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud that will, in cooperation with partners Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic, offer custom tailored data analytics services to healthcare professionals.

01/22/2015

With speakers and judges such as Peter Thiel, Halle Tecco [Rock Health], and Marc Benioff [Salesforce] -- don't miss the Launch Festival March 2-4, in SF! The event is
Register at http://bit.ly/1FARZsA

12/11/2014

Catalyst Open House begins.

11/09/2014

There are real problems out there -- keeping track of blood sugar and insulin levels for diabetics, measuring peak flow for asthmatics, and in Silicon Valley the norm is focusing on what's trendy.

"People with chronic diseases don’t suddenly decide that they’re over it and the novelty has worn off. Tracking and measuring—the quantified self—is what keeps them out of the hospital"

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/where-fitness-trackers-fail/

Fitness tracking companies need to start embracing the FDA and making devices and apps for the old, the chronically ill, and the poor.

10/29/2014

Apple's HealthKit vs. Google Fit [Infographic]

https://www.truevault.com/blog/apple-healthkit-vs-google-fit-infographic.html

The field of mHealth has never been hotter as more people add wearables to their list of must-have devices. With the release of the iPhone 6 and HealthKit, Apple is now one of the largest digital health platforms in the world. It’s clear that we’re at the very beginning of a megatrend in personal he…

10/28/2014

Setting the record straight.

Let's show the world why UC Berkeley made the Top 3 for all Universities globally.

The best schools in the world, according to U.S. News.

09/25/2014

Get Ready for HEALTH TECH EDU

09/22/2014

Case Study for the need for healthcare reform or innovation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-surprise-medical-bills.html

"He was blindsided, though, by a bill of about $117,000 from an “assistant surgeon,” a Queens-based neurosurgeon whom Mr. Drier did not recall meeting."

These costs "..may involve out-of-network providers who bill 20 to 40 times the usual local rates and often collect the full amount, or a substantial portion."

The effect -->

Total Medical Costs for US: $2.8 trillion.

Annually.

In a growing practice, medical assistants, consultants and other hospital staffers, often called in without patients’ knowledge, are charging hefty fees.

09/16/2014

Generating those sponsorship leads