Hi Kristin, good morning. Can you tell us a bit about your background and your role at Upstart? Hi, I’m Upstart’s Senior Digital Health Associate. I’ve been with the company for over four years and work across all our healthcare clients and projects. It’s a really enjoyable role, especially seeing how our efforts are helping …
In August this year, Google announced that it was dismantling Google Health. Kristin Polman, Upstart’s Head of Health looks at what Google’s decision means for the wider healthcare ecosystem.
Innovation in pharma traditionally meant developing new blockbuster drugs, or in the last decade, digitally-led innovation. Now a new model is emerging, where pharma partners deeply with health systems to identify and treat more patients at lower cost. Jon Stephens, Upstart’s Pathway Transformation Director, explains how this is creating new business models and better outcomes …
Digital twins are here. Discover how they’re being used and explore the decisions you must make to deploy them successfully.
Discover how Joint Academy is using digital technology to remotely treat osteoarthritis and joint pain, delivering better patient outcomes.
Are you ready for Blockchain? As vaccine passports gather momentum, we look at how distributed ledgers are helping societies return to normal, and the lessons this has for your business. So? Blockchain is here. From financial services to manufacturing supply chains and electoral registers, it is now the go-to technology for a fast-growing number of …
Sometimes it takes a crisis to create an opportunity. It was only a matter of time before disrupted health met disrupted transport. Now Upstart and the ATAC community are joining forces to address the unmet needs for testing and long-term health service delivery in the community. We urgently need help from all parties to make …
There’s no doubt that COVID-19 is driving digital disruption. This isn’t a dystopian world of robotic overlords, as depicted in the Terminator movies. It’s more akin to Jarvis from “Ironman” – Assisting its human creator, as opposed to replacing him. Chatbots are fielding customer service enquiries, automated production lines are replacing staff shortages and robots …
Everyone knows about the benefits of exercise, but health and sports have remained distant sectors. Now active consumers and affordable tech are disrupting the silos in which they have operated. So? The grass always looks greener on the other side. When we speak to health leaders in their regulated business, they’re envious of the sports …
Digital disruption un-bundles and rewires every sector it touches. Previously protected areas such as healthcare are not immune, though pharma and medical devices – with high barriers to entry – have until now felt less of the heat. In Upstart’s five years in digital health, we’ve seen the impact of AI, data science and …
