Hacking Health How to Make Money and Save Lives in the HealthTech Wo

Documents the roles and career priorities of key members of a typical HealthTech team in order to improve understanding of each team member’s role; Discusses common pitfalls of HealthTech startups, including a detailed section on the regulatory processes

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Hacking Health How to Make Money and Save Lives in the HealthTech World

Hacking Health

David Putrino

Hacking Health How to Make Money and Save Lives in the HealthTech World

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David Putrino Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY USA

ISBN 978-3-319-71618-3 ISBN 978-3-319-71619-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71619-0

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017959313 © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To Dr. Jean F. Coppola, who taught me how, when, and why to use technology to enrich communities and impact public health. Your vision, passion and friendship will be greatly missed.

Acknowledgements

Writing any sort of book tends to be a fairly solitary and selfish endurance event. As such, I am incredibly fortunate to have an incredible support network of wonderful people who helped me through this process. Thanks to these people, I even managed to have a bit of fun writing this one, and I hope some of that comes through to you all. I am especially grateful to the following: To my wife, Rose, for putting up with all of the complaining, late nights and early mornings with (mostly) good humor and lots of love. To my parents and brothers for bringing me up in a loving, supportive, and enriched environment that has kept me curious, confident, and motivated over the years. To Nichole, John, Bunny, David, Robin, Marta, Phil, and Rachel for patiently sifting through all of the disorganized thoughts that made up my first drafts, helping me to make this thing readable. To Rusty, Brandy, and Brad for all of their amazing reading recommendations. To Flux, for his amazin