The first weekend in June marked a milestone in health care for Philadelphians with the first Startup Weekend dedicated solely to improving health care systems. Billed as a $2.7 trillion industry, healthcare caught the attention of an entrepreneurial community centered in a life sciences hub.
The weekend winner was Quick See MD,
a web tool aiming to direct people to nearby clinics and other medical
facilities other than often over-burdened emergency rooms.
Startup Weekend, the launch-a-business-in-a-weekend event first conceived in 2007 by Andrew Hyde in Boulder, Colo. and most recently held locally during Philly Tech Week,
focuses mostly on mobile applications, websites and other simple life
online businesses. But like the popular TED conference and lightning
talk event Ignite, Startup Weekend just may be taking a more narrow
focus, highlighted by this weekend’s Startup Weekend Health.
During the summer I was a staff reporter for Philadelphia Neighborhoods, a hyper-local publication based in Philadelphia. Through this publication, I was partnered as an intern with my partner at PN with Technically Philly, a niche media publication focused on anything technology happening in Philadelphia.
This appeared on the Technically Philly website on June 5, 2012.
Read the entire article here: http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/06/05/startup-healthcare-weekend-winner-quick-see-md-directs-users-to-er-alternatives
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