Midwest Healthcare Innovation

In the conversation about healthcare innovation, outsize attention is paid to the coasts. There’s plenty of reason for that – there’s more venture capital in the Bay Area and in the Boston/New York region
and so more startups get funded there.

 

And yet, the Midwest is home to remarkable accelerators, funds, startups and health systems that are coming up with new ways to improve the Triple Aim in Healthcare.

Since its inception, MedCity News has covered innovation broadly but has also highlighted specific innovation coming out of middle America. For example, the strategies certain Midwestern health systems are undertaking to serve the patients of the future; how certain funds are launching to tackle important issues like population health and social determinants, how certain startups are upending traditional notions of health insurance.

Here’s a comprehensive look at the Midwestern healthcare innovation.