Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re pleased to bring you our very first newsletter — thanks for subscribing! Chicago Health Tech loves you!

Why a newsletter?

We’ve been receiving requests to communicate things like interesting news items, job opportunities and health tech meetups not organized by us. Meetup.com helps us broadcast meeting events, but not much more. We also [...]

Would you like to build or extend your relationships with the institutional investor community?  Jake Plummer, Chrysalis Ventures and Hyde Park Angels are holding their second ‘Open Office Hours’ event on March 26th, 2012.  ”Office Hours” are by invitation only, but we encourage all entrepreneurs to apply.

Why apply?  You may [...]

Build quickly.

Our plan has always been to build and launch a prototype of our website as quickly as possible.  We are currently in the final stages of testing our website and things are definitely starting to come together.  In very basic terms, our product strategy is to do the following:

Launch a minimum viable [...]

We’re becoming more than just a meetup group! We’re getting requests to communicate things like interesting news items, job opportunities and health tech meetups not organized by us. So we’re starting a newsletter to get the word out every 2 to 3 weeks.

Also, a newsletter will allow us to involve you more directly in [...]

We want to welcome Healthbox’s first class to Chicago. Most of you are probably in town already. You’ll notice we’ve rolled out the red carpet to our fair city: the weather you’re experiencing this weekend was specially canned and saved just for you. (It’s 50, sunny, and windless in the Windy City, [...]

A few days after San Francisco’s RockHealth announced their second class, Chicago’s Healthbox unveiled their inaugural 2012 class of companies. We are excited to have innovation shine here in Chicago and decided to create some quick stats:

Healthbox 2012 startups by area of focus (a few have overlap in multiple areas of focus):

5 – patient [...]

See user experience and design concepts applied to two local health tech startups – Leslie’s List and Human Practice. This video is HD, so definitely make it full screen to see details. Also, slides from this session are posted here, along with several resources on user experience and design.

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Hey Chicago Health 2.0 and Health Tech Companies!

CH20 member and Booth MBA candidate Paul Wu passed along info about a VC Investment Competition that he’s helping to organize.

Here are the details:

It’s Friday January 20, 2012 – all day at the University of Chicago You should apply if you’re looking to raise VC [...]