Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Kalyan Kalwa.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Dr. Kalwa. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I am a Physician and a Pharmacist by training and education and I come from India. I came to the U.S in 2000, my extensive education in India was not valid in the U.S and I had to find ways to survive here in the U.S. I quickly learned Information Technology (Software) and got in corporate America working for fortune 500 companies. After four years of working in corporate America, I got sick of it. I wanted to get out of corporate America but I was stuck, as I had visa restrictions. That changed in 2012 when I got my Green Card.
I started Health Innovators in 2012, I came to America to make a big difference and I wanted to impact each and every life. I knew to accomplish my big vision, I had to motive a town. I started hosting meeting to attract Healthcare people and Information Technology people to facilitate collaboration between them and provide resources to make them solve a healthcare problem. We have now catered to 15,000 people in the past five years by hosting local meetings. Our non-profit has morphed into a startup Digital health incubator, we are incubating ten startups right now.
Our goal is to capture the talent in Boston and channel it in the right direction. We crowd-source ideas, capital and resources to make our startups successful. We teach classes on how to start a startup, marketing, sales and we host tons of networking meetings. We crowd-source ideas at our brainstorming sessions, we crowd-source ideas investment via our equity crowdfunding platform and we help startups get access to early customers and early sales via our vast network of individuals we have collected over the past 5 years.
Through collaborative crowd-sourcing, we intend to make Boston number one for Digital health in the country by 2020.
Has it been a smooth road?
Accomplishing anything worthwhile is not a smooth road. The challenges I had to overcome were visa restrictions, assimilating and thriving in a new society. Running a non-profit is quite a challenge, funding is always an issue.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Health Innovators story. Tell us more about the business.
We are a digital health startup incubator (startup school for healthcare). We help companies who are trying to innovate in healthcare using information technology (Software). We help healthcare entrepreneurs take their idea to the next level by providing coaching, mentoring, access to capital and early customers. We specialize in healthcare technology and we are known for healthcare innovation.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
There will be a big shift on how healthcare is reimbursed, Doctors will be reimbursed for health outcome rather than a visit. Since reimbursement is based on outcome, Doctors will start to work on the outcomes which in-turn changes how care is delivered. Healthcare is slowly adopting the consumer tech model where convenience, speed and experience will be delivered to the patient care. Communication between the Doctor and patient will improve and constant monitoring of the patient will be performed. The overall goal will be to focus on prevention and making sure the whole population stays healthy so that we can reduce the cost spent on healthcare.
Contact Info:
- Address: Cambridge Innovation Center
1 Broadway
Cambridge
MA 02142 - Website: www.healthinno.org
- Phone: 617.230.9095
- Email: kalyan.kalwa@healthinno.org
- Instagram: http://bit.ly/2EventBrite
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Health.Innovators
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/HealthInnoBos
- Yelp: http://www.meetup.com/bostonhealthinnovators/
- Other: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kalyankalwa/
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