Relevant definitions
| Term | Definition/Examples |
|---|---|
| Venture Capital Funded (VC-funded) | An organization that is beyond the “Seed” or “Series A” rounds of personal, friends and family, and angel funding investment. A single, or multiple, venture capital firms often fund a venture at this stage at a total investment of $3M or more (also referred to as VC-backed) |
| Healthcare service start-ups | Organizations such as private clinics, outpatient services, and elder and disabled care that entered the marketplace within the last five years and leveraged a combination of in-person visits and technology to provide care |
| Innovative healthcare service start-ups | healthcare service start-ups that hold patents |
| Health Outcomes | Self-reported fair/poor health, physically unhealthy days/month, mentally unhealthy days/month, diagnosed diabetes and diagnosed HIV cases |
| Health Factors | Smoking, obesity, binge/heavy drinking, lack of health insurance, preventable hospital stays, mammography, and flu vaccination |
| Hospital Utilization | Total inpatient days, inpatient days of short-term general hospitals, outpatient visits, outpatient visits for short-term general hospitals, and emergency department visits in short-term general hospitals |
| Term | Definition/Examples |
|---|---|
| Venture Capital Funded (VC-funded) | An organization that is beyond the “Seed” or “Series A” rounds of personal, friends and family, and angel funding investment. A single, or multiple, venture capital firms often fund a venture at this stage at a total investment of $3M or more (also referred to as VC-backed) |
| Healthcare service start-ups | Organizations such as private clinics, outpatient services, and elder and disabled care that entered the marketplace within the last five years and leveraged a combination of in-person visits and technology to provide care |
| Innovative healthcare service start-ups | healthcare service start-ups that hold patents |
| Health Outcomes | Self-reported fair/poor health, physically unhealthy days/month, mentally unhealthy days/month, diagnosed diabetes and diagnosed HIV cases |
| Health Factors | Smoking, obesity, binge/heavy drinking, lack of health insurance, preventable hospital stays, mammography, and flu vaccination |
| Hospital Utilization | Total inpatient days, inpatient days of short-term general hospitals, outpatient visits, outpatient visits for short-term general hospitals, and emergency department visits in short-term general hospitals |
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