Innovators in Practice: Building a Digital Health Startup Within an Academic Health System

​Join us for an Innovators in Practice session with Marisa MacClary, digital health entrepreneur and expert in academic innovation. Marisa will share strategies for developing and launching digital health startups within academic health systems, including navigating institutional partnerships, resource constraints, and early validation.

​About Marisa:

​Marisa MacClary has been designing and deploying innovative healthcare software solutions for physicians, hospitals, and health systems for over 25 years. She co-founded digital health company Artifact Health in 2014, and as CEO, led the company for seven years through its acquisition by Iodine Software in 2021. Under her leadership, Artifact Health supported over 80,000 healthcare providers at more than 200 health systems and was named one of KLAS's ""Top 20 Emerging Solutions"" in 2022. As Executive Vice President for Iodine Software, she helped expand Artifact (renamed Interact) to over 100,000 healthcare providers at 500+ hospitals across the country.

Prior to co-founding Artifact Health, Marisa founded consultancy Health Tech Associates, where from 2001 to 2013 she designed and deployed clinical technology platforms for organizations including Johns Hopkins Medicine, BBN Technologies, and Salar Inc. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in Biology and the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College with an MBA. She recently became a certified Emergency Medical Technician and is currently pursuing an MPH degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

​This event is part of Yale Ventures’ Innovators in Practice series, a speaker and workshop program that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, experts, and students in the fundamentals of startup leadership and venture creation. Each session offers candid, experience-based perspectives on the challenges and rewards of building impactful companies.