About
Steve Brown is an entrepreneur and active board member in innovative software and Internet businesses.
Most recently, he has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at MDV–Mohr Davidow Ventures, pursuing opportunities to apply Internet technologies and services to empower consumers and encourage healthier lifestyles.
Steve was the founder, CEO and Chairman of Health Hero Network, where he led the development and commercialization of the Health Buddy® system, the leading home health monitoring platform for chronic care used by the Veterans Administration, McKesson and other major healthcare institutions. In 2007, Health Hero Network was acquired by Bosch, a multinational technology and services company with 260,000 employees worldwide.
Steve earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Stanford University. In his honors thesis on modeling climate change, he created educational simulations to teach people about the impact of lifestyle and behavior on global warming. He then went on to conduct research funded by a series of grants from the National Institutes of Health on using interactive media to change health behavior. Based on this research, he started and led a business that developed multi-player role-playing video games designed to improve health behavior in children.
Steve Brown has given many presentations at international conferences on transforming chronic care and on the potential for the Internet and interactive media to positively change behavior. He has played a leadership role in industry organizations such as the Information Technology Association of America and the eHealth Initiative to help change government policies and open markets for chronic care improvement and remote health services. Steve Brown’s innovations have resulted in 67 US patents and numerous industry awards.
