Acies Medical
The Acies Smart Needle luminesces on contact with blood, assuring the user of appropriate placement for vascular access and injection. A person dies every 24 seconds due to a needlestick worldwide. Difficulty with vascular access in stroke and cardiac procedures increases the risk of death by over 400 percent. Acies Medical drives the capacity for rapid, safe and secure access without the use of kidney damaging dye nor the cumbersome use of ultrasound. Acies also reduces the risk of myocarditis on vaccine injection by preventing inadvertent intravascular injections, driving vaccine compliance. At a population health level, a 15 percent boost in compliance may represent over $1 trillion in prevented GDP loss.
AIQ Solutions
AIQ Solutions has developed an AI-driven medical software technology to quantify treatment response in patients with complex diseases beginning with metastatic cancer. This technology enables oncologists to make patient-specific therapy adjustments leading to more effective patient management and ultimately helping improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare system costs.
AIRS Medical
AIRS Medical has developed an AI-powered MRI reconstruction software, SwiftMR, with which institutions can reduce their MRI scan time by up to 50 percent and still achieve equivalent or even better image quality. It enables less rescans due to motion artifacts and higher patient throughput and revenue. Most importantly, reduced scan times greatly elevate patient experience inside the scanner with the added benefit of shorter wait in line.
Azuba
Azuba provides a lifetime clinical records platform for health providers, payers, researchers, patients and app providers including: access to approximately 90 percent of the clinical data in the U.S.; normalization and standardization of all the clinical data making it usable by AI/ML tools for improved diagnosis and treatment assistance to providers and payers; distribution of clinical data to almost 100 percent of all health providers in the U.S., thereby helping reduce the more than 14 million per year unnecessary medical errors and up to $1 trillion per year in unnecessary costs; single point of access to patient health data for the 250,000+ mobile health apps in the market, enabling these apps to provide a much richer and more accurate experience for patients; and much more.
Canopy
The first Intelligent Care Platform for oncology, Canopy provides practices and life sciences organizations with intelligent solutions for proactive, outcome-based care. Canopy’s comprehensive and EMR-integrated suite of products includes ePRO-based Patient Monitoring (ePROs), Oral Oncolytics solutions, clinical workflow and patient engagement tools, as well as automated billing, reimbursement capture, and advanced analytics. Canopy supports numerous leading cancer treatment centers across the U.S. and is rapidly growing.
Dina
Dina powers the future of home-based care. They are a digital care-at-home platform and network and support hospitals and health systems, ACOs and health plans as they transition to home-centered care. Their technology is used to efficiently transition people home or to another post-acute setting after a hospitalization; activate medical and non-medical in-home services; remotely monitor people in between visits to help them stay home safely; and assess new types of home-based data to identify risks and inform care plans.
Discreedly
Discreedly offers pharma companies a SaaS platform to connect their medical affairs division with healthcare providers (HCPs). HCPs can also use this platform to access vital medication information and other resources about new therapies to update their treatment strategies. The product (currently in development) is a digital platform that will be available via both a web-based application and mobile app. The platform will provide pharma companies with a resource for omnichannel engagement with HCPs and also provide HCPs with access to information and resources like on-demand MSLs to receive the information they need in a timely manner and prescribe the right medication for a patient. The platform will also allow HCPs to receive real-time updates on new medications as well as provide analytics for pharmaceutical companies.
DreaMed Diabetes
DreaMed Diabetes is a developer of AI-based algorithms and data analytics focused on delivering expert-level care to all patients with diabetes. The company was established in 2014 and is a pioneer in the development of an artificial pancreas technology which was licensed to Medtronic in 2015 and incorporated into its MiniMed 780G insulin pump. DreaMed is currently commercializing endo.digital, its AI-based clinical decision support system which emulates endocrinologists’ personalized recommendations and frequently monitors and optimizes insulin therapy for patients across all care settings in order to improve outcomes.
eFamilyCare
eFamilyCare is a technology-enabled service dedicated to empowering an overlooked yet integral participant in home-based services, the family caregiver. Their expert care advisers are licensed social workers and nurses with 10+ years of geriatric experience. These care advisers are matched with caregivers for the duration of their needs in a continuity of care model designed to build trust and rapport over time rather than deliver episodic support. They engage, coach and advise family caregivers both synchronously (via video) and asynchronously (via virtual messaging).
Elsa Science
Elsa Science offers a solution for rheumatic care management where patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are monitored remotely and utilized in care management by healthcare providers. Elsa Science’s service extends patient care beyond the clinic and offers richer assessments for quicker interventions. The objectives are to drive the transition to value-based care, enabling population health management as well as precision health on an individual level. The service consists of two products: a selfcare/self-monitoring tool where patients follow up on symptoms, medications, side effects and lifestyle habits and receive training on how to cope with arthritis. Their PROs are shared with providers in a clinical decision support tool. They are currently launching their service in the Midwest, collaborating with group clinics as well as major healthcare systems such as Advocate Aurora Health.
Elucid Health
Elucid Health’s mission is to work toward building a healthier community, and they believe the heart of healthcare is service to others. They have developed a cutting-edge population health solution, leveraging advanced analytics, technology and artificial intelligence, that will be provided to their clients with graceful care.
ezClinic
ezClinic is AI for nurses to predict care needs and increase patient capacity. U.S. hospitals report 500,000 preventable deaths yearly because nurses miss adverse events when busy with other patients and tasks. ezClinic gives nurses a patient monitoring assistant that predicts morbidity and safety events to ensure awareness of critical needs at all times.
Habitnu
CDC-recognized HabitNu leverages live coaching, AI-based technology and personalized nudges to help individuals build healthier habits to prevent or manage lifestyle diseases such as prediabetes, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Participants access and use highly engaging digital tools to monitor their progress, keep motivated and stay on track. HabitNu offers both service delivery and platform license options to their health system, employer, payer and pharmacy partners.
HealthBeacon
HealthBeacon is a medication adherence technology company. The HealthBeacon™ is a smart sharps bin for patients who self-administer injectable medications in the home setting. The smart sharps bin encases a traditional waste bin and provides patients with an easy, elegant, safe and connected way to dispose of their used needles, syringes, vials or injectors.
Health Note
Health Note maximizes practice performance by transforming patient appointment reminders, digital patient intake and electronic check-in into a single solution that becomes the epicenter of practice efficiency. By empowering patients to update their health records via a conversational chatbot before the visit and automating clinical notes, Health Note creates faster check-in, faster rooming, better patient-provider conversations and a better experience for everyone.
Hued
HUED is a digital health equity company creating equitable and inclusive healthcare experiences for Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. Equitable healthcare starts with educating healthcare professionals on how to better care for those communities who are typically overlooked and underserved. HUED replaces outdated implicit bias training that simply “checks a box” with physician-led content and courses that train clinicians on anti-racism, identifying health conditions that are largely missed on patients of color, and how to provide culturally sensitive/humble care.
Hyivy Health
Created after the founder’s recent fight with cervical cancer, she wanted to change the way one in three women worldwide who will experience a pelvic health complication in their lifetime are treated given that the current standard of care is a more than 84-year-old technology. Hyivy Health provides a data-driven pelvic rehabilitation system for the over 60 million women in North America with hypertonic, painful pelvic floor conditions. Their system provides the first quantifiable dataset on the pelvic floor by using their Floora device to conduct three different therapies, which are tracked using multiple biosensors helping patients and their clinicians treat, track and predict pelvic floor and gynecological conditions and symptoms.
NOMO Diagnostics
NOMO Diagnostics is a company focused on real-time concussion detection for contact sports athletes and the military by developing the first FDA-approved platform for early intervention of this silent epidemic. With only 20 percent of concussions being identified, there is a large unmet need for a passive monitoring, on-the-field diagnostic of brain trauma. NOMO has created a miniaturized quantitative EEG device with a proprietary algorithm to generate an objective and physiologically relevant readout of brain health coupled with a longitudinal tracking application, providing a digital health record of the brain.
NovaXS Biotech
NovaXS is a medical device startup on a mission to simplify the medication self-administration process and improve remote healthcare outcomes. Their patent-pending technology, Telosis, is a smart needle-free drug delivery platform that allows patients to self-administer medications subcutaneously or intramuscularly within 0.3 seconds and tracks long-term treatment adherence.
OpenLoop
OpenLoop is a health tech leader delivering full-stack, white-labeled clinical support to companies scaling virtual care services across the nation. OpenLoop provides staffing, full tech stack, legal and compliance infrastructure and payer coverage for digital health companies. Founded with the vision to bring healing anywhere, OpenLoop’s solutions are thoughtfully designed to simplify telehealth delivery across an expansive array of specialties in all 50 states.
OPTT
OPTT is a virtual behavioral health platform powered by clinically validated, interactive digital care plans and AI algorithms that allow evidence-based decision making based on personalized data and behavioral phenotyping. OPTT is designed to improve the efficiency of behavioral care delivery while supporting patients with everyday health challenges and enabling asynchronous patient provider communications. Their solution enables caregivers to provide clinically sound, efficient, stigma-free and fully customizable interactive therapy to their patients. Each of OPTT’s therapy modules or commercially available content has undergone extensive research and testing and has been validated over five clinical trials.
Perx Health
Perx Health is the chronic condition management program that works for everyone. The company’s proprietary precision behavior change approach motivates high-risk patients to engage four to five times daily and consistently for an average of 189 days. In doing so, Perx helps patients sustain 95 percent adherence to critical clinical tasks and form long-term habits for self-management.
physIQ
physIQ has developed healthcare’s first FDA 510k-cleared personalized physiology data analytics platform. Using proven, proprietary machine learning technology, physIQ’s analytics detect subtle changes in relationships between vital signs that may be a precursor to an acute event or hospitalization. Designed to work with any wearable device that collects physiology parameters, their mission is to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs through reduced hospitalizations.
Rhaeos
Rhaeos is a clinical stage digital health and medical technology company developing FlowSense, a platform and noninvasive wireless, wearable skin sensor that can assess bodily fluid flow beneath the skin’s surface in the hospital and home. The company is initially targeting hydrocephalus, a chronic neurological condition caused by an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on the brain. Pipeline applications in oncology and dialysis are in development. Rhaeos has raised more than $8 million in financing ($2.2 million dilutive, $6 million non-dilutive), has received FDA breakthrough designation, has published clinical data in the Science and Nature family of journals, and is on track for initial market entry in early 2023. Current pivotal trial sites include UCSF, Stanford, Northwestern, Duke and more.
Sapien Health
Sapien Health is a digital clinic that helps people prepare for and recover from surgery at home. Sapien Health’s service combines human health coaching and personalized digital guidance to support their members in understanding and adopting lifestyle habits that improve surgery outcomes. By optimizing an individual’s body and mind ahead of surgery they minimize unplanned cancellations, reduce surgical complications and speed up recovery. Sapien Health’s mission is to help 100 million people have successful surgery.
Seven Starling
Seven Starling is a digital platform making high-quality mental healthcare more accessible for new mothers and caregivers. Perinatal mood disorders are the #1 complication of childbirth and #1 driver of maternal deaths in the U.S. With specialized therapy, peer support and medication management, Seven Starling uses the most effective, proven methods to treat common perinatal mood disorders like postpartum depression and anxiety more quickly and effectively. Seven Starling is covered by major health plans and gets patients into care within days of signing up.
SonarMD
SonarMD is an end-to-end care coordination solution proven to keep patients with gut health conditions healthier and out of the hospital. SonarMD uses digital tools to proactively detect deteriorating gut health — so patients receive the right care, at the right time, at a lower cost. SonarMD partners with health plans and providers to ensure patients have access to expert support, personalized care pathways and the best innovations in GI care.
Soundable Health
Soundable Health unlocks the power of ambient sounds by capturing digital audible biomarkers through smartphones. Their clinically validated, audio AI technology uncovers medical insights at users’ convenience and informs clinical decisions for physicians. Soundable Health currently serves the urology and respiratory spaces to advance remote patient monitoring, with future plans to expand to other specialties.
Tell Health
Tell Health is a new category of social media: the social media for health. Their vision is social media without the risks. The Tell Health platform is a trustworthy place where verified health experts safely provide their advice and people look for, discuss and share high quality health information.
THYROSCOPE INC.
THYROSCOPE develops Glandy, the world’s first digital monitoring solution for thyroid dysfunction and thyroid eye disease. Glandy detects the risk level of thyroid dysfunction using bio-signal data, such as heart rate collected by wearable devices, enabling patients to receive real-time monitoring of the disease in their daily lives without blood tests. Glandy also provides an AI-based thyroid eye disease monitoring solution. Patients can check the risk level of thyroid eye disease with facial pictures taken by a smartphone camera. THYROSCOPE believes their innovative solution, Glandy, can improve patients’ quality of life as well as cost and treatment effectiveness.
Verto
Verto is a rapidly growing digital health company offering a digital twin orchestration platform. The Verto platform enables health systems and payers to quickly transform relationships with patients, capture patient leakage and reduce digital footprint without disrupting the integrity of existing systems of record. Their patented machine learning approach improves patient experience in weeks rather than months, cutting digital spend by more than 50 percent. They are trusted by large and complex health systems across North America to engage with their populations of millions annually.
Vivante Health
Since 2016, Vivante Health has been revolutionizing digestive health and wellness, one person at a time. Their category-defining digital health solutions provide personalized, comprehensive care for people with digestive conditions. Their all-in-one digestive health program GIThrive® combines clinically-backed interactive tech, targeted nutrition and 24/7 personal support to improve digestive disease outcomes and reduce the cost of care for employers and health plans.
Wellsheet
Wellsheet improves EHR efficiency, clinician well-being and patient care while reducing burnout and length of stay, which can generate financial savings of over a million dollars per hospital. Wellsheet shows key patient information on a single screen, provides real-time notifications and helps doctors, nurses and care managers determine how to best treat each patient for improved patient care quality and safety in an experience that is easy to understand and navigate. These efficient and clinically intuitive workflows have decreased time in the EHR by over 40 percent at large health systems, clinician training takes only minutes and customer satisfaction is 100 percent.
Yobee Care
Yobee Care is a probiotic-personal care company founded by a pediatrician and leading allergy expert Dr. Ruchi Gupta. Strongly rooted in science, Yobee Care utilizes microbiome science and a patented probiotic technology called PROBYOME™, to restore balance to the scalp, hair and skin. Yobee Care’s PROBYOME is a blend of probiotic extracts, honey, turmeric and vitamin B12, which has been clinically proven safe and effective in an FDA-approved clinical trial at Northwestern University. Yobee Care is launching its children and adult haircare line in January 2023.
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