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Big data, mobile health entrepreneurs in StartUp Health’s new class get GE mentors

Among 400 applications from 22 countries, 13 early stage healthcare companies have been chosen for […]

Among 400 applications from 22 countries, 13 early stage healthcare companies have been chosen for a three-year entrepreneurship class run by StartUp Health and GE, according to a statement from the companies. The class members will each be assigned a GE mentor who matches their business model and get access to the resources the Fortune 50 company can wield to help scale their consumer health innovations. That could include working with GE Healthymagination, GE Healthcare, GE Capital, or some of its business units, depending on the members’ specific needs.

The companies are:

Arpeggi: The Austin, Texas-based big data analytics company takes its name from a musical term that involves the sounding of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, which could symbolize the genomic sequencing data the company hopes to translate into actionable information for its clients.

Aver Informatics: Another big data company, the Green Bay, Wisconsin, business wants to work with healthcare organizations to convert their enterprise data into insights that can help lower their costs and improve care.

Care at Hand: The Boston-based mobile health company‘s target market is elderly home care. Its alert system is intended to help home healthcare workers make health observations through a technology platform and alert supervising nurses for early disease detection.

Caremerge: A care coordination business, the Chicago-based company is focused on the senior care market and sets out to help ensure smooth transitions and improved communication between families, caregivers, providers and patients using mobile apps.

Cerora: The company’s portable diagnostic device with a built-in EEG is designed to measure brain activity, particularly for signs of a concussion from high school and college athletics. The technology from the Philadelphia-based business would be used by physicians, certified athletic trainers, nurses and emergency medical technicians.

Doctor.com: The New York-based company’s health IT platform is designed to be used by a database of more than 2.5 million providers to highlight their services and connect with new patients. In turn, patients could use the service to compare providers and schedule appointments.

GetHealth: The New York company offers a mobile and online platform with the goal of increasing employee engagement in workplace wellness programs. GetHealth, which also has a base in Ireland, wants its users to think of it as “Foursquare for Health.” Users check in to their daily health tasks and can earn points for achieving personalized health goals.

GoGo Health: The Atlanta-based company offers a patient engagement tool in which users describe their symptoms to a provider and get medical advice, a diagnosis and prescription through a computer or mobile device. The company’s clinical protocols software uses algorithms to collect symptoms and the patient’s medical history, and formulate question-and-answer choices for patients saved as part of the patient’s electronic health records.

IntelligentM: The company, split between Sarasota, Florida, and New York, has set out to improve clinical hand hygiene monitoring in healthcare settings in an effort to reduce hospital-acquired infections, improve outcomes for patients and costs for providers.

itMD: Helping to improve patients’ access to their medical imaging records is the goal of the cloud-based medical image sharing company based in Miami.

OxiTone Medical: The Israel-based business wants to improve patient safety by enabling early clinical response to acute pulmonary or cardiac dysfunction symptoms through continuous monitoring of pulse oximetry.

TalkSession: Helping people find and connect with behavioral health professionals that suits their needs is the goal of the New York-based company.

WalkJoy: The focus of the Long Beach, California, business is to restore balance, gait and reduce falls for people with peripheral neuropathy and the elderly.

 

 

 

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