Improving patient handoffs, autotransfusion, Epic alumni and a couple of women-led startups figure into DreamIt Health Baltimore‘s second class of early stage healthcare companies. They will also be the first to occupy its permanent office at a new shared working space.
In a phone interview with DreamIt Ventures Managing Director Jason Hardebeck, he noted that the accelerator has added new partners — University of Maryland in Baltimore, including its medical school, and The Abell Foundation.
He added that DreamIt’s Baltimore headquarters would be in Power Plant Live! in Mosaic Building 113. It will be an anchor tenant at the 16,000 square foot shared workspace facility in the Inner Harbor.
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Here’s a brief look at the six companies taking part in the healthcare accelerator’s four month program:
Baton Health Shift changes are frequently cited as the time when mistakes are most likely to be made in patient care. Baton Health’s mobile application to improve handoffs joins the growing list of communication tools to improve patient safety. The co-founders include the assistant dean for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Harry Goldberg, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Dr. Stephen Milner, director of the Hendrix Burn Research Center and a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery. I’ve seen several approaches to problem geared for nurses and entire care teams, but it will be interesting to see what this group come up with, given their experience.
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Decisive Health Systems based in San Francisco, has developed a software platform that emphasizes helping physicians and patients with shared decision-making. It’s an alumnus of Blueprint Health’s accelerator and won Livestrong’s Big C competition. Its treatment explorer tool for cancer patients matches cancer patient’s lifestyles with the most appropriate corresponding treatment. Its founders include Jonathan Shih and Nathanael Rosidi.
InsightMedi is a photosharing network for healthcare professionals. It’s designed as a collaborative tool for consults and medical education. Among the co-founders are CEO Juan Gonzalez and Luis Rodrigues, the CTO, who hail from Navarra in Spain .
REAL Dietitian from Chicago combines telemedicine and nutrition counseling for patients with chronic conditions. Its CEO is Sidonia Swarm.
Redox is part of the community of health IT startups from Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded by former Epic employees to lower technical barriers to healthcare IT entrepreneurship by making it easier to share data with the electronic health record, according to a description of the company on LinkedIn. NikoSkievaski, a co-founder, also co-founded 100health. Its product seeks to help software developers to rapidly integrate with installed legacy health IT systems through a modern API, according to a statement from DreamIt Health. Other co-founders include James Lloyd, Luke Bonney and Christopher Tobin-Campbell.
Sisu Global Health from Grand Rapids, Michigan develops medical devices for developing countries. Its first product is designed to enable autotransfusion of hemorrhaging patients in the field. The business is led by CEO Carolyn Yarina, the CTO is Gillian Henker and Katie Kirsch is the chief marketing officer.
