A mobile health startup that integrates clinically relevant mobile devices in a physical exam is one of nine teams chosen for DreamIt Ventures’ Baltimore health IT accelerator. DreamIt has also added Kaiser Permanente as a strategic partner, according to a company statement. The Baltimore accelerator class comes roughly one year after the start of DreamIt Health class in Philadelphia.
In addition to contributing funds to the program, Kaiser Permanente is working with the nine companies to provide access to its executives, subject matter experts, clinicians, data, systems and potential pilots as a strategic partner to the companies in the program, according to an emailed statement from Dr. Elliot Menschik. Menschik, who co-ran the Philadelphia program with DreamIt Ventures Managing Partner Karen Griffith Gryga, is running the Baltimore class.
The health IT companies will participate in a four-month boot camp that combines mentoring from entrepreneurs with access to resources from the region’s healthcare ecosystem and program partners. They will each receive up to $50,000 in exchange for an equity stake in their business.
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Kaiser Permanente is working with DreamIt Ventures Baltimore accelerator as part of a strategic partnership alongside Johns Hopkins University, Northrop Grumman and corporation and economic development organization BioHealth Innovation.
Five of the nine companies are based in Baltimore, including Smartphone Physical:
- Aegle: Wearable biometric devices
- Avhana: Next generation clinical decision support for the electronic health record
- EMOCHA: Mobile capture of data for medication adherence and clinical trials
- Protenus: Digital management of patient consent and other administrative workflows
- Patient Feed: (Pittsburgh and New York City): Collaboration tool for inpatient care
- Phobious (Barcelona, Spain): Treatment of behavioral health issues through mobile, augmented reality
- Cognuse (Talinn, Estonia): Cognitive rehabilitation of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients through mobile games
- Respi (Athens, Greece): Smartphone-based spirometry and respiratory data platform
