Healthcare entrepreneurs are an essential part of the innovation landscape and they play center stage at several of MedCity’s events. At MedCity INVEST Digital Health virtual conference, held in partnership with Medical Alley, digital health startups presented to judges across four tracks as part of the Pitch Perfect competition: Chronic conditions and value-based care; Tech to improve payer/provider efficiency; Employee benefits and Home health.
We recorded each session and now you can check them out on video!
The latest Pitch Perfect track you can view is Employee Benefits. Investor judges include:
- Jennifer Hartt, Director of Investments, Health & Digital Health, Ben Franklin Technology Partners
- Joel Nelson, Vice President of Innovation, UnitedHealthcare
- Michael Yang, Managing Partner, OMERS Ventures
Startups in the track include:
Beyond Lucid Technologies is the company behind the MEDIVIEW platform electronic patient care record (ePCR) platform, and MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange, which connects Mobile Medical agencies with ~200 hospitals and public health systems to date — in real time, for the first time — including for COVID-19 contact tracing / crew exposure tracking.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
CEO: Jonathon Feit
Headquarters: Concord, CA
CareTribe is an AI powered digital platform that supports the dynamic needs of family caregivers and their loved ones.
CEO: Jeff Jacques
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
DynamicCare Health is a digital care program that helps monitor and motivate people to quit or moderate drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Results from 3 clinical studies have shown that DynamiCare increases quit rates by 2-3x compared to typical treatment. DynamiCare is working with major employers and health plans such as Horizon BCBSNJ, Harvard Pilgrim, Aetna, and Anthem.
CEO: Eric Gastfriend
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Mymedchoices works directly with consumers, self-insured employers and government agencies to save money on their employees’ planned healthcare. Our MMC-Cerebro™ Technology Platform (streamlining processes and enhancing communications) combined with our professionally curated care plans for each patient help improve patient experience and quality of care.
CEO: Mary Schreiber Swenson
Headquarters: Hockessin, DE
Tiatros is a behavioral health and social support platform that combines clinical expertise, peer communities and infinitely scalable technology to advance mental wellbeing and to enable meaningful, sustained behavioral change that helps people live better lives. Salesforce is just one of its accounts.
Co-founders: Kimberlie Cerrone and Seth Norman
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Want to know who won? Click here!
Our sponsors for the conference include: Deloitte, Fredrikson & Byron, and UnityPoint Health Ventures.
Our upcoming virtual conferences include:
ENGAGE at HLTH, October 15: In partnership with HLTH, this track within the conference highlights important issues in the context of patient engagement. Click here to see the agenda — look for the tag, “Patient Engagement Redefined”. Click here to register.
INVEST Population Health, November 16-18: For the second year, MedCity News has partnered with the New Orleans Business Alliance to host an executive summit that zeroes in on population health and highlights where innovation and investment are occurring in the field. Join venture capitalists, payers, hospital transformation leaders, life science companies and tech startups presenting on population health and chronic disease management.. Click here to see the agenda. Click here to register.
INVEST Precision Medicine December 9-11: INVEST Precision Medicine conference will bring together regional and national stakeholders across hospitals, payers, pharma, health IT, and medtech to discuss new developments in precision medicine. The discussion will also explore what needs to happen for more widespread adoption and integration of the innovative technologies that fit under the precision medicine umbrella. Click here to see the agenda. Click here to register.
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