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 Home Health. Investor judges include:
Cheryl Cheng, General Partner, BlueRun Ventures
Austin Duke, Ph.D., Senior Venture Associate, UnityPoint Health Ventures
Marlon Evans, CEO, Nex Cubed
The startups include:
AireHealth is a virtual respiratory care company offering an in-home solution for at-risk, vulnerable, respiratory populations that can significantly improve outcomes, lower costs and reduce hospitalizations.
CEO: Stacie Ruth
Headquarters: Winter Park, FL
Elanza Wellness is a virtual nursing assistant service for fertility clinics that automates and augments aspects of care, aimed at radically improving patient experience whilst increasing throughput and saving time for clinics.
Co-founders: Catherine Hendy and Brittany Hawkins
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Face2Face Health integrates health literacy e-learning courses; telemedicine access to multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, educators & advocates; expert-led webinars; & web-forum communities for sharing knowledge & support across 5 pillars of care: General Health, Emotional Health, Development, Mind/Body/Nutrition, and Education/Advocacy.
CEO: Ami Shah
Headquarters: New York, NY
Omcare is digital health company pioneering a product platform that enables remote care in the home, extends the reach of caregivers, and redefines medication adherence.
CEO: Lisa Lavin
Headquarters: Burnsville, MN
Vigilant Diagnostics LLC, founded in 2014, has developed patented Thermal Contrast Technology (TCA) that increases the sensitivity of Lateral Flow Assays (LFAs) by 10 to 250 times, allowing for faster and more accurate diagnostic results, with fewer false negatives and false positives. The company’s patent was developed at the University of Minnesota.
Co-CEOs: Richard C. Carlson and Frank F. Jiang, MD, PhD
Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN
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.
