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Startups with tech to improve payer and provider efficiency: Video from MedCity INVEST Digital Health

This Pitch Perfect contest track reflected technology to remove financial barriers for their patients, automating workflows, reducing inefficiency and waste associated with the Prior Authorization process, and more.

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 Tech to Improve Payer/Provider Efficiency. Investor judges include:

Startups in the track include:

Advocatia seeks to dramatically impact uncompensated care for hospitals by removing financial barriers for their patients. Advocatia’s proprietary algorithms help identify resources and enroll individuals in programs and low-cost healthcare insurance, so they are prepared when they need it and no longer have to delay care. At the core of its program is a technology that is designed to ensure all eligible individuals receive the coverage they are qualified for including Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, programs through the Health Exchange Marketplace, and other state and local resources.

CEO: Ryan Brebner

Headquarters: Lake Bluff, IL

Asparia, formerly known as SimplifiMed, automates all workflows typically requiring a phone call between the patient and staff. These include closing care gaps, appointment management, pre and post procedure follow-up, referral management, and contact-less office visits among others. The solution,  embedded in the EHR (e.g. Epic, Cerner), engages patients using interactive texting in over 100+ languages.

CEO: Kamal Anand

Headquarters: Saratoga, CA

Itiliti Health focuses on inefficiency and waste associated with the health industry Prior Authorization (PA) process. Its translates payer medical policy details into a structured database to enable real time queries to determine policy requirements. its product also matches clinical data to the specified requirements to determine if a prior authorization is required.

CEO: Michael Lunzer

Headquarters: Eden Prairie, MN

Moxe automates the release of information to payers for risk adjustment, quality management and payment denials with the goal of  removing cost, enhancing the accuracy of reimbursement, and speeding up revenue.

CEO: Dan Wilson

Headquarters: Madison, WI

RxHealth, a spinoff from the Mount Sinai Health System – brings the first enterprise-wide, digital medicine delivery system that enables providers to prescribe evidence-based mobile health applications, multi-media education, wearables, and therapeutics to patients at the point of care. Rx.Health’s flagship platform, RxUniverse, is cloud-based HIPAA compliant platform that aggregates the most effective digital medicine solutions available on the market onto a single platform to address the fragmentation in the digital health space.

CEO: Ed Berde

Headquarters: New York, NY

Want to know who won? Click here!

Our sponsors for the conference include: DeloitteFredrikson & Byron, and UnityPoint Health Ventures.

Our upcoming virtual conferences include:

ENGAGE at HLTHOctober 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 agendaClick 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 agendaClick here to register.

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