The first track of startups has been selected for the startup contest Pitch Perfect, set to take place at the MedCity INVEST conference in Chicago May 20-21 at the Willis Tower. Finalists for the Consumer/Employer health tech track focus on care coordination and care navigation, the Pitch Perfect theme for this track. Judges for the track include Helen Ciesielski, principal at HC9 Ventures; Amit Aysola, co-founder and managing partner at Create Health Ventures, an early stage venture
fund focused on digital health; and Derek Mazur, director at Cedar Pine, where he leads healthcare services and health
tech investments as a growth equity investor.
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Care Hero seeks to transform the way families access and manage senior care, particularly the complex administrative burdens of finding quality home care. Care Hero addresses these challenges by providing a flexible, affordable platform that pairs families with vetted caregivers while managing essential tasks like payroll, taxes, and compliance. Using AI, it matches caregivers based on skills and availability. it also helps manage ongoing care tasks.
CareYaya Health Technologies Family caregivers face limited and costly options for home care and respite, managing aging loved ones, spouses with serious illnesses, or children with special needs. CareYaya is a technology platform providing an on-demand, personalized, in-home care booking services. CareYaya helps senior citizens, disabled adults, special needs children and their families find the care they need by connecting families with compassionate, motivated college students. This provides affordable care for thousands of families and introduces tens of thousands of energetic individuals into the care workforce.
CHADIS integrates with EHRs to support online screenings ahead of doctor appointments for health, development, behavioral health, and social determinants of health for children, adults and teachers. It offers motivational interviewing guides and post-visit portals for teens separately from parents. It documents guideline-based behavioral healthcare including care plans for ADHD, anxiety, depression and suicide risk. It also does autism screening with the aid of machine learning.
DUOS focuses on helping older adults. It addresses critical gaps in healthcare by taking a holistic approach to health and wellness. It seeks to improve access to programs to reduce food insecurity and improve transportation to appointments, and untapped financial resources. Co-founder and CEO Karl Ulfers wants to use AI to help navigate complex healthcare decisions. This vision extends beyond technology, reshaping the healthcare landscape to ensure older adults and their caregivers can access the support they need.
Health Concierge Inc. helps patients navigate the healthcare system through its AI-based care navigator. It finds doctors, enables users to set up appointments, fill prescriptions, and more. Its approach replicates and improves on the steps taken by individuals. The company can find a user’s ideal doctor by identifying top local doctors and calling them via its voicebot to verify availability, insurance compatibility, and relevant specializations.
PreventScripts seeks to support the drive to integrate behavioral health into primary care. By doing so, PreventScripts wants to address a growing need: guiding patients toward healthier lifestyles without disrupting their already packed clinical schedules. Primary care physicians are losing patients to consumer-based services that often fracture continuity of care. PreventScripts simplifies integrating health behavior modification into primary care by offering a turnkey solution rooted in proven science. This platform enables practices to deliver a continuity of care that reaches under-targeted patients, from young adults entering Medicare with moderate health risks, to those in midlife on the brink of chronic conditions, to teens struggling with obesity, and new mothers adapting to post-partum health challenges.
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