The MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Minneapolis September 17, in association with Medical Alley, will advance the conversation around innovation in digital health in a few different ways. Taking center stage will be the startups and growth stage healthcare companies participating in the Pitch Perfect competition. Their technologies span care coordination, communication, automation, and remote patient monitoring.
Judges for the Pitch Perfect competition include:
Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Alyssa Jaffee, vice president with 7wire Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in Series A healthcare companies, driven by a thesis that future leaders of healthcare will empower an informed connected health consumer.
Blake Wu is a principal with NEA, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world. NEA has a diversified, one-fund model across both technology and healthcare. The firm invests across the spectrum, including company incubation, seed, venture and growth equity.
Pamela York is a co-founder and general partner of Capita3, an early stage venture capital group investing in diverse teams, with an emphasis on women-led startups at the seed and Series A level.
Each of them offered pitching advice to healthcare startups in the run-up to the event — you can read about their insights here.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Ambient Clinical Analytics uses licensed Mayo Clinic technologies for the real-time clinical analytics software systems it sells to hospitals to reduce overall health care costs and improve patient outcomes.
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Bardy Diagnostics has developed cardiac patches for remote patient monitoring. Designed to be worn comfortably and discreetly, the patch is placed on the center of the chest, directly over the heart for optimum ECG signal collection. It is designed to detect and record P-waves, the signal of the ECG waveform for accurate arrhythmia diagnosis.
Care Angel is designed to provide an efficient, scalable way to engage, monitor and manage large, at-risk populations with complex and chronic conditions. It offers a care coordination tool to collect accurate patient data consistently. It also provides regular updates on vitals and well-being to help inform and manage real-time interventions.
Clairvoyant Networks is a software as a service business with a location and condition sensing platform that tracks movement, monitors conditions, and makes person-related event and status data visible, able to analyzed, and actionable. The software, aimed at caregivers, physicians and other care team members, provides monitoring, data collection and predictive analysis that can be used across the entire progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
OneMedNet made a strategic pivot in 2018 to focus its energies on image data monetization and mining. It developed a “Data Broker” tool — a combination of technology and services that enable the de-identification, indexing, and curation of clinical image archives.
Oxitone Medical is an Israeli-US company offering a turn-key, AI-based continuous care solution for patients with chronic conditions.
Phraze was founded by a multidisciplinary team of physicians, data scientists, and software engineers with experience taking scalable healthcare software to market. They developed a solution aimed at reducing excessive data entry and documentation associated with electronic medical records. Its scribe automates data entry for physicians to help them reclaim their professional identity, save up to 1.5 hours per day, and generate more monthly revenue.
RISEcx launched CareSpace, a healthbot-authoring platform powered by AI and machine learning to deliver personalized care pathways through a HIPAA compliant delivery system.
Sonaris has developed an AI-guided ultrasound intended to be used by non-skilled users in clinics anywhere for vital screening tests, without the need for having skilled technicians and radiologists on site.
UnaliWear provides discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and a guard against wandering in the form of a voice-first, classically styled watch.
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