In a series of articles to promote INVEST 2025 in Chicago April 29-30, we are highlighting investment insights and perspectives in the runup to the boutique event for traditional and strategic healthcare investors and startups. Register today!
Last fall, AWS announced that it was launching a new accelerator to support startups that develop technology to help the healthcare sector address its challenges with workforce deployment, retention and training. At ViVE, the company unveiled which 23 startups have been selected to take part in the accelerator.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
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Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures and Village Capital launched their first accelerator focused on culturally competent care this summer. Two startups were each awarded $100,000: Omaiven Health and Lucia Health Guidelines.
The accelerator, created by Amazon Web Services, will pick 10 healthcare startups in the U.S. using cloud-based services. To start, it will focus on solutions like remote patient monitoring, voice technology, analytics, patient engagement, and virtual care.
The Boston-based accelerator will match 27 health tech startups with industry leaders for the six-month program.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
The program is open to early-stage health tech and fintech startups that are pre-Series A, less than five years old and have less than $1 million in revenue. The application deadline is 5 PM PT on July 31, 2019.
Through the accelerator, the companies, which tackle issues like hand injuries, remote patient monitoring and sexual health, will get the chance to develop or optimize new products, license intellectual property and sponsor research and clinical studies.
The goal of the accelerator, which will be on Mayo's Jacksonville, Florida campus, is to identify, develop and commercialize products, solutions and services that will help patients and providers.
The program from IBM Israel and Hadassah Medical Center, which will begin in the first quarter of 2019 and last six months, is open to startups that have completed a post-seed round of financing, according to Israeli publication Globes.
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The startups in the accelerator's fall 2018 cohort, which will go through a 13-week program, are bringing their expertise to a plethora of areas in healthcare, including education, nursing homes, athletics and NICUs.
Karen Griffith Gryga of Dreamit Ventures is one of a group of investors who will discuss investing in cancer treatment innovation at the MedCity CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia this week.
StartUp Health has hired a COO from the military to help manage its network of healthcare startups, investors and partner companies and organizations, which spans 20 countries, as well as its future plans to expand into new markets.
The change follows the departure of Omkar Kulkarni, who previously served as director of the program. He became the first chief innovation officer for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles earlier this month.
The Invertex deal marks the second acquisition for Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based health tech and life science accelerator in its fifth year.