At the MedCity INVEST conference scheduled for May 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Chicago, the Pitch Perfect competition. Healthcare startups will be challenged to present their companies to a team of investor judges and explain how they solve unsatisfied or insufficiently met needs in healthcare within their allotted time.
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The finalists for the two health tech tracks have been selected. One will focus on tech tailored for payers and hospitals. Another will focus on health technology for consumers and employers.
The judges for the health tech trail for payers and providers, which will be held on Tuesday, May 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. CT include:
- Raffi Boyajian, Director, Cigna Ventures
- Kelsey Maguire, Managing Director, Blue Venture Fund
- Jay Rughani, Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
The judges for the health technology track aimed at consumers and employers, which will be held on Wednesday, May 24 from 1:00 PM to 2:05 PM CT, include:
- Shawn Ellis, Managing Partner, Distributed Ventures
- Prateesh Maheshwari, Managing Director, Maverick Ventures
- Marissa Moore, Investor, OMERS Ventures
Here is a look at the companies
Health tech: Payer/Provider
AccessVR applies virtual reality to medical education. The company works with college and university clients to provide role-playing exercises through standardized patient medical scenarios, 360 video production services, and support for curriculum development and immersive instruction. The goal is to build a library of foundational knowledge that can be shared and adapted by educators across academic disciplines. Among the requests are advising families with decision-making at the end of life and practicing protocols for surgical procedures.
Hucu.ai helps teams stay aligned within and across organizations with real-time, manageable notifications enabled by algorithms and workflow automation. Collaborating healthcare professionals for a given patient can be added and removed on the fly to support care coordination across care settings and situations. Family members are kept in the loop with separate secure communications.
KeyCare is a telehealth company that offers health systems access to a virtual health care workforce on Epic. It does this by partnering with high-quality virtual medical groups working on our optimized Epic instance and using Epic’s interoperability features to make them available to others.
LUMINARE is a healthcare technology solution that helps detect sepsis in patients, a potentially life-threatening condition that requires prompt treatment. It provides real-time alerts to clinicians of patient deterioration and integrates with existing sepsis protocols. The tool uses information from the patient’s chart to quickly identify sepsis and facilitate communication between nurses and other healthcare providers, enabling faster treatment by multidisciplinary teams.
OmniLife Health’s FlowHawk is a communication-centric provider-to-provider clinical workflow automation platform focused on complex care with an initial focus on organ transplantation, organ failure care, and complex cancers.
Repayment simplifies the billing process and ensures increased cash flow and increased patient satisfaction – by offering patients modern, flexible digital-first billing and payment solutions, including interest-free payment plans that offer budget-friendly payment options for patients. It offers patients the flexibility to make payments easily and over time, giving patients access to essential and elective medical care.
Health Tech Consumer / Employer
Digbi Health uses AI to harness clinical, genetic, gut microbiome, food and behavioral signals to target the cause of disease. It provides whole-person customization, including: remote monitoring, CGM monitoring, food or drug treatment, GLP intervention for obesity with pharma reduction and titration, behavioral coaching support, and care coordination through an interdisciplinary virtual care platform.
InView Analytics and consumer-facing InStockRx platform are designed to quickly find drugs in short supply or generic alternatives that may be sitting on pharmacy shelves, connect siled healthcare systems to a centralized inventory hub and enable pharmacists to manage drug shortages better proactively.
July is an AI-powered chronic condition management platform that empowers patients to empower their health while offering healthcare providers insights from sub-episodic health data.
MediKarma offers a personal visualization avatar, a unique health score, and a virtual healthcare assistant to give people access, ownership and activation of their own health.
Partum Health offers online and offline special care for women and families. Patient engagement takes place on their platform through HIPAA-compliant messaging, digital care programs and sharing evidence-based resources, telehealth visits and in-person care, both at home and in the office.
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