Startupbootcamp Digital Health Miami, an innovation program and fund, announces the 13 companies that will be joining their second cohort.
The cohort was selected after an intensive two-day evaluation and selection process on November 17-18.The 13 selected startups were chosen from over 300 applicants that applied during the recruitment months.
Teams pitched their businesses to over 100 healthcare executives, investors and mentors industry experts from Startupbootcamp’s corporate partners such as Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and Accenture as well as representatives from Marsh, Towers Watson, Philips, UnitedHealthCare, Zaffre Investments, Mayo Clinic, CVS Health, Optum, Carolinas Healthcare, Catholic Health Services, Thorek, Health Choice Network, University of Miami and Baptist Health. These representatives also mentored the participating companies and explored collaboration opportunities.
The 13 selected startups:
- B.well: is a consumer centered health management platform designed to deliver what consumers want and monetize to what payors, employers and providers need.
- BrainFX: BrainFX 360 assessment is a web and tablet based assessment of Neurofunction that measures complex cognitive skills using real world context.
- Cybexys: proprietary platform CARAT uses a natural language processing to detect details that humans might miss when they are processing unstructured information from a clinician’s narrative and trying to properly code the severity level of each patient disease state.
- Empower Capital: is a financial engineered HSA plus program that ensures liquidity to all employees with high deductible plans.
- Epharmix: creates and validates disease-specific “digital interventions” to help care teams manage and support medically underserved patient populations across twenty of the most expensive and difficult medical indications.
- FRND: is a platform used to connect MDs, payors, and providers to a network of mobile practitioners for housecalls.
- HealthTensor: clinically-validated algorithms automatically diagnose and create documentation from patient data, saving physicians time, improving patient care, and improving note accuracy for coding and billing.
- NarrativeDx: collects patient feedback and satisfaction data from internal sources, discharge surveys, HCAHPS surveys, social media channels, and physician review websites.
- NeuraMetrix: has developed a technology, based on typing cadence, to detect and monitor the progression of brain diseases, disorders and injuries by measuring human cognitive and motor function at the sub-clinical level based on significant capabilities in quantitative methods and proprietary software.
- Quick’rCare: is the only platform focused on assisting patients find the shortest wait time at an ER or Urgent care, and hold their place in line.
- SaveMyScope: has created a mobile phone adapter and application on the App Store that removes the need for physicians to use bulky, expensive video towers.
- Twiage: allows EMTs and paramedics to collect and send high-quality prehospital data instantly via a smartphone.
- Wellth: is focused on improving adherence and decreasing readmissions by helping patients change their behaviors so they get better faster.
Founder and General Partner Christian Seale, commented “We are proud to see this set of companies build on our first cohort with greater diversity of founders, product category, stage, geography and revenue. Miami is poised to become recognized as a global hub for healthcare innovation.”
“Startupbootcamp continues to help fill important gaps in our innovation ecosystem by attracting new talent to Miami and providing a platform for startups to scale and grow. This second cohort of entrepreneurs will bring fresh ideas and energy to our city, adding to the momentum of our expanding startup community,” said Chris Caines, interim program director for Miami at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a Startupbootcamp supporter, which helped bring the accelerator program to the United States in 2015.
The program kicks off on January 15, 2017 when the startups will relocate to Miami. The program offers participating companies partnerships with leading hospital systems, insurers and pharma to accelerate and scale their businesses, extensive mentoring from over 150+ healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in addition to six months of free office space and seed funding.
Founded in 2010, Startupbootcamp is an award winning global network of industry-focused accelerator programs with 20+ programs in Europe, Asia, North & South America, MENA & Africa.
In Miami, Startupbootcamp has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami Children’s Hospital, Univision and private healthcare investors for its innovation program and seed fund focused on transforming healthcare from Miami. To date, the Miami program has invested in twelve companies from across the US, Latin America and Israel.
For more visit: http://www.startupbootcamp.org/accelerator/digital-health-miami/