New York Digital Health Accelerator Announces Top Pick Companies For 2014
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"We have selected seven early- and growth-stage digital health companies that will be put on a fast track for building a successful business providing technology solutions to the health care industry that will ultimately reduce health costs and improve patient outcomes," said
During the four-month program, participating start-ups will work closely with these senior-level executives to fine-tune and develop their technologies and business strategies through direct mentorship as well as a series of workshops, panel discussions, user-group sessions, networking opportunities, one-on-one meetings and presentations. In addition, these companies receive on average
"The New York Digital Health Accelerator has been instrumental in stimulating health IT innovation in
The program has shown strong success. In its first year, the class has raised
The 2014 Class
AllazoHealth addresses the problem of medication non-adherence by leveraging existing member data to anticipate which patients will not take their medications to predict how best to effectively influence each patient to take their medication. (www.allazohealth.com)
Clinigence's solution—built around clinical data analytics, sematic data aggregation, and predictive modeling—provides real-time clinically-based reports about care gaps which help healthcare providers improve outcomes to proactively address the shift to value-based models and the growing demand for quality patient care. (www.clinigence.com)
Covertix helps healthcare organizations protect and control confidential data shared between patients, healthcare professionals, hospital networks and third party vendors to improve their coordination of care. (www.covertix.com)
iQuartic's technology merges, structures and mines EHR, PBM, claims and mHealth data for analytics that inform and benchmark care based on outcomes/best practices and adjusted population. (www.iquartic.com)
Noom makes software to help people live healthier. For consumers, the Noom Weight Loss Coach, with over 11 million downloads, coaches users on nutrition and exercise. Noom's different patient engagement apps are based on its consumer-facing app. (www.noom.com).
Quality Reviews empowers patients through their flagship product, RateMyHospital.com, a real-time, mobile patient feedback tool. (www.q-reviews.com)
NYeC and the
Investment capital will be provided by
Strategic sponsors of the New York Digital Health Accelerator include
Mentoring will be provided by twenty-three leading healthcare organizations, including insurance companies, medical centers and hospital groups.
The NYDHA was ranked the #1 Health IT Accelerator in the world by the
More information about the New York Digital Health Accelerator is available at www.digitalhealthaccelerator.com.
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