Health tech incubator unveils 10 companies to complete health care boot camp.
Health tech incubator, Healthbox backed by partner Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) launched their second program dedicated to supporting innovative startup companies that respond to healthcare greatest challenges.
Healthbox is now a 16-week program adding an additional two weeks to both the beginning and end of the accelerator. The ten selected startup companies have already completed a two-week, intensive boot camp designed to help them increase their industry knowledge, improve value propositions and refine business models.
Here are the 10 members of the newest Healthbox class:
3Derm Systems is tackling the area of mobile dermatology, a topic that’s become something of a go-to example for risky mobile health applications. 3Derm’s offering currently doesn’t provide automatic feedback, it merely makes it easier for patients to photograph their own skin with a mounted device, which then transmits photographs to a professional for assessment.
Caring In Place is developing a mobile app for people caring for seniors. The app gives the user a questionnaire about the needs of the person being cared for, and from there generates checklists and to-do lists for providing care and support. That list can then be shared among multiple caregivers (like an aged parent’s various children and grandchildren) who can also share care updates on a social stream.
Casagem is focused on mobile tools for the homecare industry. The company will provide tablets and data-processing software tools to make mandatory onsite data collection for homecare nurses easier and more precise.
Cellanyx Diagnostics is using a new set of biomarkers, chips and software to develop a new urine test that could predict prostate cancer.
Epion Health provides a tablet-based point of care system for hospital intake and discharge. “We fully integrate with Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management systems to reduce administrative costs and increase efficiencies,” the company says on their website.
Hospitalytics aims to improve operating room efficiency with software that will predict how likely it is that a room will be needed at a given time, and allow OR managers to allocate staff and managers optimally.
Lean Wagon is (per their website) “a team of engineers, foodies, health specialists, and marketers” with the goal of making it easier to connect with personal health coaching. The company will offer interactive online coaching to employees of companies they work with.
MyProxy is a web platform for creating, managing, and updating advanced directives and healthcare proxies, to help patients prepare for end of life care.
Sensing Strip, a stealth company that doesn’t yet have a website, is apparently building the next big thing in wearable sensors: health sensor tape. According to Healthbox, the tape can use micro-electronics to “sense and wirelessly transmit real-time ambulatory, cardiac, respiratory, or a variety of other data to a smart phone or tablet.”
Theravid is a web-based communication tool for physical therapists to improve patient adherence. The platform uses videos and other web-based demos to educate patients about exercises.
