A pill bottle that informs doctors of medicine intake.
Cloud-based software improving patient and doctor communication.
Ice packs that instantly take away pain.
Those are just a few of the products that will be on display by nearly two dozen early-stage companies in the Startup Showcase at MedCity CONVERGE, MedCityNews.com’s executive summit on innovation and healthcare on July 9-10 in Philadelphia.
Early-stage innovation is a key focus of CONVERGE, MedCity’s signature conference. The showcase is sponsored by Pfizer, which will meet with every startup in the showcase. In several cases, the showcase attendees will be part of the CONVERGE panels. Plus, along with the startups in the showcase, several dozen early-stage digital health and life science companies have already registered to attend CONVERGE.
Register now to see these innovations up close. Below are the startups in the showcase – a diverse lineup that reflects the opportunities across healthcare.
Adhere Tech has developed a smart pill bottle. This device measures the exact amount of medication within the bottle and the information is relayed to the patient through wireless cloud software. The device requires no setup by the patient and also reminds the patient via text message to take their medicine.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Aidin is a web application that improves the quality of care offered by the post-acute care providers in a hospital’s area. Aidin makes it easy to identify available providers and share quality of care ratings with patients to reduce delayed discharges, improve patient satisfaction, and reduce re-admissions.
As the industry’s first online, direct contracting market, aptitude fosters mutually beneficial, committed purchasing relationships between hospitals and suppliers – ultimately creating a more logical and empowered market environment.
Buzzy4shots.com creates personal pain relief products, empowering patients to control their medical experience. Buzzy combines vibration and unique ice packs to block pain, burning and itching on contact. Other MDEA-winning OTC drug-free pain products proven effective include DistrACTION cards. Buzzy takes the sting out of shots, stings, splinters and more. Sponsored by Global Center for Medical Innovation.
Codex Therapeutics is developing a topical gel from HSP90a protein to substantially reverse chronic wound healing times for diabetic ulcers for which there remains significant unmet clinical need. Our drug candidate, CT-115, has shown potent efficacy in 100% Wound Healing Incidence and near normal Healing Time in mice and pigs.
Award-winning Cognific is a platform for behavioral healthcare providers. Cognific supports patients with the best out-of-office tools available in an engaging & compliance-enhancing way. Cognific is an innovative, enterprise clinical mental health technology, allowing healthcare providers to measure mental health outcomes, manage costs, and increase clinical throughput.
DocASAP is changing the way care providers market their real-time availability to patients and other referring providers. It’s the first solution that enables care providers to publish their accurate profiles and open appointments across multiple channels such as health insurance doctor finders, consumer portals, referring networks and provider’s own web site.
Healthcare Observation Systems‘ camera system allows parents and families who have infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Pediatrics Units to virtually be in the room with the infant. The secure video stream is accessible online 24/7 and keeps parents close to their newborn when they are unable to physically be there.
Solutions HOSPITALIS offers clinical solutions to healthcare providers for the continuous improvement of clinical processes related to patient’s pathway. The company’s Electronic Clinical Assistant (ECA) is supporting the optimization of coordinated care needed to assure information continuity across all providers of the continuum of care which has proven results of better care, better health at better cost.
Infonaut is a privately held health technology company based in Toronto with expertise in disease surveillance, infection prevention and control, using state of the art real-time location system (RTLS) technology. Infonaut has received recognition and acknowledgement from international leaders in hospital infection control, global technology vendors, trade journals, mass-market publications and leading market analysis firms for their unique platform and patented approach to Infection Prevention and Control.
IntelligentM is a Hand Hygiene Compliance Improvement System for healthcare facilities. Use of the iM System results in decreased Healthcare Acquired Infections and their substantial associated costs. IntelligentM’s patent pending solutions include on the spot notifications to healthcare workers for missed hand hygiene opportunities and a detailed compliance reporting at the individual level. Sponsored by StartUp Health.
MEMOTEXT has designed and built the MEMOTEXT PersonoLogic Engine (MPE), a proprietary software engine that receives methodological inputs of patient information, and then segments patients for appropriate, targeted interventions.
Modernizing Medicine developed the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a specialty-specific, iPad-based EMR system to save physicians time through adaptive learning and up-to-date medical knowledge. The EMA Network’s cloud-based approach to collecting and storing patient information enables physicians to create, visualize and consume treatment data to better care for patients.
Neurotrack technology can diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease three to four years before symptoms occur. Based on ground-breaking research, it enables pharmaceutical companies and researchers to recruit qualified candidates for clinical trials, and more effectively measure drug efficacy, speeding up drug discovery and development.
OncoSpire Genomics focuses on the single goal of improving cancer care by discovering and commercializing diagnostic tests that leverage next-generation sequencing. OncoSpire Genomics will seek to discover and commercialize biomarkers for multiple cancer types
Parallax Enterprises, LLC, is a healthcare technology company, dedicated to improving patient safety in the surgical suite. Its CHaRM System, a novel hands-free, gesture-sensitive checklist system, modeled after a fighter pilot’s Heads-Up-Display, is designed to increase communication in the operating room and decrease preventable medical errors
Pepex Biomedical is rapidly becoming a leading technology source of enzymatic biosensors that improve the quality of life for medical device consumers and the quality of care for the industry. Located in Saint Louis, MO since 2006, our history of pioneering concepts includes Alternative Site Testing (AST) and Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring (CGM). Today we are blending technologies such as M2M communications, real time sensor tracking,data analytics and seamless cellular access with painless micro sensors that need no blood droplet.
Preventice is a leading developer of mobile health solutions, including the BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System. Preventice partners with life science companies and health care providers to create solutions that address opportunities related to prescription medication management, cardiac care, sleep apnea, diabetes management, and migraine headaches.
Quick is a biomedical mobile application company specializing in innovative diagnostic and measuring products that incorporate smart devices. Quick is creating noninvasive personal testing platforms that are painless, bloodless and mobile, enabling users to be healthier and safer. Quick’s most strategic area of focus is monitoring patients with diabetes.
Sensory Tech Delivered as a software as a service model CCMe offers a mobile remote clinician management system that allows for increased capacity of registered clinicians working remotely through trained medical assistants. Enabling virtual care teams with CCMe has proven to lower costs for the overall healthcare system, increase community bedside capacity, reduce hospital readmissions for target populations, provide a higher level of professional satisfaction for clinical teams, and most importantly, improved patient care.
Sixth Sense works closely with Pharma and device manufacturers, providing an opportunity to empower e-Patients. We are forging new pathways in healthcare technology, starting with the respiratory disease community.
Vimty is an elegantly designed online tool to help patients and their families understand, collaborate, and make decisions for the last stages of their lives. Vimty simplifies both the topic and the process, enabling members to make decisions as well as create, notarize and store the digital advanced directive all in one sitting, and we team up with patients and their families to “ask” their insurance companies to support them in this activity.
All of those companies have the potential to change the healthcare industry with their new products, but the showcase is only the beginning of the purpose of CONVERGE. Review the agenda, look at our partners and confirmed speakers, and join us at MedCity CONVERGE July 9-10 in Philadelphia.
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