Twelve healthcare startups have been selected to join the business accelerator program in Cleveland.
The startups all use technology to improve healthcare -- from using virtual reality for physical therapy to creating a sensor that monitors sugar levels without drawing blood. The winners will be mentored by Plug and Play and for three months at the Global Center for Health Innovation.
Connie Weisman is the vice president of corporate partnerships for Plug and Play.
鈥淲e鈥檙e hoping after this that Cleveland Clinic might pilot a program; they might do a proof of concept, they might help commercialize the technology. Cleveland Clinic could become a customer of the startup. So, those are the kinds of engagements we鈥檙e looking for," says Weisman.
Cleveland Clinic and , a local business accelerator, helped judge the competition.
Below is the list of the selected startups:
- Alertgy鈥�, , creates monitors to measure glucose levels that don't require drawing blood.
- CancerAid is that provides useful information on symptoms and provides community newsfeeds.
- CloudMedX combines diagnostics and machine learning using lab data, doctors' notes, patient info.
- Gyant鈥�, a self-described "health robot," is that asks users questions and, depending on the typed responses of the patient, offers diagnoses or suggestions for care.
- HealthTensor documentation and the analysis of medical records.
- InsightRX uses .
- KENZEN produces wearable sensors .
- Navimize is of long wait times to see medical experts.
- OWKIN researches medical data using mathematical models to help "."
- Valencell that fit in earbuds, watches and armbands.
- Video Therapy uses motion-tracking devices during live video sessions to .
- VRHealth uses to gather physical therapy patient data.
