BetterDoctor

BetterDoctor is a B2B data-platform that powers the health market with validated doctor data. BetterDoctor’s data platform and validation engine effectively cleans the doctor data, and BetterDoctor APIs distribute this data back to the health care ecosystem.

Persistent Pains

Contact information for physicians is very difficult to maintain, but recent regulations are now making compliance mandatory.

Location San Francisco, CA

Website www.betterdoctor.com

Sensentia

Sensentia’s core technology automatically models the knowledge in any textual document and answers questions against it. Questions are asked and answered in natural language, structured forms or through automated dialogue helping consumers refine their questions. Sensentia’s first product is a fully automatic inquiry system that enables members and payers to verify benefits for healthcare in real time. Inquiries are made through mobile devices, IVR, or the web by text or voice. Our accuracy rate is 95% compared to an average accuracy rate for customer care centers of 38-93%.

Persistent Pains

Customer care centers are inaccurate because they largely rely on human interaction that is plagued by errors and lack of readily available information.

Location San Francisco, CA

Website www.sensentia.com

CareDox

CareDox is a care coordination platform for parents and schools that is one part personal health record and one part integrated EMR. CareDox is automating and streamlining information collection and access to personal health data for the next generation.

Persistent Pains

Personal health records have not been successful because most adults are apathetic about their own care and lack a forcing function to encourage compliance.

Location New York City, NY

Website www.caredox.com

Wenzel Spine

Wenzel Spine offers the patented and 510(k) cleared VariLift® Interbody Fusion System and VariGrip® Laminar Hook System as stand-alone solutions for stabilizing the spine in the treatment of disorders that include disc herniation, degenerative disc disease, adjacent level disease, and spondylolisthesis.  Its products are designed to help surgeons simplify and shorten spine fusion surgery, while providing excellent clinical outcomes for patients and reducing the total cost to health care providers.

Persistent Pains

Traditional fusion procedures require costly, invasive hardware.

Location Austin, TX

Website http://www.wenzelspine.com

Televero Health

Televero Health develops simple, reliable and cost-effective patient population management and mobile health solutions in order to better manage chronic diseases as well as basic health and wellness.

Persistent Pains

Chronic diseases are responsible for 75% of the $3 trillion we spend on healthcare in the US and they affect one out of every two adults, although many of them are preventable.

Location Austin, TX

Website http://www.televerohealth.com

Ortho Kinematics

Ortho Kinematics has partnered with leading scientists and spine surgeons to revolutionize spine motion analysis and improve spine care by commercializing KineGraph VMA Technology – a simple and inexpensive hardware add-on to standard fluoroscopy imaging that works in conjunction with proprietary image recognition software and the patented Motion Normalizer™ to provide surgeons with a wealth of information to assist them in diagnosing and treating back and neck pain.

Persistent Pains

Clinicians fail to properly treat 60% of patients with back pain because current functional diagnostics are highly variable and often ineffective.

Location Austin, TX

Website http://www.orthokinematics.com

Precedent Health

Precedent was founded by industry veterans with a passion to help physicians, hospitals and payers provide high quality patient care in a cost-effective manner. The company’s services include the development and management of comprehensive provider networks which will be positioned to succeed under healthcare reform.  This includes accountable care organizations, health exchanges and other payment reform arrangements and development of single specialty physician networks.

Persistent Pains

Fee-for-service pricing and misaligned incentives drive the high costs and over utilization that have made our $3 trillion healthcare system unsustainable.

Location Brentwood, TN

Website http://www.precedenthealth.com/

Employer Direct

Employer Direct transforms the way self-funded employer health plans purchase healthcare for their members, saving 30-50% on planned medical procedures with the potential to reduce total plan cost by 6-10%. Care coordinators provide a unique medical concierge service by assisting covered members with selecting a provider, scheduling a procedure, transferring medical records, coordinating travel logistics and adhering to discharge protocols.

Persistent Pains

Employers and patients pay too much money for too little care due to fee-for-service payment models.

Location Austin, TX

Website http://www.edhc.com

Alafair

Alafair is developing a proprietary composite, dual-functioning material to provide improved anti-adhesive biomaterial barriers that aid in wound healing and the modulation of the inflammatory response.

Persistent Pains

Post-surgical adhesions are common, life-threatening and cost the US healthcare system $3.4 billion each year because existing anti-adhesion products have low adoption due to poor handling characteristics.

Location Austin, TX

Website http://www.alafairbiosciences.com

IsoStem

IsoStem is commercializing a proprietary bone marrow autograft concentration system that is not only automated and disposable, but also reduces the risk of infections and complications during medical procedures by eliminating the need for costly centrifuges and additional personnel in the operating room.

Persistent Pains

Stem cell autograft adoption is limited by centrifuge technology, which is resource-heavy, costly, requires additional medical personnel and must break the sterile field.

Location Austin, TX

Website

SwipeSense

SwipeSense is a portable, trackable hand sanitation device that enables point-of-care hand hygiene and real-time monitoring of hand hygiene compliance.

Persistent Pains

There are over 2 million hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in the US each year that result in 100K deaths, yet the average hospital has only a 40% hand hygiene compliance rate.

Location Chicago, IL

Website http://www.swipesense.com

OpenMarkets

OpenMarkets is a scalable, SaaS-based purchasing platform for providers that brings price transparency to all providers for everything from anesthesia machines to hospital beds to TVs. OpenMarkets takes a demand-driven approach by aggregating capital equipment needs across its rapidly expanding network of providers who are looking for better ways to control costs, while not disrupting existing supplier relationships or internal purchasing protocols.

Persistent Pains

Healthcare providers pay uneven and inconsistent prices for capital equipment due to resource constraints, inelastic demand and a lack of purchasing power.

Location Chicago, IL

Website http://openmarketshealth.com/

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