UHC and AVIA have partnered to launch the 2nd Annual UHC Startup Challenge: Innovation Delivered, a competition which provides five digital health care startups the opportunity to pitch a new health care innovation in front of a live audience for a chance to win a $10,000 grand prize.
The five presenting companies were selected through collaboration with UHC, a Chicago-based consortium of 118 leading academic medical centers and over 300 of their affiliated hospitals, and AVIA, the innovation accelerator for health care providers.
Each entrepreneur must prove their innovation is most beneficial to the health care industry and be judged by more than 1,800 health care professionals at “Revolution,” UHC’s 2014 Annual Conference, which will take place October 23-24 in Las Vegas. A panel of health care experts will moderate questions from the conference audience of leaders from the nation’s academic medical centers. Audience votes will be tabulated in real-time with the winner being announced at the conclusion of the competition. The winning company will receive the grand prize, along with advisory support from AVIA and UHC.
“These five companies have the potential to make unprecedented improvements to how healthcare is delivered in America,” said Linda Finkel president of AVIA. “We’re very excited to see each of them in action at Revolution.”
“We’re pleased to co-host the 2014 UHC Startup Challenge with AVIA,” said Irene M. Thompson, UHC’s president and chief executive officer. “The UHC Startup Challenge showcases the newest advancements in our industry, and sparks more ideas to transform health care. Through platforms like this competition, we continue to collaborate with our members to drive the revolution in health care.”
“As with the first competition, we’re committed to continuing to foster the adoption of innovative new products with the potential to revolutionize health care,” Finkel added.
The five digital health care finalists include:
- CaptureProof: a HIPAA compliant solution for patients and clinicians to track healing progress and communicate through sharing of photos, videos and notes with the entire team.
- Pervasive
Health: presenting Apervita, a secure self-service platform-as-a-service that enables any health professional to connect health datasets, author evidence-based algorithms, protocols, guidelines, and measures, share them, and publish to a marketplace.
- RightCare Solutions: RightCare software, which assesses the risk and needs for all patients at admission, recommends the right level of post-acute care and applicable community-based services, automates referrals to post-acute care providers, and enables in-depth tracking and monitoring of high-risk patients across the continuum of care, including in the home.
- Skylight Healthcare Systems: a platform that engages and empowers the patient while addressing the hospitals’ needs in clinical efficiency, IT integration, and patient experience.
- Wisercare: a patented, private online experience that incorporates a patient’s clinical situation and personal values, WiserCare generates personalized, evidence-based guidance on what treatment options fit best.
Contact
AVIA
Nicole Winokur
Director of Marketing
312.999.9600
nwinokur@www.aviahealthinnovation.com
