Our annual INVEST conference, where investors and startups meet, kicks off today as a virtual event. Rather than a day and a half in-person event, MedCity will highlight the seismic changes in healthcare today through Friday, July 24. Healthcare innovators from health systems and other segments of healthcare will share how they are facing the challenge of delivering care in a pandemic, what they have learned and how they are applying insight aggregated from their own institutions and colleagues at other organizations.
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Here’s what’s on the agenda for the second day of the conference.
At 12:30 pm ET today, a panel discussion will delve into the topic of digital health in the age of Covid-19. During the Covid-19 crisis, digital health has been a vital resource for care delivery. How have hospitals used digital health tools to address the surge of Covid-19 cases and what insights can be gained from this experience to inform the future of these digital health applications?
The moderator for this panel will be Mike Sutten, Innovaccer Digital Health Officer. Panelists include:
- Aaron Martin, Providence St. Joseph Health Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer;
- Roberta Schwartz, Houston Methodist Hospital Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer;
- Eric Spaulding, Highmark Health Director of Digital Customer Experience;
- Prat Vemana, Kaiser Permanente Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer
Next, starting at 3:30 pm, we will have five health IT startups pitch in the first track of the INVEST Pitch Perfect competition. This track is sponsored UnityPoint Health. They include:
Luma Health is designed to modernize access, automate patient-provider communications, and help providers grow their business. It enables the transmission of automated text messages that keep patients in touch with their providers, allows them to ask questions specific to their health, and make appointments directly from their phone to get the care they need at the right time.
CEO: Adnan Iqbal
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
PrefTech is a digital healthcare company that seeks to revolutionize preference card management. PrefTech’s initial product offering, PrefTech OR, is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides the decision analytics and workflow governance necessary to correct, maintain, and optimize supply utilization within the perioperative suite.
CEO: Matthew Boehm
Headquarters: Fairfax, VA
Health Note auto documents medical notes, capturing symptoms, medication, demographics, and signatures from its chatbot. It asks questions a doctor would ask, using algorithms to create a billable note, and syncing data to an electronic medical record (EMR). It uses FHIR, HL7, and APIs to enter information the company gathers into an EMR accurately and into the required structured data fields.
CEO: Joshua Reischer MD
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Innovative Supply Solutions uses cloud software to optimize how much drug and other material is needed for a clinical trial, as well as the setup and management of the resulting clinical supply chain.
CEO: Adam Warren
Headquarters: Southampton, PA
E-Health Now focuses on optimizing the management plans for cancer patients in China, from initial virtual tumor board joint consultations, treatment delivery, to follow-up care. The company has a network of more than 800 oncologists/hematologists in the U.S., working with five top academic institutions, a HIPAA-compliant EHR platform, patented machine learning technology, and treatment centers that focus on several sub-specialties of oncology/hematology that has significant clinical gaps between China and the U.S.
CEO: Kelly (Bingyu) Xu
Headquarters: Philadelphia, PA
The judges include:
- Christine Brocato, CommonSpirit Health System Vice President for Strategic Innovation;
- Austin Duke, Ph.D., UnityPoint Health Ventures Venture Associate;
- Robert Garber, 7wire Ventures Partner
Check out all the participants in the Pitch Perfect competition here.
Each day of the week will feature a pitch competition highlighting five startups in different tracks. Presenters will highlight their vision for changing healthcare followed up by a Q&A with the investor judges. Winners for each track will be announced on July 27 on our website.
All the sessions will be recorded and will be available to attendees upon request.
For questions about this event, contact Laura Kittredge at lkittredge@breakingmedia.com
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