HX360 has announced the four companies selected as finalists in the HX360 Innovation Challenge competition. These companies, selected from an original field of eighty-three entries, will present their solutions live before a judging panel of senior health system executives, HIT executives and venture capitalists during the Innovation Challenge programme at the HX360 inaugural event. The four finalists are: ClockwiseMD, Ginger.io, Wellframe and WiserCare.
The HX360 Innovation Challenge live pitch takes place at the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, McCormick Place in Chicago, on Tuesday, April 14, from 2:30 to 4:30pm. Judging will be based on a number of criteria, including improved patient satisfaction, increased patient convenience and access to care, better access to health information, patient empowerment, proof of positive impact and market readiness. Technical considerations include interoperability with existing IT systems, workflow impact, superior user interface and scalability. Two winning companies will be selected.
The four HX360 Innovation Challenge finalists have demonstrated their ability to improve patient engagement and the patient experience at hospitals and health systems. These companies are:
Clockwise.MD: lets patients check in online from any web-enabled device and skip the waiting room. It keeps them informed of their expected wait time by text message, and frees them from having to sit in the waiting room. It addresses the three things patients dislike about waiting: waits of an uncertain duration, waits that are not explained and waits that are perceived as unfair.
Ginger.io: brings the power of big data to behavioral health. Using machine learning analytics and passive data collected through smartphone sensors, Ginger.io identifies patterns in behavior that may impact a patient’s health and well-being. That insight is then shared with patients and their care teams to help better manage health conditions and improve treatment plans.
Wellframe : a clinically proven technology platform that converts evidence-based clinical protocols into simple, interactive, multimedia daily health checklists for patients using a mobile device. Wellframe tracks every patient’s interaction with their care plan and securely shares these data in real-time with a patient’s clinician via Wellframe’s patent-pending, HIPAA-compliant private cloud and clinician dashboard.
WiserCare: uses a patented intelligent agent to analyse the patient’s clinical situation, quality of life preferences and treatment goals, and provide personalised, quantified, evidence-based guidance on what treatments fit best. This equips patients and physicians to act as decision partners in ways other tools and approaches simply can’t.
The two winning companies will each be given access to $75,000 in prize money and legal services that will be used to fund new pilot programms at U.S. not-for-profit health systems using the winning teams’ products and services. The winning companies will operate their pilots at healthcare systems to be identified by AVIA, the provider-led healthcare accelerator that co-founded HX360 with HIMSS.
Live judging will be conducted by an expert panel of thought leaders, including: Dr. Molly Coye, chief innovation officer, UCLA Health System; Steve Meurer, senior VP, business development and product innovation, UHC; Dr. Aenor Sawyer, Assoc. director, strategic relations, UCSF Center for Digital Health; Barbara Spurrier, administrative director, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation; Bob Reese, senior VP, global partner, Healthcare Transformation Services, Philips Healthcare; and Glen Tullman, managing partner, 7Wire Ventures. Lisa Suennen, managing partner, Venture Valkyrie Consulting, will serve as emcee. Judges who voted on the semi-finalists and four finalists, represent some of the nation’s health systems, venture capital firms and market innovators.
The HX360 Innovation Challenge is made possible through the sponsorship and support of Morrison & Foerster, Philips, Providence Health Systems, McKesson Ventures, the California Health Care Foundation, Azul7, HLM Venture Partners, Matchpoint Partners, and Chrysalis Ventures.
The inaugural HX360 event, co-developed by HIMSS and AVIA, puts a spotlight on the adoption and implementation of next generation (non-EHR) technologies to improve care delivery, collaborations that optimise the innovation cycle in healthcare technology, and the processes and structures health systems will require to leverage these technologies. This year’s HX360 exhibit floor will highlight health technologies that aim to improve provider efficiencies and clinical workflow, patient experience, care coordination for disease and patient retention and acquisition. Speakers, interactive exhibits and special events will also address Contemporary Provider Challenges identified by health systems, including in a tech-enabled environment, nurturing health-technology entrepreneurship, and creating value in healthcare delivery.
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