HITLAB TEAM • November 30, 2023
Innovators presented their health solutions during the Digital Health Summit in NYC
Today HITLAB announced the winners of its Fall 2023 Breakthrough Alliance (BTA) Innovator’s challenge. The BTA is a digital health consortium founded in partnership with New York City Economic Development Corporation and was created to accelerate the optimal adoption of digital health innovations through shared evidence, communication, and perspectives to improve health outcomes, access and care delivery.
The finalists, who were selected based on innovation, scalability, sustainability and impact of their solution, included Soliddd, BUDDI AI, Neurametrix, TauSpan Technologies, and Factually Health.
There was a total of 485 applicants from around the world. Each was reviewed and scored by a panel of independent judges and Breakthrough Board Members. Five finalists were selected.
The five finalists presented their digital health solutions to a panel of judges during HITLAB’s November 2023 Innovator’s Summit at Columbia University in NYC.
The judges included:
- Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, President and BTA Chair, Bill Taranto
- Viatris,Head Global Analytics and Real World Evidence, Kelly Zou
- Sanofi, Digital Healthcare Medical Head, Felix Lee
- Biolabs @ NYU Langone, Director, Glennis Mehra
- Kroger Health, Chief Nursing Officer, Meggen Brown
1st Place – Soliddd
2nd Place – Buddi AI
3rd Place - NeuraMetrix
All three winning solutions will be further supported in validation studies conducted by the HITLAB Research and Evaluation team. They will also receive an opportunity to present with other industry leaders at one of HITLAB’s monthly Digital Health Symposia. The 1st and 2nd place winners will additionally receive published articles.
“HITLAB has hosted over 20 BTA challenges, examining thousands of high-potential candidates over the last 9 years, said Stan Kachnowski, Chair of HITLAB and Director Digital Health Program, Columbia University. “We’ve had the opportunity to work with many amazing start-ups, providing them with research and valuable growth opportunities. A large portion of the BTA winners have gone on to accelerated success and funding. We look forward to working with the latest winners to help create exposure for their solutions.”
Summary of Winners and Honorable Mentions:
Solidddcorp: An optical technology company that has developed the world’s first low-vision aid for macular degeneration that actually provides sight to those areas of the visual field where sufferers previously have been blind.
BUDDI AI: A leading Generative AI Platform vendor for healthcare. Our unique expert model combines specialty-specific rules with active learning for unparalleled coding accuracy and streamlined billing. With flexible input formats and seamless EMR integration, BUDDI AI empowers healthcare organizations to enhance revenue, achieve compliance, and drive efficiency.
Nuerametrix inc: Provides a continuous non-invasive remote monitoring solution that is a vital sign for mental health and neurodegeneration. It is based on our strongest habit, typing. When the hard wiring of the brain breaks down, we can see this in typing behavior. It is available to anyone anywhere and on any device.
TauSpan Technologies: TauSpan Technologies provides high-definition care, physician-designed, AI-driven point-of-care decision support platform consuming EHR and other data to predict and mitigate high impact patient adverse events calibrated with a hospital’s own patient data to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs and capture reimbursement.
Factually Health: Factually Health builds innovative AI-driven tools that access a proprietary, automated system for factual health information. These tools are seamlessly shared with patients on any web/app platform, empowering patients to search only factual info on their disease, while enterprises/organizations gain engagement, eyeballs, and valuable insights from their patients searches.
About HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance
HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance is an accelerator that helps early-stage startups conduct rapid pilot studies to test their products and move closer to market. Selected startups have their technologies tested in pilot studies with clinical partners and patients, gathering the data needed to accelerate their concepts. To source startups, Breakthrough holds open innovation competitions and networking events that bring together the digital health and investment ecosystem.
Breakthrough is membership-based and board members represent the best organizations in health
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