Cool Health Tech Startups

Wearable Computing:

Company:  Product

Generating Data  (wearables, intelligence from sensors):

1. mc10
2. Scanadu:  Scout
3. Jawbone:  UP
4. Misfit Wearables:  Shine
5. FitBit
6. Basis
7. Lark
8. Pebble Watch
9. Nike:  Fuel Band
10. Apple:  iWatch?
11. Rest Devices
12. Zephyr Technologies
13. Sano Intelligence:  building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device
    

Analyzing Health Data:

1. Ginger.io:  not wearables, but using data from current devices for behavioral analytics
2. PanGenX

Managing Health Data:

1. Castlight
2. Practice Fusion
3. Audax
4. Omada Health
5. WearMD
6. Zephyr Health
7. Lumiata
8. Ayasdi (big data company)
9. Comprehend Health Systems
10. Human API
11. Validic
12. Reify Health
13. Syapse

Remote Medical Diagnostics

1. AliveCor:  mobile ECG
2. CardioSleeve:  mobile enabled stethoscope
3. Cellscope:  mobile ear infection diagnostic
4. Mobisante
5. SmartMonitor
6. Sense.ly
7. Factor 14 

Fabric monitoring:

1. Rest devices
2. Owlet
3. Sproutling

Apps

1. Azumio
2. Medwhat
3. Healthtap

Biomonitoring:  Personalized diagnostics and medicine

1. Proteus
2. Dexcom
3. PanGenX 
4. CardioDx:  cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company
5. Glooko

Genetic Testing

1. Natera
2. Ariosa
3. Counsyl
4. 
   

Crowdsourcing

1. Crowdmed: crowdsource diagnosis of disease

Improving Communication/ Physician experience

1. Doximity
2. Cureus : open source publishing of medical journals

Interesting Reads on Innovation in Health

Interesting Reads on Healthcare Innovation

1. White paper by Frog Design on Healthcare Innovation http://www.frogdesign.com/files/pdf/Future-of-Healthcare.pdf
2. California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF): Greenhouse Effect: How Accelerators Are Seeding Digital Health Innovation
   http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/02/seeding-digital-health
   
   
3. Making Sense of Sensors:  How New Technologies Can Change Patient Care
   http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/02/making-sense-sensors
   
   
4. From Stanford Social Innovation Review:  Importance of partnerships not investment as the key to healthcare innovation and new markets. http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/big_business_and_healthcare_its_not_about_the_money
5. McKinsey Report on the The Big Data Revolution in US Health carehttp://www.mckinsey.com/insights/health_systems_and_services/the_big-data_revolution_in_us_health_care
6. Accenture's Report on 'The Digital Doctor is "In" http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-digital-doctor-is-in.aspx
7. Rock Health's Mid Year Funding Update: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/23728823?rel=0
8. Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Making: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.2158.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.2158.pdf
9. Owning the Disease, Transformational Business Model for Healthcare:
   http://www.pwc.com/us/en/health-industries/publications/owning-the-disease.jhtml

July 2013 Health Tech Innovation

July 2013 Articles of Interest on Health Tech Innovation

1. MC10's BioStamp: The New Frontier of Medical Diagnostics http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-13/mc10s-biostamp-the-new-frontier-of-medical-diagnostics
2. Blog on a different definition of personalized medicine, from Center for Connected Health http://chealthblog.connectedhealth.org/2013/07/09/is-the-future-of-healthcare-delivery-guidelines-or-personalized-medicine/
3. A Growing Digital Health Market Turns To Crowdfunding, July 8th http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/amidst-dabbling-investors-and-dearth-of-seed-capital-digital-health-startups-turn-to-crowdfunding/
4. Mobile enabled stethoscope http://mobihealthnews.com/23508/mobile-enabled-stethoscope-add-on-cardiosleeve-gets-fda-clearance
5. Summary article of Eric Topol's book, Creative Destruction of Medicine:
   http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/07/12/how-technology-is-transforming-health-care?goback=%2Egde_2308956_member_258269914
6. Cost of Heart Surgery in India vs US:
   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-28/heart-surgery-in-india-for-1-583-costs-106-385-in-u-s-.html
7. Wearables to move beyond activity, vital signs to chemical biosensors:
   http://mobihealthnews.com/24095/wearables-to-move-beyond-activity-vital-signs-to-chemical-biosensors/
8. Azumio acquires Skyhealth, reveals greater business strategy (article from July 20th):
   http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/20/azumio-acquires-skyhealth/
   
   In the next few weeks, the team (now at 13 people) plans to launch a fitness dashboard, which will take readings for each of their applications in an effort to give users a more complete report on their health. With SkyHealth’s additions, Azumio’s apps now span heart, stress, and sleep monitoring to fitness and glucose tracking. If Azumio opens that dashboard up to aggregate data from other health devices and apps as well, it could really be a game changer.

June 2013 Health Tech Innovation

June 2013  News worthy articles on Health Tech Innovation:

1. WellDoc → First to be approved for mobile prescription therapy, June 14th http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2013/06/14/trailblazer-welldoc-to-sell-first-mobile-prescription-therapy/?goback=%2Egde_1049717_member_249781097
2. From wearables to Fabric, June 21st http://mobihealthnews.com/23227/digital-health-sensing-clothes-are-next-in-wearables/
3. Personalized Diagnostics Market Overview http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/17/5503048/personalized-medicine-diagnostics.html
4. Future of wearable computing:  http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-06-17/a-look-at-the-future-of-wearable-computing
   
5. mHealth insights: http://mhealthinsight.com/2012/07/05/why-were-more-likely-to-drop-the-health-than-the-m-in-mhealth/
   
6. Predictions for the Future of Health Care Technology
   http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/23/7-predictions-for-the-future-of-health-care-technology/

April - May 2013: Health Tech Innovation

News worthy articles on health tech innovation: April - May 2013

1. Practice Fusion article

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/practice-fusion-continues-to-reach-beyond-digital-health-records-adds-free-expense-tracking-to-new-booking-engine/

2. Health Tap

http://allthingsd.com/20130508/healthtap-raises-a-more-than-healthy-24m-in-funding/?mod=atd_email_daily_list

3. The Smartphone Physical: You Can Now Get A Good Amateur Check-Up From Your Phone

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681907/the-smartphone-physical-you-can-now-get-a-good-amateur-check-up-from-your-phone

4. Scanadu:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680950/scanadus-medical-tricorder-will-measure-your-vital-signs-in-seconds

5.Rockhealth:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679133/the-future-of-digital-health-is-lurking-in-san-franciscos-chinatown

6. Race to build a start trek worthy medical tricorder:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679101/the-race-to-build-a-star-trek-worthy-medical-tricorder

Article on Scanadu and Senstore

The $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, officially announced this week, challenges entrants to create mobile platform that can accurately diagnose 15 diseases across 30 patients in three days.

The tricorder can be viewed broken into a few component pieces: a biological sensor input (i.e. exhaling your breath to allow the chemical components to be analyzed), vital signs, imaging components (used to identify a rash, for example), and the AI software that can make sense of all the inputs.

7. Comparing Nike Fuelband, Jawbone

When wireless headset company Jawbone announced plans Tuesday to buy wearable sensor maker BodyMedia for what a source said was more than $100 million, it may well have marked a turning point for wearable computing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57582475-76/google-nike-jawbone-and-the-fight-to-win-wearable-computing/?goback=%2Egde_2181454_member_237723537

Right now, much of the data collected from wrist monitors such as Jawbone's Up, as well as heart-rate monitors, sleep-pattern sensing devices, bicycling cyclometers and more exist in digital silos. It's not easy to look at the different collections of data at the same time to determine, for example, if a series of poor running performances might have been related to several nights of fitful sleep.

"At the end of the day, you want to see how one pattern links to another pattern," said Travis Bogard, Jawbone's vice president of product management and strategy

8. Jawbone’s aquisition of Body Media:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-jawbone-bodymedia-idUSBRE93T0M420130430

FDA ruling on mHealth apps

9. Biosense Urinalysis Diagnostic:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/fda-gets-pissy-with-urinalysis-app/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/29/the-fda-launches-first-inquiry-into-medical-iphone-app/

10. Digital health goes global

http://www.mhimss.org/news/digital-health-goes-global

11.  Why VCs should love hardware startups

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/02/why-vcs-should-love-hardware-startups/

12. Flatiron:  Google Ventures invests $8M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/flatiron-health-raises-8m-from-google-ventures-first-round-to-build-an-intelligent-data-platform-for-oncology/

13. How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain, April 25th

 http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/

14. Dollars and Scents from Time, March 18th, 2013:  article on scent and breath analyzer technology, highlights Adamant Technologies
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2137995,00.html