18 Interesting

Health Technology

Startups @garymonk

18 Feb 2015

Introduction

• 18 health tech startups

– A variety of applications interesting for differing reasons

• Slides contain overview and insights

• Click on image to visit startup website

cellscope

Parents can check a childs ear,

via iPhone otoscope, when an

infection is suspected and

upload video for clinician analysis

• Interesting to see if this will

catch on

• Limited US availability currently

• Price is fairly low at $79 with

one free doctor consultation –

then you start paying for

clinician interpretation

DermLink

One of the range of tele-

dermatology services available.

Dermatology, due to its visual

and surface nature has high

potential for remote management

• How long before DrOnDemand

offers a telederm service and

disrupts these specialist

telederm companies?

• This sector of medicine must

be ripe for consolidation. There

are many fragmented offerings in this space

ZIPNOSIS

24/7 online diagnostic tool for

common (and minor) medical

conditions

• Differs from traditional

telemedicine as often a simple

symptom questionnaire is all

that is required to get a

prescription for your fungal

infection

• Promise a response within the

hour and an instant prescription

Ginger.io

Uses a range of data from your

smart phone, such as

movement and frequency of

communication to assess

physical or mental issues. It

can alert you and family

members / care givers to help

address these issues

FLATIRON

Only 4% of cancer patients are

in a clinical trial. Data for the

rest is largely lost. Flatiron

aims to bridge the gap by

transmitting patients data to

one place in the cloud and

offering real time analytics

AgileMD

AgileMD is a web and mobile

app that gives clinicians fast

access to guidelines, protocols, and reference information.

• The act of simply just sharing

information may well be useful

but appears limited when you

consider the potential use of

artificial intelligence in clinical

support and decision making

PROPELLER HEALTH

Sensor that attaches to inhaler

and provides contextual (time

and location) information

around attacks and

exacerbations

• Many pharma-co’s working on

similar inhalers

• Integrating with devices will

lead to greater adoption and

use

Mira rehab

Mira uses games to keep the

patient engaged and motivated

through physical therapy.

Patients can play games and

perform rehabilitating

movements at the same time

• Interesting approach where the

treatment actually becomes a

game

• Could be combined with a

community to introduce a

competitive element (A

Fitocracy model)

TickiT

Patients enter feedback about

the experience and their

medical condition in the waiting

room via user friendly iPad app

• Clinician can use data to

improve care

• Approach claims to improve

efficiencies

healthgrades

One of several tools (mainly US

based) to locate and review /

rate clinicians

• Comprehensive database with

a large amount of reviews

• ‘A trip advisor for doctors’

zamzee

Interesting approach to

incentivize children to be more

active

• Uses game design to motivate

• Fairly simple hardware, clips on

to clothes and uploads to

computer via USB (non

wireless)

lumosity

Popular brain training software

that may need no introduction

• Games cover various aspects

of cognition and support

improvement

• A limited range of available

games before you pay a subscription premium

TrialReach

Essentially a clinical trials

database, easy to navigate and

search across a range of

conditions

• Global database

of trial info

• Opportunity for Pharma to

partner and make clinical trial

recruitment more patient friendly

ekso BIONICS

Robotic exoskeletons that help

victims of stroke and spinal

cord injury walk again

• Imagine a future where the

technology becomes so

sophisticated they are worn by

the well to make them superhuman

PATIENTS KNOW BEST

The patient is put at the center

of their care and are the

gatekeeper to their information

and electronic records

• The principle: it is the patient

who turns up to all the

appointments across a range of

clinicians and they know best

about their care

• Opportunities for Pharmapartnership

OMsignal

Wearable clothing that tracks a

range of health and fitness

parameters

• Main claims around optimizing

athletic performance but has

potentially broader health applications

SCANADU

Health ‘tricorder’ measures vital

signs by placing against the

forehead

• Interesting device – it seems

likely the future will be

measuring these vitals

automatically / with minimal patient effort

AliveCor

Patient activated ECG machine

integrated with a smartphone as

part of the casing

• Patient must activate so not

useful to record events post-

hoc

• Main focus is Atrial Fibrillation

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