The challenge aims to help connect healthcare organizations with innovative tech companies through a funding and matchmaking process. Companies partner with healthcare organizations to submit joint proposals in the categories of clinical environments, public health and community environments, consumer health or research and data.
The six winning projects will now test their apps in their host’s healthcare facilities. Winners and their hosts are partnered as follows.
- Vital Care Telehealth Services and Dominican Sisters Family Health Services (Ossining, N.Y.).
- physIQ and Henry Ford Health System (Detroit).
- ClinicalBox and Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital.
- Optima Integrated Health and University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
- CreateIT Healthcare Solutions and MHP Salud (Weslaco, Texas).
- Gecko Health Innovations and Boston Children’s Hospital.
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