Of the more than 100 companies that made their debut at Demo Day 2016, here are 14 healthcare-related startups of note, according to TechCrunch.
- Nurx streamlines the birth control process for patients, including electronic physician prescription approval and home delivery free-of-charge.
- Stitch is a messaging platform for healthcare practitioners that integrates with EHRs.
- Able Health aims to make it easier for medical groups to get paid with detailed patient tracking.
- CareSkore helps hospitals follow up with the patients at the most ideal times to detect recovery complications.
- Spinal Singularity is developing a minimally invasive catheter that controls urine flow through a magnetic valve and can be inserted or extracted at home.
- DoseDr is a mobile app that tells diabetes patients their exact blood sugar levels so they know precisely how much insulin to take.
- HistoWiz is working to streamline the cancer research process by creating a tissue sample database that scientists can access remotely.
- Loop Genomics is creating a platform for DNA sequencing that could extrapolate more information from samples than previous methods.
- X-Zell is a blood test that separates healthy cells from potentially cancerous cells to detect cancer early on.
- Physio Health is an app that incentivizes employees to engage in healthy activities.
- TrendMD keeps physician up to date on the latest research they need to know, including drug and clinical trials.
- iSono Health is developing a wearable device that performs 3D ultrasounds for at-home breast cancer screening.
- Innovein has developed an implantable prosthetic vein valve that will be tested in human trials next year.
- Unima uses blood samples to produce quick diagnoses for a variety of illnesses at only $1 per test.
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