New York City-based accelerator Blueprint Health unveiled its Summer 2015 Accelerator class consisting of 8 digital health startups. This is the accelerator’s eight class of startup, bringing the total number of startups accepted to the program to 68 with more than 140 entrepreneurs in Blueprint’s alumni community.
To date, 87% of Blueprint’s companies are still in operation and 85% of those companies are generating revenue.The new companies joining the program are:
- Bind Health – this startup is looking to prevent prospective parents from falling into common genomic testing pitfalls throughout the pregnancy. It does that by helping parents make informed decisions about genomic testing and provides genetic counseling services to families that want personalized advice. Bind Health charges clients $100 per session.
- Crediyo – helps medical practices decrease patient payment write-offs and improve cash flow. The company assists its clients determine a patient’s financial responsibility and can provide patients with a loan at the point of care to pay for expensive medical procedures.
- Ekovia – helps hospitals recruit top talent, focusing on nursing staff initially. They monitor a number of online data sources to identify top job candidates and assess their interest in new opportunities. Hospitals pay $1,000 per month per seat license to use their talent identification platform for nurses. Ekovia is currently tracking more than 17,000 hospital employees in Manhattan alone
- Get Compliant – full service platform for HIPAA compliance for physician practices. The company helps its clients meet key HIPAA regulations by making it easy to collect and maintain patient disclosure preferences, and detecting and preventing the spread of patient information by monitoring information being copied and pasted in staff web browsers. When an unsecured disclosure is detected, Get Compliant suggests a compliant way to send the information based on the patient’s own preferences.
- MedPilot – the company contracts with healthcare providers to help patients resolve their outstanding bills before being sent to debt collections. MedPilot’s platform and network of patient navigators facilitates payments to providers by offering billing discounts, customizable payment plans, and advocacy services to patients. They reduce revenue cycle friction, increase self-pay reimbursement, boost patient satisfaction, and free up time for billing staff to collect insurance reimbursements.
- Oculus Health – helps medical practices deliver care for chronic conditions outside of the clinic, facilitating contact between patients and providers between office visits. Using the Oculus Health platform physicians are able to bill for the new chronic care management code, CPT 99490. The platform also provides physicians with an off-site care team of medical assistants and nurses who call patients and provide chronic care management services as directed by the patient’s care plan. They have already enrolled over 200 patients from their first two customers.
- Psocratic – helps companies and academic institutions improve the productivity of their staff and students. The company identifies employees or students that are struggling with stressors in their work or personal life and provides time management, productivity, and resilience training exercises to help them overcome their stressors, as well as provide a overall assessment of the organization’s mental well-being and resilience.
- trackER – smartphone app that prevent hospital readmissions. Downloaded at discharge, the application notifies client hospitals when a prior patient is inside its own or another hospital emergency room within 90 days of discharge. The TrackER approach doesn’t require integration with EMRs and is simple to implement. The company is currently in discussions to pilot the technology with MGH.
To date, 87% of Blueprint’s companies are still in operation and 85% of those companies are generating revenue. Blueprint also supports the largest structured mentor network in the digital health space, with almost 200 senior level health executives providing mentorship and support to companies in the portfolio.
Blueprint is a member of TechStars’ Global Accelerator Network.