Texas Medical Center (TMC) announced 13 startups that have joined its TMCx accelerator, which is in its second year.
The accelerator has also been tweaked a bit — it will now have two classes of companies participating each year. This (first) class is all about digital health, while the next cohort of startups will focus on medical device innovation.
“TMCx companies have access to the largest collection of top physicians, scientists and business expertise on one campus, which serves over nine million patients annually,” Erik M. Halvorsen, director of the TMC Innovation Institute, said in a statement. “The new program structure will make the best use of these important resources.”
TMCx does not charge membership fees or require equity from the participating companies.Companies accepted into the new TMCx program include:
- Aprenda Systems (Houston) – provides organizations with rich, accurate and timely directory data through access to Signature, the world’s first identity convergence platform.
- CareSet Systems (Houston) – CareSet Systems builds physician networks.
- DocResponse (Houston) – a software company focused on health care diagnostics for clinical decision support.
- ePreop (Seal Beach, Calif.) – ePreop’s SurgicalValet software helps coordinate perioperative care while optimizing patient engagement, billing support, readmission prevention and everything in between.
- GreenLight Medical (San Francisco) – a decision-engine to promote cost and quality conscious purchases within hospitals for new medical technology review and approval.
- Moving Analytics (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) – helps hospitals implement home-based cardiac rehab programs delivered through patients’ mobile devices.
- Qidza (San Francisco) – a mobile platform that translates developmental science into fun health-screening activities throughout human development, beginning with babies.
- Secure Healing (Houston) – helps hospitals comply with auditing the requirements of HIPAA and other regulations by automatically identifying inappropriate access of confidential information.
- Sense.ly (San Francisco) – a virtual nurse platform that helps clinicians better manage and communicate with their patients.
- The Right Place (Houston) – provides hospitals and post-acute providers with a more reliable way to match the right patient to the right place of care.
- TowerView Health (Philadelphia) – helps chronically-ill patients manage their medication.
- Valera Health (Williamsburg, N.Y.) – enabling the future of behavioral healthcare through smartphone-based support for behavioral wellness and care coordination.
- Xpress (Santa Fe, N.M.) – puts providers and patients in charge of health care, giving them real-time access to unbiased pharmaceutical resources and information.
As part of the program, TMCx provides founders with a comprehensive and practical curriculum with access to other entrepreneurs, investors, subject-matter experts, industry professionals and hospital leaders. Moreover, for its services – TMCx does not charge membership fees or require equity from the participating companies.
