The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA), along with the Partnership Fund for New York City (Partnership Fund) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), had a demo day on January 21st when attendees had a chance to meet six of its startups. Since entering the program, these companies secured over $3 million of new funding, and are currently finalizing or negotiating 14 pilot agreements.
In one of the pilot agreements, Mount Sinai will offer OffTheScale’s app-driven disease intervention program to its employees.
Another pilot calls for iVediX to develop a data visualization tool that will help clients of Onondaga Case Management’s health home program to participate fully in the creation of care plans by having access to data on their own outcomes across important domains of functioning.
The NYDHA provides $100,000 in up-front funding per company.The six companies that had a chance to demo their solutions include:
- Dorsata – a platform for the creation, distribution, and implementation of clinical carepaths. It enables clinicians and nurses to rapidly create, build consensus, and disseminate care pathways.
- iVEDiX – provides highly configurable visual analytics platform called miVEDiX that gives users the ability to interact with their data in a variety of ways.
- OffTheScale – an affordable healthcare platform which has been shown to slow, stop, and reverse the progression of chronic diseases through a 12-week customized group intervention program called OTS-4-U, and then continues life-long maintenance and sustainability with its OTS-4-LIFE program.
- Parable Health – provides tele-monitoring and analytics for wound care. The company helps provide more effective measuring, monitoring, and managing of wound patients to improve outcomes and reduce cost.
- TelaDietitian – the premier telehealth solution for nutrition counseling, which makes medical nutrition therapy easy to deliver. Its services are accessible via a HIPAA compliant video, chat and phone portal.
- Wellth – works with healthcare payors to produce cost-saving behavior changes in their members through science-based incentive plans. By nudging patients towards evidence-based care options and by motivating and tracking healthy habits, they can measurably improve population quality metrics.
Now in its third year, the NYDHA provides participants with direct access to major enterprise customers including large hospital systems and insurance companies, and direct feedback from senior-level executives in the New York State. The program also provides $100,000 in up-front funding per company from a syndicate of leading venture capital and strategic investors.