Digital Health Accelerator names newest winners
Health-tracking innovations to wear or to work on a smartphone loomed large among the companies that earned a boost in the just-announced second class of the University City Science Center's Digital Health Accelerator.
Health-tracking innovations to wear or to work on a smartphone loomed large among the companies that earned a boost in the just-announced second class of the University City Science Center's Digital Health Accelerator.
Another growing and costly health concern - prolonging life and wellness for our four-legged friends - also earned recognition and support in the new class of six startups, selected by the UC Science Center from a pool of 69 applicants.
Graphwear Technologies is developing the first graphene patch, which tastes the wearer's sweat to measure dehydration, glucose, and lactic acid.
Another wearable, from InvisAlert Solutions, monitors patients in institutional settings, helping care providers to perform due diligence and stay in compliance with regulations.
Made possible with the high-resolution camera optics in today's smartphones, Tissue Analytics aims to use phones for evaluating and measuring the status of chronic wounds, burns, and other skin conditions.
Mobile phones also are central to Grand Round Table, a health-management tool that will email busy primary care providers a daily summary of their scheduled patient follow-ups, so high-risk patients don't fall between the cracks, are treated efficiently, and stay out of the hospital.
Oncora Medical has a tool for planning personalized cancer radiotherapy that could reduce the incidence of radiation side effects and improve treatment efficiency.
Guardians of ill pets will be able to enroll their buddies in free trials of cutting-edge therapies thanks to another winner, One Health Co. This startup aims not only to improve pets' wellness but also to use research findings to develop new therapies for human medicine.
The Digital Health Accelerator program supports early-stage digital health companies with funding "up to $50,000," plus office space, professional mentorship, and introductions to key health-care stakeholders in the Philadelphia region.
These second-round accelerator winners all have connections to the University of Pennsylvania or Drexel University, and four are graduates of the DreamIT incubator based at the University City Science Center's ic@3401 complex. Half the class fulfilled the project's mission statement to embrace women and minority entrepreneurs.
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