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Equity Health

Equity Health

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Greensboro, NC

Participants:

Dr. Michelle Schmerge
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CEO, Co-Founder
Dr. Heather Smith
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Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder

The Solution

Equity Health (EH) is developing a platform to enable home based primary care practices of the future. This technology will assist with logistics and scheduling, value-based care enablement, and resource utilization to ensure scalable efficiency when providing care to patients. The platform allows patients and their families to interact with providers and specify care needs. Additionally, it offers a clinical workforce to participate in on demand shift work, fostering work life balance. The Equity Health Logistics System (EHLS) also puts patients first and allows communities to care for populations, standardizing patient and clinician experience and promoting access to care.

Health In Her HUE

Health In Her HUE

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Bronx, NY

Participants:

Ashlee Wisdom
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CEO, Co-Founder
Eddwina Bright
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Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder

The Solution

Our members have access to a provider network where they can easily search for and connect with culturally sensitive healthcare providers, they have access to a content library with evidence-based written and video health content that is also culturally attuned (think masterclass quality content, but with physicians and practitioners of color), and centers their lived experiences. We offer our members a dynamic digital community for both peer and clinical support.

Lessonbee

Lessonbee

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Stamford, CT

Participants:

Reva McPollom
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Founder, CEO
Katie McPollom
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Head of Content & Customer Success

The Solution

Lessonbee offers a groundwater solution to addressing social determinants of health by integrating health education, community context, and health care in one comprehensive digital learning platform. The low-cost, multilingual solution supports online and offline health education and social emotional learning (SEL) activities and integrates with the most widely-used school-based technologies, making equitable access to comprehensive and culturally responsive health education and SEL possible for every student.

MedHaul

MedHaul

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Memphis, TN

Participants:

Erica Plybeah
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Founder, CEO
Nathalie Occean, MHA, CPHQ
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Chief Operating Officer
Neil Sambol
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Chief Technology Officer

The Solution

MedHaul helps health organizations understand and solve transportation barriers for historically marginalized patients including patients who are low-income, elderly, disabled and/or reside in rural communities. We're an early-stage, venture-backed digital health company that enables safe, reliable, and efficient transportation for healthcare providers and clinical trial sponsors to ensure treatment adherence and visit completion.

Navigate Maternity

Navigate Maternity

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Fort Wayne, IN

Participants:

Ariana McGee
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Founder, CEO
Dr. Elicia Harris, MD, MBA
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Chief Medical Officer
Theadora James, MHA
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Chief Operating Officer
Jade McDonald
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Chief Product Officer

The Solution

Navigate Maternity (NM) is developing a remote monitoring maternal care management platform to capture, analyze, and communicate data in real-time for enhanced clinical decision making. Key biometric data is captured from the first prenatal appointment through twelve months postpartum via the patient’s mobile app and two Bluetooth connected devices: a blood pressure (BP) monitor and digital scale. The mobile app will deliver validated questionnaires on social determinants of health (SDoH) and peripartum depression. The app allows real-time messaging and two-way alerts between the patient and care team. 

Revealix

Revealix

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Austin, TX

Participants:

Adrianna Cantu
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Founder, CEO
Doug Wilson
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Chief Technology Officer
Bogi Niczuly
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Head of Engineering

The Solution

Revealix is a digital health company on a mission to simplify foot health and make limb-saving care more accessible through proactive, personalized and tech-enabled solutions. Introducing Foot Health as a Service - a mobile application that helps clinical teams streamline and scale their amputation prevention practices through real-time monitoring of skin temperature changes, custom risk scores and education. Product. Mobile App, Cloud, AI/ML. A proprietary thermal imaging, clinical decision and risk stratification software platform. Patent granted.

Veriteos, Inc.

Veriteos, Inc.

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New York, NY | Boston, MA

Participants:

Carlos Rodarte
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CEO, Co-Founder
Kyloon Chuah
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Chief Product and Technology Officer, Co-Founder

The Solution

Veriteos is pioneering first-mile mental-behavioral health navigation by aligning local community resources, community clinic availability, and novel opportunities for culturally competent care. Our solution is primarily geared toward community clinics, FQHCs, small practices, and standalone behavioral health centers. Our Community Care Navigation Platform enables a “ground up” approach that honors the importance of place, culture, and trusted community leaders, which is in direct contrast to traditional “top-down” models that leave high-need individuals without timely access to care locally. 

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