Healthcare is a complex industry to break into. However, these healthcare startups have access not only to capital, but also mentoring and tactical partnerships from influential companies like Aetna, United Health Group, Genentech, and Harvard Medical School.
As these startups embark on entering the market with their innovative concepts, due to their well-planned strategies, they will probably avoid the mishaps of some of their less well-heeled precursors. To their advantage, healthcare reform endeavors now cater to an age group used to receiving services online, and a new breed of doctors who are as eager as the general populace to alter the current healthcare model.
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Here are a few healthcare startups to look out for to better monitor and improve your mental and physical wellbeing:
1. OmadaHealth
Takes on the excessive crisis of chronic diseases, starting with diabetes. OmadaHealth is a social assisting, group experience network that treats a diagnosis of pre-diabetes. Since the present cost of evading one case of diabetes can be quite expensive, insurance companies are closely watching this startup.
2. CakeHealth
The average family’s healthcare expenditures can be quite expensive. CakeHealth alleges to have the best no-cost means of managing healthcare expenses. A provider’s name is entered and it reveals all expenditures and what they were for, while also tracing any claims that were denied.
3. Skimble
This is a wellness phone app currently accessible via iTunes and Android. It provides professional coaching and easy to follow multimedia workout instructions. It currently has more than one million downloads and counting. Staying fit by exercising is a great way to avoid seeing the dreaded nursing uniform hovering over you in the near future.
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4. Big Evidence
Big Evidence has devised a more efficient means of getting medical evidence to clinicians to help them make improved decisions about treatment. For doctors, locating particular answers is taxing and inefficient. In addition, they are frequently too occupied for evidence-based medicine. Big Evidence already has a good start with a grant from the National Stroke Association.
5. Genomera
A consumer health teamwork platform that boosts the amount of individuals who arrange and partake in health studies that result in crowd-sourcing clinical trials. Users can arrange their own trials, advised by professionals.
6. WeSprout a.k.a Kinsights
Supplies a large, easy user interface to link parents to one another to crowd-source children’s health data.
7. BrainBot
Utilizes technology features to supply pointers for novice meditators. Studies show that stress plays a big part in disease as it weakens the immune system and costs the economy billions each year. Therefore, stress management courses are being taught in over 200 hospitals. Presently, large segments of Americans use meditation as a means of stress reduction.
8. CellScope
Uses smartphone impressions for diagnosis of skin and ear infections through a dermatoscope or otoscope. CellScope supplies mobile intensification, elucidation, measurement, and computer visualization for assessment support. A trial program has currently been financed by the FDA to begin at Emory University.
9. Crohnology
After living with Crohn’s for many years, Sean Ahrens created Crohnology. This social app is for individuals who have possibly misunderstood autoimmune diseases with awful treatment choices, like fibromyalgia, colitis, and Chrohn’s disease. The interface is easy and persuades interactions and data sharing, linking patients with each other, and collecting information for further research and scientific trials.
10. Heartbeat
A venture clarification tool for a one individual that joins all business functions a yoga studio would require into one social platform.
Together, these innovative startups, partners, and financiers, will hopefully bring the new age of healthcare into a smooth and workable transition.
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I had never heard of these before reading this article. Some of them look pretty promising, like Brainbot and Crohnology. I have a close friend with Crohn’s and she might find Crohnology helpful or informative. I think anything that incorporates social media in a positive way has the potential to help thousands of people. Great list, I’ll definitely be keeping tabs on some of these startups.
Glad you find the article helpful, Richard! Thanks for stopping by.
Peter, thanks a bunch for the write up on Crohnology. I just wanted to submit a correction: we weren’t started by patientslikeme. I started Crohnology after living with Crohn’s for many years. Our full background is here: Crohnology.com/about.
Many thanks. And Richard, sorry about your friend and I hope Crohnology is helpful for her.
We have rectified that! Thanks for the information, Sean! Appreciate it! 🙂
Hello Peter Lee, My sister suffering Fibromyalgia from few years. She is great mom as well as Guide for her children. But after effecting Fibromyalgia she really feel Syndrome & can’t take care her children perfectly. Can you give me some advice for this.
Get her to a doctor!
Cakehealth caught my attention the most. I am looking at getting my knees checked (hopefully no surgery) but this could be a helpful service for me as I search through different providers.