Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest start-up short-list announced

The 16 start-ups that have made the short-list of the Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest have been revealed.

The last 16 includes a clutch of health AI start-ups, diagnostic testing companies, medical imaging, condition focused apps, sentiment analysis tools, remote patient assessment, blockchain and mental health services.

They range from companies at pre-funding and very early stage, through to more mature digital health firms with established products now aiming to accelerate growth through securing further investment.

The Rewired Pitchfest gives digital health start-ups the opportunity to compete in quick-fire pitches in front of a panel of judges and live audience, to be named Rewired Pitchfest winner.

Jon Hoeksma, editor of Digital Health, said: “We’ve had a fantastic range of start-ups enter the first Rewired Pitchfest and the last 16 showcase the amazing array of talent and innovation in the sector. The Pitchfest promsies to be one of the highlights of Rewired.

“The Pitchfest and two-day Rewired Hack Day, which takes over the Innovation Theatre in the afternoon, will mean visitors to Rewired will be able to see current cutting-edge innovation and get a real sense of what is now possible in digital health.”

Applications began at the start of January and over 70 start-ups applied to take part in the Rewired Pitchfest, sponsored by Silver Buck, with 47 going through to online voting by the judging panel, who voted for the short-list.

All 16 will take part in quick-fire pitches in the Innovation Theatre at Digital Health Rewired, starting at 9.15am on 26 March.

The 2019 short-listed start-ups are:

• Lantum – a member of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, is a total workforce platform for healthcare staffing with the aim to save the NHS £1bn annually on agency spend.
• Mendelian – focused on shortening the diagnostic odyssey of rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases using machine learning. It is used by 3000+ clinicians from 150+ countries. Rare disease patients have cost the NHS in excess of £3.4 billion.
• Oxipit – focused on AI-medical imaging, Oxipit has developed a tool that automates reporting on chest X-rays, the most frequent medical imaging modality.
• TestCard – TestCard has innovated an at-home urine test kit, which arrives with a consumer as a postcard with fold-out urinalysis dipsticks. An accompanying mobile app turns a phone’s camera into a clinical grade scanner delivering an immediate and precise result.
• MeeTwo – MeeTwo says its mission is to provide mental help at a global scale, by empowering people to help themselves by helping each other. The MeeTwo app is a best practice example of a safe, scalable way to deliver fast, effective mental help.
• Vitrue Health – Vitrue’s computer vision and inertial sensor-based technology is said to improve the accuracy and efficiency of musculoskeletal assessment. The technology accurately measures and reports a patients motor function while fitting into standard clinical practice.
• Truu – Truu says it is modernising the way medical services verify staff identities and qualifications. Employees prove who they are instantly, securely and digitally. They own, control and manage their digital credentials, just like physical documents.
• On The Mend – On The Mend is a London-based pre-seed health tech start-up, designing innovate tools that get people better quicker through physical therapy by providing greater support and incentives to anyone with a diagnosed musculoskeletal disorder.
• SurgEase – SurgEase says it is revolutionising the early diagnosis of rectal cancer. Hardware and software solutions will permit the least skilled healthcare workers to make diagnoses at point of care; increasing cancer screening and reducing delays in diagnosis.
• Reach Active – Reach says it is the only B2C full physiotherapy app tackling MSK pain. The start-up has built the first digital-only assessment and exercise plan, and us growing at over 40% month-on-month.
• MediShout – The MediShout app allows ward staff to instantly report and resolve ward problems that usually delay them; improving hospital efficiency and allowing clinicians to focus on patient-care. Nine hospitals so far use the app .
• Triscribe Ltd – Triscribe is building AI and machine learning based on data from hospital electronic prescribing systems. We help front line clinicians optimise medicines usage, improve patient safety and reduce the burden of routine reporting.
• Statica Research – PEP automatically gathers, filters, and consistently scores millions of items of unsolicited public feedback in near real-time. PEP is claimed as a proven predictor of CQC inspection findings and drives quality improvement activities within Trusts.
• ByzGen – ByzGen say that have partnered with leading universities to develop a data security and assurance platform which utilises a distributed ledger technology backbone, coupled with our own unique encryption capability.
• Cievert – Cievert uses AI to improve clinical follow-up by automatically assessing patients remotely. We’ve managed over 100,000 NHS patients to date using our referral management tool, with a follow-up tool – called Penguin – in development.
• Dr Julian – Dr Julian increases access to mental healthcare. We connect patients securely within days, seven days a week, through our platform to vetted therapists offering them choice of time and type of appointment ie video/audio/text they want.

Taking place on the morning of 26 March at the Digital Health Rewired Conference and Exhibition, the Pitchfest will put start-ups in front of a panel of highly experienced judges and audience of current NHS IT leaders.

The judges are:

Mark Evans, Balderton Capital (VC)

Manoj Badale, co-founder, Blenheim Chalcot (VC)

Will Gibbs, Octopus Ventures (VC)

Dr Jonathan Bloor, clinical director System C and co-founder of Careflow

Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, CEO and founder of Patients Know Best

Julie Bretland, CEO, OurMobileHealth

Charles Lowe, CEO, Digital Health and Care Alliance

Make sure you have registered your place for Rewired today.