13 digital health companies make up second class of Texas Medical Center's innovation accelerator

Texas Medical Center (TMC) is welcoming 13 companies specializing in digital health into the second installment of the TMCx accelerator.

TMCx aims to pair the resources of the world’s largest medical center with the innovative entrepreneurs.

In this second year of the TMCx program, each class will focus on a specialized subset of healthcare innovation, with two classes participating each year. Through June 2016, the 13 companies chosen will focus on digital health. In July, the next cohort will begin with a focus on medical device innovation.

The companies accepted into the second TMCx class are:

  • Aprenda Systems (Houston) – Aprenda Systems provides organizations with directory data through access to Signature, an identity convergence platform.
  • CareSet Systems (Houston) – CareSet Systems builds physician networks.
  • DocResponse (Houston) – DocResponse is a software company focused on healthcare diagnostics for clinical decision support.
  • ePreop (Seal Beach, Calif.) – ePreop’s SurgicalValet software helps coordinate perioperative care while optimizing patient engagement, billing support, readmission prevention and more.
  • GreenLight Medical (San Francisco) – GreenLight Medical is a decision-engine to promote cost and quality conscious purchases within hospitals for new medical technology review and approval.
  • Moving Analytics (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) – Moving Analytics helps hospitals implement home-based cardiac rehab programs delivered through patients’ mobile devices.
  • Qidza (San Francisco) – Qidza is a mobile platform that translates developmental science into fun health-screening activities throughout human development, beginning with babies.
  • Secure Healing (Houston) – Secure Healing helps hospitals comply with auditing the requirements of HIPAA and other regulations by automatically identifying inappropriate access of confidential information.
  • Sense.ly (San Francisco) – Sense.ly is a virtual nurse platform that helps clinicians better manage and communicate with their patients.
  • The Right Place (Houston) – The Right Place provides hospitals and post-acute providers a more efficient and reliable way to match the right patient to the right place of care.
  • TowerView Health (Philadelphia) – TowerView Health helps chronically-ill patients manage their medication.
  • Valera Health (Williamsburg, N.Y.) – Valera Health is enabling the future of behavioral health care through smartphone-based support for behavioral wellness and care coordination.
  • Xpress (Santa Fe, N.M.) – Xpress puts providers and patients in charge of health care, giving them real-time access to unbiased pharmaceutical resources and information.
Beth Walsh,

Editor

Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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