Mayo, AVIA announce innovation challenge finalists
Mayo Clinic and AVIA, a Chicago-based provider-led accelerator, have announced the six finalists who will be competing in Mayo's inaugural THINK BIG Challenge.
The challenge focused on two key categories: Got Health, promoting health maintenance and prevention, and I Am Not My Disease, helping people with chronic illnesses live productive lives.
Selected finalists will compete on Oct. 1 during Transform 2015 for one of two $50,000 awards.
The six finalists are:
Got Health
1. Care at Hand: Provides evidence-based surveys and analytics platform to predict and prevent hospitalizations
2. Datu Health: Offers a digital platform to engage consumers in their daily health with the ultimate goal of changing unhealthy behaviors
3. Seiva Technologies: Develops clothing with embedded sensors and electronics, which collect data to analyze
I Am Not My Disease
1. Livongo: Combines technology, real-time information and human support to assist people living with chronic conditions
2. physIQ: Remote monitoring solution to use continuous vital sign data as an early warning system for heart failure and respiratory exacerbation
3. Wellpepper: A platform for digital treatment plans that allows health systems to embed their own care pathways and collect patient-reported information
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