Following a vigorous short-listing process, 16 healthtech start-ups have made it through to the hotly anticipated heats in this year’s Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2021.
The 16 start-ups will go head-to-head to be named this year’s Pitchfest winners, with heats broadcast daily as part of the extensive five day virtual festival celebrating the best of digital health and data.
The 16 finalists battling to win a chance to pilot their solution at an NHS site. For the second year running Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and their charity, CW+ will offer the winners a real-world test bed in whichever care setting their concept or start-up is based. Four heats of four finalists will run Monday 15 to Thursday 18 March with the Pitchfest final taking place on Friday 19 March.
The final 16 are:
- Concentric Health – a digital consent and shared decision making web application
- FeelTect – a smart leg ulcer dressing and platform
- Feebris – an AI tool which helps carers to identify health risks and deterioration within elderly communities
- Eupnoos – an app which uses AI for lung condition diagnosis and monitoring
- MediShout – an app which allows healthcare staff to report operational issues and uses AI to help predict potential issues and bottlenecks
- EnrichMyCare – a remote personal health monitoring platform for children with disabilities
- MRI My Pacemaker – a cloud-based referrals platform for MRI scans
- Digital Health (OXDH) – cloud-based platform help to enable remote consultations
- Joy – a social prescribing app which involves connecting patients to non-clinical services that improve health and wellbeing
- VUI Diagnostics – a device which provides simple retinal screening to help tackle global blindness
- Apian – helps connect the healthcare industry with the drone industry via an application programming interface (API)
- Peppy Health – an app which provides access to specialist support and resources specific to major life transitions such as menopause, fertility and parenthood
- Kids Speech Labs – online platform which uses data and clinical experience to benchmark children’s language and speech
- Open Medical – digital platform which allows doctors to triage, track, plan and review the care of patients
- Virti Healthcare – uses mixed reality (XR), artificial intelligence and gamification to help healthcare employees learn faster and remember training for longer.
- Tekihealth Solutions – digital hub which facilities remote consultations
Register to watch the Rewired Pitchfest heats and grand finale and to enjoy keynote presentations, video case studies and quick-fire lightning talks from a range of digital health innovators across 10 festival summits, including the Digital Leadership Summit, Digital Transformation Summit, and AI and Data Summit .
The full Rewired 2021 programme is now live featuring 300 fantastic and varied speakers, ranging from live keynotes and panel Q&As, interactive workshops, case study sessions, and unmissable video lighting talks from across the NHS.