Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19
More than 15 Dreamit Healthtech companies have products that are helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. These companies are actively deploying COVID-19 solutions in hospitals and healthcare systems to enable rapid testing, limit exposure to the virus, educate patients and clinicians on rapidly-evolving information, and provide communication tools that reduce exposure risk for front-line healthcare workers. Explore these solutions by using the buttons below.
Testing & Diagnostics
Biomeme - Rapid Environmental Testing for COVID-19
Biomeme delivers rapid environmental testing to identify and prioritize areas in need of immediate cleaning and sanitizing.
Biomeme’s mobile diagnostic lab analyzes air samples for COVID-19 and delivers results on area contamination in under an hour. Biomeme also offers swab-based COVID-19 testing at the point of care and should receive FDA Emergency Use Authorization shortly (last updated March 28, 2020).
Eko Health - Digital Stethoscope for Remote Cardiovascular Monitoring
Eko reduces the need for in-person appointments and close-contact on-site heart monitoring, limiting provider exposure for at-risk cardiac patients.
Eko’s digital stethoscope with an AI-powered remote cardiac monitoring platform is proven to be more sensitive and specific than other methods including traditional auscultation. Eko has deployed 40,000 devices across 4,000 hospitals.
Infermedica - Online Risk Assessment & Triage
Infermedica pre-diagnoses, triages, and connects patients to the appropriate point of care.
Infermedica’s platform uses text/voice to perform a risk assessment of suspected COVID-19 patients based on WHO and CDC guidelines to accurately identify patients who are at high risk. Patients who screen as low risk avoid seeking further care thereby reducing the burden on healthcare systems. The health system can customize follow-up plans for patients who screen as high risk. Infermedica is live in multiple locations in more than 25 languages, HIPAA compliant, and the COVID-19 module is available at no cost.
Intelligent Observation - Automated Hand Hygiene Tracking
Intelligent Observation’s hand hygiene monitoring system improves adherence by tracking individual compliance in real-time.
Intelligent Observation’s platform delivers real-time individual alerts at the point of care to providers when staff do not adhere to hand hygiene protocols. A dashboard enables clinical leaders to track both departments and individuals in real-time. Intelligent Observation’s system is easily deployable and requires minimal modification to existing infrastructure.
Reliant Immune Diagnostics - End-to-end Solution for COVID-19 Testing and Telehealth
Reliant Immune Diagnostic’s solution combines in-house COVID-19 test kits, remote symptom monitoring, risk stratification, and telehealth onto a single platform.
Reliant Immune Diagnostics has test kits for COVID-19 and a platform to remotely log patient temperature, blood pressure cuff readings, one-touch glucose readings, and general symptom-checking. Based on data collected, Reliant’s platform risk stratifies patients, keeps care team informed, and recommends appropriate next steps. Recommendations follow CDC guidelines and their platform can accommodate patient telehealth visits.
Clinical Workflows
Elemeno - Point of Care On-Demand Training
Elemeno trains front-line staff at the point of care to ensure adherence with CDC guidelines and best practice procedures for COVID-19.
Clinicians from a wide array of backgrounds with diverse skill levels and training are being called to the frontlines of patient care. Assuring adherence to CDC guidelines and best practice procedures is near impossible. Elemeno’s mobile-based point of care learning platform transforms best practices into one-minute on-demand videos, checklists, and decision guides. The COVID-19 module has gone live in multiple hospitals in less than 24 hours.
Health Tensor - Automated EHR Documentation and Problem List Generation
Health Tensor reduces administrative burden by automating COVID-19 patient documentation.
Health Tensor automatically generates accurate notes for doctors to document and review COVID-19 care. Front line staff spend less time capturing and doctors know at a glance what is going on with their patients without spending time digging through data and charts.
Hideez - Touchless Digital Staff Authorization
Hideez Zero Touch solution allows hospitals to prevent medical staff from passing bacteria via computer keyboards to stave off the spread of COVID-19 within healthcare settings.
Hideez is a HIPAA-compliant wireless security key that frees medical staff from touching keyboards when logging into workstations, or when entering notes and ordering tests through voice recognition. Hideez is discounting all software licenses to zero during the pandemic period and three months afterward.
Osmosis - Online Knowledge Base and Learning Platform
Osmosis is a knowledge resource keeping clinicians informed on practical COVID-19 topics like properly fitting N95 masks, disinfecting frequently touched surfaces, and COVID-19 imaging features.
Osmosis provides a library of COVID-19 video content catered specifically to the medical community. Viewed more than 150,000 times per day, over 1.5 million medical professionals trust Osmosis for clinician-minded content.
Redox - Rapid Telehealth Deployment & Healthcare Data Exchange
Redox powers the rapid deployment of telehealth and digital health solutions to accelerate the transition towards more remote care.
Redox normalizes all data exchanged between providers and vendors across a single cloud platform. Redox’s rapid-deploy model enables the quick rollout of digital health solutions without implementation friction. Redox and many vendors in their partner-network are offering digital health solutions to provider organizations free of charge for the next 90 days.
TrekIT - Care Collaboration Across Providers and Disparate Care Settings
TrekIT enables providers to communicate and coordinate care of COVID-19 patients across an array of settings and otherwise disparate systems.
TrekIT’s digital workspace enables clinicians across health systems, offsite, and impromptu care locations to coordinate task lists and serves as a single repository for patient information. TrekIT is HIPPA compliant, requires no IT resources to deploy, and the COVID-19 module is available free of charge.
Patient Engagement
Asparia - Interactive Customizable SMS Patient Communication
Asparia enables hospitals and providers to broadcast interactive, customizable SMS patient communications.
COVID-19 use cases include:
Determining if a patient has symptoms prior to an appointment and then alerting the provider who can determine the appropriate course of action.
Sending targeted broadcast SMS messages for urgent communications such as clinic closures, change of appointment location (e.g, a drive-through location), appointment cancellations, or procedure rescheduling.
Converting scheduled in-person appointments to telehealth visits based on patient self-reported information.
Asparia’s system can go live in 12 hours or less.
emocha - Remote Symptom Monitoring for Exposed Clinical Staff
emocha uses brief asynchronous video check-ins to remotely identify and manage symptoms, thereby reducing exposure risk.
emocha's platform captures a daily review of temperature and symptoms, with severe symptoms escalated back to Occupational Health departments and customizable follow up according to the provider’s established policy. emocha's daily reports summarize these interactions and maintain a roster of symptomatic, asymptomatic, enrolled, and non-adherent users. emocha’s platform is currently deployed at Johns Hopkins, among other healthcare systems.
Kaizen Health - Non-Emergency Patient Transport Logistics
Kaizen Health manages COVID-19 patient transportation to and from hospital and clinic visits.
Kaizen Health’s platform is a logistics hub for both provider and patient. Ensuring reliable transportation that matches the patient's medical needs reduces administrative and financial burden for the healthcare system.
Neuroflow - Remote Mental Health Support Platform
Neuroflow reduces in-person utilization of provider resources through remote mental health engagement, support, and risk assessment designed specifically for COVID-19.
Neuroflow targets the impact of COVID-19 on mental health by digitizing proven tools and protocols through a mobile based patient engagement platform. Neuroflow’s clinically validated behavioral health platform remotely delivers helpful content, tracks patient progress, and identifies those in need of higher-level care. The platform is widely deployed at Jefferson Health, the VA, and the US Air Force.
SurvivorPlan - Personalized Cancer Treatment Planning and Patient Education
SurvivorPlan enables oncology departments to keep cancer patients informed with cancer-specific COVID-19 information.
SurvivorPlan ensures cancer programs can quickly disseminate patient education and resources with the most up-to-date information from their own health system and other trusted organizations such as ASCO, the CDC, and state and county departments of health. SurvivorPlan is offering its services and platform at no cost to programs in need.
PadInMotion - Tablet-Based Communication for In-Patients
PadInMotion reduces on-site clinician exposure and improves patient experience through tablet-based interaction in isolation rooms.
PadInMotion utilizes tablets to enable patients to communicate with staff, clinicians, and family from a distance. The COVID-19 specific configuration incorporates telemedicine, broadcast messaging, translation services, patient education, along with a range of entertainment and mental wellness options. PadInMotion is HIPAA compliant, can be live onsite in under 24 hours, and is widely deployed at health systems including Northwell Health and Mount Sinai Hospital.
Yosi Health - Remote Patient Appointment Registration
Yosi Health reduces on-site exposure by having patients pre-register for their appointments using their own devices instead of centralized kiosks or paper.
Pre-arrival or pre-appointment processes are completed by the patient prior to the visit. This reduces patient time in the waiting area, thereby decreasing potential exposure. Patients input their data via a mobile device or web portal. Necessary approvals and potential billing issues can be identified and addressed in advance of the appointment.
By Elliot Levy, Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures
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