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VIDA Diagnostics gives pulmonary diseases the big data treatment
When it comes to important medical decisions, it’s always a good idea to get a second opinion. As technology advances, odds are that opinion might not come from another doctor, but rather from analytics and software. The Coralville, Iowa, company VIDA Diagnostics is using big data analytics to map the human lung and analyze the…
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Phynd proves the model for “rural sourcing” startups [Updated]
As the landscape of U.S. health care changes, startups are emerging around patient monitoring, nursing practices and managing information about licensed providers. “The geography of providers is shifting away from hospital location-centric, said Tom White, CEO and Founder of Dallas and Kearney, Nebraska, startup Phynd. “It’s moving to a network that goes out and recruits a bunch of…
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Play-It Health wants to improve patient engagement (and outcomes)
Play-It Health is driven by a simple idea: The best way to transform healthcare is to do what we already know to do. Kim Gandy previously worked as a pediatric heart transplant surgeon. “I was seeing kids go through the Hail Mary of transplants, having really good transplants, but if they quit taking medications that would…
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Ocuvera’s predictive algorithm knows when patients will get out of bed
A patient falling in a nursing home is considered a “never” event. It should never happen. But what if it does? “It’s a big problem,” said Paul Bauer, Product Manager for Lincoln startup Ocuvera. “Medicare or Medicaid may not pay for care resulting from falls. Quality metrics may be impacted, bad things that can be…
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ClinicNote wants to scratch out therapy paperwork
Speech-language pathologists dedicate their careers to improving their patients’ communication skills, but about 20 percent of their time is actually spent communicating with someone else: insurance companies. When Tyler Fox, Justin Coaldrake and Morgan Hampel were graduating from Iowa State University, they were intrigued by an SLP friend complaining about the time she spent dealing with…
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Baby Vida alerts your phone when your baby stops breathing
When Mollie and Jeff Evans delivered their first son he wasn’t breathing. “When you first start parenthood you find this love that you’ve never known before, and when they’re taken away it’s quite the scary time,” said Jeff Evans, CEO of Omaha-based Baby Vida. Their son recovered. Two years later the family had welcomed two twin girls and…
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LifeLoop expands to new states, new communities
Since December the LifeLoop team has hired 3 new employees, expanded into 2 more states and doubled the communities they serve. Recent growth at LifeLoop marks their transition from initial product development to customer acquisition. “We’re definitely in the scale phase of focusing on sales,” said Amy Johnson, founder. The digital communication platform handles over 1,200 users…
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LeverageRx helps doctors connect with financial experts
A startup in the current NMotion Accelerator class is creating an online marketplace to help physicians and dentists with their finances. “By the time a doctor gets through undergrad, med school, residency, and into practice, it may be 10 years longer than someone going to work after an undergrad degree,” said Colin Nabity, founder of LeverageRX.…
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MotoMetrix brings new technology to concussion detection
Preston Badeer remembers when he was a child trading football cards of his favorite players with his brother. And it makes him angry. “There were football players that I watched with my brothers growing up that are dead already because they went insane from the effects of concussions,” said Badeer, Interim CEO, MotoMetrix. “They got…
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CareDrop connects family caregivers with the resources they need
In the United States, 43.5 million family caregivers are caring for someone 50+ years of age, and 14.9 million are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. When Kathy Good’s husband Dave was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she used her background as a social worker to put together resources and a supportive committee…