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06-24-2015, 10:18 PM
MedTech In**vator 2015 Semi-Finalists An**unced
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Medtech-In**vator.pngThe 20 semi-finalists for MedTech In**vator 2015 (http://medtechin**vator.com/vote/wsgr2015/live) have been an**unced. *300 early medtech startups applied for the coveted position.* Anyone can cast their vote for which companies you*feel should receive a coveted slot to present live on stage at the WSGR medical device conference in San Francisco this Friday (6/26).* Without further ado here are the semi-finalists and a brief desciption of their tech**logy:
Admetsys:* A combined insulin pump/glucometer Admetsys’s tech**logy looks to streamline care of diabetic patients in the hospital setting.* When diabetic patient’s are in the hospital their insulin is usually checked four*times a day, after meals and before bed.* This value is then used to adjust the subcutaneous insulin dose they receive.* The process is labor intensive and somewhat inexact.* Admetsys’s system connects to a patient’s IV and continuously detects blood glucose levels while delivering appropriate levels of insulin.
AMP3D:* Short for Adult Medical Predictive Devices, Diag**stics and Displays, AMP3D has developed a proprietary algorithm that can plug into existing electronic health record and bedside monitoring systems to predict adverse events.* These events include emergent intubation, hemorrhage and severe sepsis.* The algorithm uses big data analytics to predict these catastrophic events. If these events can be avoided it can save hospitals significant cost and improve patient outcomes.
Aperture Medical: A common method of dialysis access is the creation of an AV fistula.* Unfortunately, these access sites slowly narrow within a year requiring frequent procedures to restore access.* Aperture Medical has designed a one time use device that eliminates the cells involved in the blockage of dialysis access sites
Bloom Tech**logies:* Bloom tech**logies provides a proprietary prenatal sensor for home use that collects unspecified data.* This data is then analyzed to reassure or alert expectant mothers.* Eventually they anticipate that their massive dataset from their users can be combined and analyzed to better develop methods of predicting outcomes.
Briteseed:* Briteseed is back with their SafeSnips tech**logy.* They were featured in our report (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/medtech-in**vator-semifinalists-compete-today.html) on the 2014 MedTech in**vator semifinalists.* Their tech**logy is able to detect and alert laparoscopic surgeons before blood vessels are accidentally transected without requiring the use of special contrast or imaging.
Cognition Medical:** A stroke usually takes place when a major blood vessel to the brain has clotted off.* Removal of this clot is becoming an increasingly common procedure.* Unfortunately, the sudden return of blood-flow can cause a condition k**wn as re-perfusion injury.* Cognition Medical’s device regulates the return of oxygen to the brain, theoretically minimizing re-perfusion injury and improving outcomes for stroke patients.
CytoChip:* Blood tests such as the Complete Blood Count (CBC) can be cumbersome to perform in remote clinical settings.* CytoChip looks to streamline the process and lower costs by providing a low cost lab-on-a-chip device that can perform routine blood tests with a single drop of blood without requiring transport to a central lab.
Disease Diag**stic Group:* DDG has developed a low cost and highly accurate device to detect malaria.* Their device detects magnetic na**particles created by the parasite in a single drop of blood with magneto-optical tech**logy.* This is reportedly 1/10th the cost of ELISA and 100x more sensitive than Rapid Diag**stic Tests.* They are also looking to expand the tech**logy to other infectious diseases.
Emmetrope: Cataract surgery involves the replacement of the natural lens with an artificial version.* While highly successful, the artificial lens is somewhat limited in its ability to accommodate for near vision.* Emmetrope has designed a new type of lens that outperforms currently existing lens tech**logy in terms of anterior movement with accomodation.
Fosmomed:* We previously reported (http://www.medgadget.com/2013/08/fosmo-meds-dry-iv-bags-for-disaster-relief.html) on Fosmomed’s tech**logy in 2013.* Their device is an empty IV bag that can be shipped to remote areas for extremely low cost.* The bag can be filled with any water source and is sterile and ready for patient use within hours with ** requirement for external power.
InBrace: InBrace utilizes shape memory alloy behind the teeth to offer a **vel form of orthodontic treatment.* The device is reportedly more efficient than the popular invisalign and more cosmetically appealing than conventional orthodontic braces.
Lightpoint Medical: Inadequate surgical resection of cancer is common and a significant cause of recurrence.* Lightpoint Medical has developed a device that takes advantage of a phe**me**n k**wn as Cerenkov Luminescence.* Their product, LightPath, can detect the optical signal released from PET imaging agents to detect residual cancer cells intra-operatively and in real-time to hopefully decrease the incidence of positive margins.
MedAware:* Prescription errors are still a major issue despite the increasingly ubiquitous use of electronic medical record systems.* MedAware looks to address this problem utilizing big data techo**logy and proprietary algorithms.* They claim that their system is able to flag inappropriate prescriptions with high specificity and low “alert fatigue.”
MiNDERA:* A skin biopsy can be an uncomfortable procedure.* MiNDERA looks to circumvent this with their proprietary microneedle based solution.* Their tech**logy utilizes an array of microneedles to extract mRNA and other biomarkers from the skin which can then be analyzed for various pathology.* While **t equivalent to a skin biopsy, currently these types of biomarker assays could replace the need for the procedure in the future.
MobileODT: Cervical cancer is a treatable disease, however successful treatment requires timely detection.* MobileODT’s tech**logy uses smartphones to create a mobile colposcope.* This can be used to detect cervical cancer in low-resource settings and may one day even be able to replace pap smear and HPV testing.
PixelEXX Systems:* PixelEXX has created an impressively small camera for medical endoscopy.* The camera is a size of a ***** of sand (0.5 mm), with 80,000 pixels.* The camera may be able to used to access previously inaccessible areas endoscopically.
Spinal Singularity:* Paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury often have to self-catheterize multiple times a day to empty their bladder of urine.* This carries an infectious risk, is costly and also inconvenient.* Spinal Singularity looks to disrupt this standard with a smart catheter system that can detect when the bladder is full, alert the user and drain the bladder of urine in a controlled manner without requiring self-catheterization.
uBiome: We briefly reported (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/exponential-medicine-day-2-big-data-everywhere.html) on uBiome during our coverage of Exponential Medicine in 2014.* The human microbiome is a phe**menally complex interaction of microorganisms that is still poorly understood.* uBiome looks to unravel the mystery by combining big data analysis with crowd sourcing.* “Citizen scientists” can contribute to uBiome by submitting sample swabs of themselves.* Analyzing this massive dataset may unlock unforeseen medical breakthroughs.
Vixiar: The readmission of patients with congestive heart failure is a major problem that has **t yet been adequately addressed.* One method for adjusting the medication dosage for these patient’s is the detection of left ventricle end diastolic pressure.* Vixiar has developed a low cost and **vel method of the detection of LVEDP that can be used without any special training in under 10 seconds. *The tech**logy works by blowing into a battery powered handpiece while wearing a finger probe.
Vynca:* Few patients want aggressive end of life care, however many patients never fill out advanced healthcare directives or they are lost, leading to a significant healthcare expenditure and emotional difficulty for families.* Vynca’s system streamlines documentation of advanced healthcare directives and integrates with existing EHR to ensure that patients’ wishes for their end-of-life care are documented and tracked accurately and easily.
Check out the semifinalists and their pitches here… (http://medtechin**vator.com/2015#semifinalists)
Vote until 6/25, 1pm PST here… (http://medtechin**vator.com/vote/wsgr2015/live)
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http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Medtech-In**vator.pngThe 20 semi-finalists for MedTech In**vator 2015 (http://medtechin**vator.com/vote/wsgr2015/live) have been an**unced. *300 early medtech startups applied for the coveted position.* Anyone can cast their vote for which companies you*feel should receive a coveted slot to present live on stage at the WSGR medical device conference in San Francisco this Friday (6/26).* Without further ado here are the semi-finalists and a brief desciption of their tech**logy:
Admetsys:* A combined insulin pump/glucometer Admetsys’s tech**logy looks to streamline care of diabetic patients in the hospital setting.* When diabetic patient’s are in the hospital their insulin is usually checked four*times a day, after meals and before bed.* This value is then used to adjust the subcutaneous insulin dose they receive.* The process is labor intensive and somewhat inexact.* Admetsys’s system connects to a patient’s IV and continuously detects blood glucose levels while delivering appropriate levels of insulin.
AMP3D:* Short for Adult Medical Predictive Devices, Diag**stics and Displays, AMP3D has developed a proprietary algorithm that can plug into existing electronic health record and bedside monitoring systems to predict adverse events.* These events include emergent intubation, hemorrhage and severe sepsis.* The algorithm uses big data analytics to predict these catastrophic events. If these events can be avoided it can save hospitals significant cost and improve patient outcomes.
Aperture Medical: A common method of dialysis access is the creation of an AV fistula.* Unfortunately, these access sites slowly narrow within a year requiring frequent procedures to restore access.* Aperture Medical has designed a one time use device that eliminates the cells involved in the blockage of dialysis access sites
Bloom Tech**logies:* Bloom tech**logies provides a proprietary prenatal sensor for home use that collects unspecified data.* This data is then analyzed to reassure or alert expectant mothers.* Eventually they anticipate that their massive dataset from their users can be combined and analyzed to better develop methods of predicting outcomes.
Briteseed:* Briteseed is back with their SafeSnips tech**logy.* They were featured in our report (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/medtech-in**vator-semifinalists-compete-today.html) on the 2014 MedTech in**vator semifinalists.* Their tech**logy is able to detect and alert laparoscopic surgeons before blood vessels are accidentally transected without requiring the use of special contrast or imaging.
Cognition Medical:** A stroke usually takes place when a major blood vessel to the brain has clotted off.* Removal of this clot is becoming an increasingly common procedure.* Unfortunately, the sudden return of blood-flow can cause a condition k**wn as re-perfusion injury.* Cognition Medical’s device regulates the return of oxygen to the brain, theoretically minimizing re-perfusion injury and improving outcomes for stroke patients.
CytoChip:* Blood tests such as the Complete Blood Count (CBC) can be cumbersome to perform in remote clinical settings.* CytoChip looks to streamline the process and lower costs by providing a low cost lab-on-a-chip device that can perform routine blood tests with a single drop of blood without requiring transport to a central lab.
Disease Diag**stic Group:* DDG has developed a low cost and highly accurate device to detect malaria.* Their device detects magnetic na**particles created by the parasite in a single drop of blood with magneto-optical tech**logy.* This is reportedly 1/10th the cost of ELISA and 100x more sensitive than Rapid Diag**stic Tests.* They are also looking to expand the tech**logy to other infectious diseases.
Emmetrope: Cataract surgery involves the replacement of the natural lens with an artificial version.* While highly successful, the artificial lens is somewhat limited in its ability to accommodate for near vision.* Emmetrope has designed a new type of lens that outperforms currently existing lens tech**logy in terms of anterior movement with accomodation.
Fosmomed:* We previously reported (http://www.medgadget.com/2013/08/fosmo-meds-dry-iv-bags-for-disaster-relief.html) on Fosmomed’s tech**logy in 2013.* Their device is an empty IV bag that can be shipped to remote areas for extremely low cost.* The bag can be filled with any water source and is sterile and ready for patient use within hours with ** requirement for external power.
InBrace: InBrace utilizes shape memory alloy behind the teeth to offer a **vel form of orthodontic treatment.* The device is reportedly more efficient than the popular invisalign and more cosmetically appealing than conventional orthodontic braces.
Lightpoint Medical: Inadequate surgical resection of cancer is common and a significant cause of recurrence.* Lightpoint Medical has developed a device that takes advantage of a phe**me**n k**wn as Cerenkov Luminescence.* Their product, LightPath, can detect the optical signal released from PET imaging agents to detect residual cancer cells intra-operatively and in real-time to hopefully decrease the incidence of positive margins.
MedAware:* Prescription errors are still a major issue despite the increasingly ubiquitous use of electronic medical record systems.* MedAware looks to address this problem utilizing big data techo**logy and proprietary algorithms.* They claim that their system is able to flag inappropriate prescriptions with high specificity and low “alert fatigue.”
MiNDERA:* A skin biopsy can be an uncomfortable procedure.* MiNDERA looks to circumvent this with their proprietary microneedle based solution.* Their tech**logy utilizes an array of microneedles to extract mRNA and other biomarkers from the skin which can then be analyzed for various pathology.* While **t equivalent to a skin biopsy, currently these types of biomarker assays could replace the need for the procedure in the future.
MobileODT: Cervical cancer is a treatable disease, however successful treatment requires timely detection.* MobileODT’s tech**logy uses smartphones to create a mobile colposcope.* This can be used to detect cervical cancer in low-resource settings and may one day even be able to replace pap smear and HPV testing.
PixelEXX Systems:* PixelEXX has created an impressively small camera for medical endoscopy.* The camera is a size of a ***** of sand (0.5 mm), with 80,000 pixels.* The camera may be able to used to access previously inaccessible areas endoscopically.
Spinal Singularity:* Paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury often have to self-catheterize multiple times a day to empty their bladder of urine.* This carries an infectious risk, is costly and also inconvenient.* Spinal Singularity looks to disrupt this standard with a smart catheter system that can detect when the bladder is full, alert the user and drain the bladder of urine in a controlled manner without requiring self-catheterization.
uBiome: We briefly reported (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/11/exponential-medicine-day-2-big-data-everywhere.html) on uBiome during our coverage of Exponential Medicine in 2014.* The human microbiome is a phe**menally complex interaction of microorganisms that is still poorly understood.* uBiome looks to unravel the mystery by combining big data analysis with crowd sourcing.* “Citizen scientists” can contribute to uBiome by submitting sample swabs of themselves.* Analyzing this massive dataset may unlock unforeseen medical breakthroughs.
Vixiar: The readmission of patients with congestive heart failure is a major problem that has **t yet been adequately addressed.* One method for adjusting the medication dosage for these patient’s is the detection of left ventricle end diastolic pressure.* Vixiar has developed a low cost and **vel method of the detection of LVEDP that can be used without any special training in under 10 seconds. *The tech**logy works by blowing into a battery powered handpiece while wearing a finger probe.
Vynca:* Few patients want aggressive end of life care, however many patients never fill out advanced healthcare directives or they are lost, leading to a significant healthcare expenditure and emotional difficulty for families.* Vynca’s system streamlines documentation of advanced healthcare directives and integrates with existing EHR to ensure that patients’ wishes for their end-of-life care are documented and tracked accurately and easily.
Check out the semifinalists and their pitches here… (http://medtechin**vator.com/2015#semifinalists)
Vote until 6/25, 1pm PST here… (http://medtechin**vator.com/vote/wsgr2015/live)
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