The companies selected for the latest AWS Healthcare Accelerator will focus on three critical needs in the field, said Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of International Public Sector Health & the Global Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups. Healthcare sector: maintenance, implementation and training. team at AWS.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
AWS Accelerators are engineering, business, and mentoring programs that help startups enhance their digital solutions using the cloud, such as last year’s AWS accelerator focused on health equity.
Mentors for the latest global healthcare workforce accelerator include the American Hospital Association, CATI, Deloitte, Intermountain Ventures and several others across the US and EMEA.
In a blog post, Illing said this year’s healthcare acceleration team members were selected from hundreds of applicants worldwide.
He notes that many startups are helping providers “reduce individual workloads by eliminating friction in daily processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing financial data, outsource basic tasks to solutions that support artificial intelligence and support flexible and happy work”. arrange.”
Meanwhile, others focus on remote monitoring, secure communication, patient engagement, mobile health workforce, and training tools.
The nearly two dozen companies in this new group are:
- Medical Momo. The “BedSense” app provides detailed information on memory care needs and nursing home residents.
- eConsult. A digital triage and consultation platform for use in primary and emergency care.
- Navenio. Location-based solutions can help optimize the use of support teams throughout the hospital – such as cleaning staff and allied medical professionals.
- Babble. A practice-wide communication system can help free up primary care staff.
- RxPlace. The business-to-business market helps manage pharmacy operations.
- Dropstat. An AI-powered HR solution that automates employee management.
- super care. A set of mobile collaboration tools to automate manual processes and optimize call center operations.
- IQ INK. A platform that silently integrates data and automates manual workflows and uses analytics.
- Doctor’s residence. Workforce management software automatically generates healthcare worker schedules.
- Rose Health. Clinically validated behavioral health patient monitoring can assist mental health providers.
- IoT Solutions Team. Monitor sensor-based activity models to help support aged care and intensive care.
- Disease monitoring. AI-powered tools communicate directly with electronic health records and can optimize pathology in dermatology practice.
- The TeleDentists. A virtual delivery platform for acute, chronic, primary and specialty dental care can reduce emergency room visits.
- Visible. A platform that provides real-time, multi-stream video solutions to support remote decision-making.
- Notify me. A platform that enables digital patient communication through mobile devices.
- Mytonomy. The video-based patient engagement platform can send pre-operative instructions and help improve patient safety and save nurses time.
- Kare Mobile. A mobile dental platform that can provide comprehensive dental services to underserved areas and support new practices.
- Supportiv. A peer-to-peer emotional and social support platform complements professional care.
- Grapefruit Health. It recruits and trains clinical students to support understaffed healthcare organizations.
- MONNHUB. A virtual reality platform can provide cost-effective training for nursing homes.
- asymptotic. A platform that allows clinicians to virtually enter operating rooms and catheterization rooms to enable real-time guidance and second opinions.
- compass. A mobile app that manages team skills and ensures compliance standards.
- Florence. A virtual training platform that connects nursing homes and hospitals with background-checked nurses and support staff.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Jeff Kratz, general manager of AWS, Global Public Sector Partner, spoke with Healthcare IT News a few months ago about AWS healthcare acceleration initiatives – and how the cloud can help healthcare providers around the world with tools to help tackle burnout and staff shortages.
“While technology is not a silver bullet, we believe it can be a enabler, and an important part of this is using cloud-based technology that enables This solution scales.”
He notes that the third key area the accelerator tries to address – workforce deployment – speaks to the growing trend of patient access throughout the continuum of care.
“Technologies that support decentralized care, such as healthcare in virtual wards, community facilities, and home care facilities, have huge potential.”
ON PROFILE
“After ramping up care for more than six million COVID-19 patients over the past three years, our healthcare workforce,” said Dr. Chris DeRienzo, chief executive officer of AHA in an AWS post. I’m exhausted.
“To better enhance today’s workforce and grow tomorrow’s workforce, we must bring together experts and innovators, and we must do it now. I have witnessed first-hand how technology can improve care processes, allowing both clinicians and support team members to spend more time improving patient outcomes.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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Stephanie Chia, Russ Hinz, and Susan Tolin will provide more details during the HIMSS23 session “Equality in the Chicago South: Connected Care Technology.” Scheduled for Wednesday, April 19 at 1pm-2pm CT at South Building, 1st Floor, room S103.
