Meet the Companies
Get to know our semifinalists in the 2024 Prime Health Innovation Challenge in Colorado! These innovative solutions and the companies and founders behind them are working to improve health equity and change the face of healthcare.
Haven
Haven's advanced illness platform combines clinical care with quality improvement to help providers support patients through illness, promoting healing and resilience. Backed by evidence-based clinical research, we leverage technology for whole person care delivery, aligning stakeholder objectives to improve lives, outcomes, rewards.
Many quality improvement programs burden staff and lessen patient interaction. Getting care team buy-in has historically been a hurdle. But Haven’s patient-centered digital health tool streamlines care without taking away time from caregiving, deepens connections between patients and staff, and improves patient and family experience.
Rocket Doctor
Rocket Doctor is a Medicaid-focused digital health platform and marketplace that integrates a unique support system, advanced AI-fueled software and wireless medical devices.
Like a Shopify for providers, we enable doctors with the tools and resources needed to run successful independent virtual practices. . Launched 3 years ago, we’ve powered 400+ MDs to provide care to 280,000+ patients (50% of whom lacked access to a primary care provider).
Jura Health, Inc.
Jura Health is revolutionizing access to genetic testing for diagnosing rare disease patients through an innovative health data platform. We aim to reduce the average diagnosis time of 4.8 years by providing immediate access to comprehensive genetic testing and support, particularly for underserved communities. Our unique approach not only fast-tracks patient care but also fuels research advancements, offering a new horizon in personalized medicine and equitable health access.
TabSafe
TabSafe is an easy-to-use solution for managing medications. When a medication is due, an alert reminds the user to press a button which triggers the medication to dispense into a drawer. Medications can be loaded either by the user, a caregiver, or pharmacist into four individual or multi-dose cassettes. It plugs into an electrical outlet and a phone line. TabSafe then transmits and downloads the programmed medication schedules and reports for secure online access. Custom visual reminders can also be added for activities of daily living such as “Check Blood Pressure” or “Meal Time”. TabSafe is designed as a secure, locking unit. Each individual medication cassette remains secure until the TabSafe unit is unlocked for reloading. The dispensing drawer also remains locked until the actual release of the medication occurs. Optional security features include the use of a PIN number to gain access.
ThriveLink
ThriveLink builds telephonic artificially intelligent enrollment agents who talk to families and empower them to verbally enroll in social programs like health insurance, food stamps, and utility assistance with no internet, smartphone, or reading required. Our innovative solution enhances access to vital social services, streamlining the enrollment process to ensure families receive the support they need.
CollaborationCare
https://www.collaborationcare.com
Collaboration Care is a virtual integrated care program that works with primary care and selected specialty practices to improve the way that adult behavioral health problems (including both psychiatric disorders and risky health behaviors) are managed in this country. This is accomplished through innovative, evidence based scripted counseling content for all of the adult behavioral health problems typically seen by PCPs. This content is reliably provided in a variety of virtual formats (ie telephone or video calls or online, with or without coaching support) by our dynamic cloud based platform and behavioral health coaches. Our programs have been uniquely tailored to meet the specific needs of both PCPs and their patients. They are offered to practices for free, with revenue generated from rarely used billing codes and can be seamlessly integrated into PCPs’ workflows. Our rigorous data collection and analysis supports population health, continuous quality improvement and improved patient outcomes
Pear Suite
Pear Suite's care navigation platform empowers community health workers, promotores, and health representatives to meet the social drivers of health needs of older adults and underserved groups. Using omni-channel communications, customizable screening tools and care journeys, dynamic dashboards, and predictive insights, Pear Suite helps organizations boost well-being and independence in a culturally and linguistically sensitive way.
Medecipher
Medecipher, a SnapCare Company, specializes in solving inefficiencies in nurse scheduling. Our software tool, innovates and automates nurse scheduling with operations research-backed decision support, helping managers decide how to schedule nursing resources to meet patient needs and place staff and providers in the best position to care for their patients. It doesn't replace time & attendance solutions. It fills the gaps where those solutions leave off, automatically balancing skills and experience to create a schedule that optimizes safety, reduces labor costs, and promotes a healthy work environment.
Health Tequity LLC
Health Tequity LLC helps communities build capacity and dismantle barriers to good health through digital health innovation and collaboration. Our unique approach to community co-design leads to digital care coordination solutions that are optimized to community settings and deliver real-world health outcomes. Our flagship product is ACTIVATE, a digital health equity platform for chronic care coordination co-designed with community providers and patients. ACTIVATE is a flexible and HIPAA-compliant cloud platform includes operating system-agnostic remote patient monitoring, dashboards for actionable care coordination, and EHR data integration. The platform is optimized for implementation in community health organizations with 1) “digital health pathway” models for care coordination in diabetes and hypertension and these models are adaptable for other conditions, 2) implementation toolkit for efficient implementation, 3) digital health literacy resources to help patients embrace technology. Our proof of concept is the outcomes we’ve achieved in multiple rural and underserved communities.
She Matters, Incorporated
She Matters is a digital health platform transforming Black maternal health through cultural competency and technology. She Matters, founded by Jade Kearney and Marguerite Pierce, offers a unique culturally competent certification for healthcare providers developed with maternal health and equity experts. This certification, the first of its kind, emphasizes patient and provider safety, effective communication, and the history of systemic racism in healthcare. By leveraging technology, She Matters ensures accountability and cultural competence in healthcare. It is a leading authority in Black Maternal Health and a beacon of hope for Black mothers seeking culturally attuned care.
Duality Systems
Duality Systems, LLC is a Woman- and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in AI-driven optimization solutions. Our flagship product, Balance Scheduler, delivers workforce optimization through automation and personalization of work schedules in complex organizations, particularly in healthcare. By balancing institutional requirements with individual employee preferences, our solution reduces scheduling time from hours to minutes, significantly improving work-life balance and reducing staff turnover while saving money. Founded by a team of experts in healthcare and technology, Duality Systems leverages deep industry knowledge and cutting-edge technology to address some of the most pressing issues in healthcare today: provider burnout and retention and hospital revenue. Based in Colorado, we are dedicated to enhancing operational efficiency and staff satisfaction across diverse sectors.
Welfie
Welfie is on a mission to create generational health and generational wealth for underserved families. We are building a health equity platform for kids that connects youth and their families to youth serving health organizations that include schools, pediatric hospitals, clinics and community based organizations. We focus on increasing health literacy and access to care, ultimately improving the whole child, whole family and whole community health.
Lasa Health
Lasa Health is an AI/ML health tech company dedicated to supporting the diagnosis and management of pelvic pain disorders. Lasa Health was founded by Margaret Melville, who suffered from chronic pelvic pain for over a decade and visited 25 doctors before finding a diagnosis. Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects 26% of women globally and can take 6-12 years to diagnose.
Lasa Health’s B2B SaaS platform seamlessly integrates into clinician workflows, screening patients for commonly overlooked conditions, and reducing the overall cost of care. The company's innovative approach is supported by Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, and aims to revolutionize women's healthcare through advanced technology, improving care coordination and patient outcomes. Their mission is to expand equitable access to care, ensuring that Lasa Health’s technology reaches underserved populations.
Health Note
Health Note empowers healthcare organizations to adopt new AI-driven use cases for physicians and patients to assist with intake and documentation. Health Note is the first and only end-to-end clinically intelligent documentation platform, supporting patients and physicians before, during, and after each encounter. Prior to the appointment, Health Note empowers patients to summarize important reasons for their visit into the physician’s EHR note which provably shortens visits by 3-5 minutes and increases satisfaction. During the visit, Health Note allows physicians to be fully present by leveraging the latest in medical audio transcription to faithfully capture each encounter. Once an encounter is complete, Health Note summarizes visits into physician templates for EHR documentation. Additionally, with improved documentation and capture of patient-reported outcomes and screeners, Health Note increases revenue integrity and compliance for organizations.