PILOT Health Tech NYC, a New York City Economic Development Corporation initiative, in collaboration with Health 2.0, Blueprint Health, and StartUp Health, provides funding of up to $100,000 each to 10 or more innovative projects that pilot new technologies in New York City healthcare settings. Today was the inaugural ‘Pilot Day’ where the 10 winners were announced and presented their ambitious pilot projects with NYC health care providers.
Without further ado, here are the 10 winners of PILOT Health Tech NYC:
AdhereTech and Weill Cornell Medical Center
Product: Wireless smart pill bottle
Dr. Roy Gulick, a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, is the principal investigator of the Cornell HIV Clinical Trials Unit. Gulick will use StartUp Health Healthcare Transformer AdhereTech’s wireless smart pill bottles to assess patient adherence to an HIV drug regimen over a 12 week period and compare it with the usual standard of care.
BioDigital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Product:interactive 3D virtual body
Memorial Sloan-Kettering is using BioDigital’s interactive 3D virtual body in the hospital’s clinical workflow as a tool to more effectively communicate complex health topics. The goal is increased patient engagement, understanding, and satisfaction.
Bio-Signal Group and New York Methodist Hospital
Product: microEEG
New York Methodist Hospital will pilot Bio-Signal’s microEEG to make electroencephalogram easier to perform in a healthcare setting. The device is an FDA-approved, miniature, wireless system using disposable electrodes and a network of teleneurologists to provide a remote, rapid interpretation of an EEG to an emergency department physician.
eCaring and Pace University
Product: web based care management and monitoring system
Pace will test outcomes of the eCaring web-based care management and monitoring system in a pilot program. It will asses the system in a population of chronically ill, multicultural older adults in Henry Street Settlement’s Vladeck Cares Naturally Occurring Retirement Community. It will evaluate the system impact on disease management, preventable events, and costs.
Flatiron Health and Continuum Health Partners
Product: big data analytics for oncology
Continuum Health Partners will use Google Ventures-backed Flatiron Health’s big data software platform for aggregated and structured clinical oncology data. The pilot will focus on measuring and improving a range of metrics relating to cancer care at their centers like operational, clinical, and financial performance data.
Opticology and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
Product: Ocular tear pen
The pilot will involve Opticology’s pen that measures glucose levels of diabetics using tears shed above the lower eyelid. It will measure the correlation between tear and blood glucose in diabetic patients.
Rip Road and VNSNY Choice SelectHealth
Product: Text messaging and engagement platform
SelectHealth and StartUp Health Healthcare Transformer Rip Road are developing a new engagement model for Medicaid members. Rip Road’s text messaging engagement platform will be used for member communications and patient data analysis. Adherence to appointments and medication refills are the pilot’s focus. The goals are to improve health outcomes, increase member satisfaction and retention, reduce hospitalizations and long-term care costs.
StarlingHealth and VillageCare
Product: Nurse call and bedside communication system
VillageCare is piloting StarlingHealth’s nurse call and bedside communication system. The goal is to improve patient care and satisfaction and reduce care delivery costs at its VillageCare Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, a 105-bed sub-acute facility. Residents will use multi-lingual touchscreen tablets to make specific requests. Staff will be able to view and prioritize these requests and management will have real-time visibility.
Sense Health and University Behavioral Associates
Product: Mobile patient support technology
Sense Health is working with University Behavioral Associates (affiliated with Montefiore) to pilot its mobile patient support technology with case managers and patients in the Managed Addiction Treatment Services Program. The goal is to validate a technology that efficiently helps case managers deliver high intensity support to growing patient case loads.
Vital Care Services and Pace University
Product: Telehealth
Pace University will use a pilot to test the effectiveness of TeleHealth solutions to meet current and projected needs of diverse socio-economic communities in New York City. Pace student technicians will assist patients in taking their vitals, which are monitored remotely by a Pace RN. Key objectives of the pilot are to reduce healthcare cost, increase access and quality of care, and train future working professionals at the university level.
A huge congratulations to all of these winners and we look forward to hearing updates on their progress!