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HeyRenee is the personal health concierge, everyone, especially those managing chronic illnesses and conditions, has wanted and needed. The patient-centric HeyRenee platform is designed to consolidate, coordinate, communicate and connect all aspects of medical care. Through long-sought data integration with healthcare providers, the platform endeavors to eventually help all Americans, the underserved especially, connect with their entire healthcare team and relieve the burdens of appointment scheduling, in-home visits, prescription medication administration to Telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and more

HealthOpX L.L.C. is a company that has developed an online platform aimed at assisting patients and community health workers in managing social determinants of health. Founded in 2018 and based in East Lansing, Michigan, HealthOpX provides various services, including health appointment assistance, checklists, caregiver guidance, and access to community resources. The platform focuses on improving the health of at-risk patients through predictive analytics, facilitating care coordination, enhancing medical adherence, and boosting patient engagement. By offering these tools, HealthOpX enables healthcare practitioners to deliver quality care outcomes more conveniently and cost-effectively, ultimately benefiting patients, hospitals, and caregivers alike.

Developer of insurtech platform designed to contribute to the prevention, care, and restoration of the health of users and ensure the safety of their assets and health. The company's platform offers features like booking a home appointment, physical activity tracking, suggesting healthy meals, ambulance service requests, around-the-clock medicinal, nutritional, and emotional assistance, and more, thereby enabling users to complete their treatments at hospitals at no additional expenses.

DAKKO Wellbeing is the marketplace that enables access to Health & Financial Wellness services for employees and their families. DAKKO empowers emerging market employers to engage with their employees by offering digital services like HR services, rewarding them for applying for medical loans and health insurance, booking medical appointments, playing sports and taking care of their health and wellbeing. Studies show that high employee wellbeing boosts satisfaction, teamwork, productivity, and even improves a company’s bottom line. Along the journey, DAKKO intends to provide micro recommendations that improve financial, insurance & health literacy, building skills for better long term wellbeing.

Insu Health Design develops a personal-use system for storing medicines. The storage integrates a thermoelectric cooler, vacuum flask, and fluid loop to keep medicine cool for long. It includes inexpensive solar panels and a portable, battery-powered cooler with multiple charging options, enabling patients who use bio-medicines like insulin to protect their health by preventing it from spoiling during times of travel, power outages, or disaster situations. Mason Lucich and Doris Candelaria co-founded the company in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2018.

Our mission is to become the standard operating platform in the life insurance industry. We offer proactive beneficiary management and claims platform that is cloud-based, secure, and easily connectable to legacy systems. Benekiva is a technology platform designed to solve specific problems within the Life/Annuity industry while providing a beautiful customer experience. We created a SaaS platform that is rules/data-driven and Blockchain backed that allows life insurance companies to proactively update policyholder information, update and better manage beneficiary information, 100% digital claims process, provide an opportunity for the carrier agency or advisory force to retain the asset, and comply with the updated unclaimed property and escheatment laws. Benekiva helps insurance companies solve the following problems: Claims Automation – Automating the documentation and payment processing between beneficiaries and insurance companies with blockchain protection. We also have an asset retention model for companies with an agent/advisor/or licensed reps salesforce. Policyholder and Beneficiary Management and Notification – Managing all policyholder and beneficiary related processes such as updates to critical information, notification of events, and 100% end to end claims processing. Data Analytics – Turning your claims processes into revenue generating engine through robust analytics, notification, and asset retention. Compliance with unclaimed property and escheatment laws. We are on a mission to create the platform of choice for insurance companies with a beneficiary first mindset.

HealthyHealth is building a new Standard for Life and Health Insurance Underwriting. We use digital data to calculate the risk of diagnosis for over 800 conditions, along with Extra Mortalities and Morbidities, saving applicants hours filling out long questionnaires or visiting the doctor. Find out more via www.healthyhealth.com

Worthright is a financial service company that helps seniors and their families find financial confidence and freedom in retirement. The company focuses on using existing life insurance to fund retirement costs and care needs. They do that by delivering intelligent technology that makes evaluating, servicing and selling a policy seamless - resulting in a powerful grasp of what options are available to a family to pay for and live a full life.

Ianacare, Inc. is a health care company focused on supporting family caregivers through its ianacare platform, which offers products and services via mobile applications. Founded in 2017 and based in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the company provides care management for individuals with chronic illnesses and other challenges. The platform facilitates connections among caregivers, care recipients, and care supporters, ensuring that users receive the encouragement and resources they need. Ianacare aims to empower caregivers by drawing on the experiences of caregivers, patients, and medical professionals, thereby addressing the complexities of caregiving in a comprehensive manner.

HUED is a platform that diversifies the patient/doctor connection by connecting patients with diverse healthcare providers.

ElegirSeguro.com designs and develops a platform that provides insurance advice via various channels and manage policies online. It offers insurances for advice, consulting and professions in general, construction and works in general, manufacturing, gastronomic, hotel, spa and services, logistics and distribution, and retail sales industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

HUED is a platform that diversifies the patient/doctor connection by connecting patients with diverse healthcare providers.

Our mission is to become the standard operating platform in the life insurance industry. We offer proactive beneficiary management and claims platform that is cloud-based, secure, and easily connectable to legacy systems. Benekiva is a technology platform designed to solve specific problems within the Life/Annuity industry while providing a beautiful customer experience. We created a SaaS platform that is rules/data-driven and Blockchain backed that allows life insurance companies to proactively update policyholder information, update and better manage beneficiary information, 100% digital claims process, provide an opportunity for the carrier agency or advisory force to retain the asset, and comply with the updated unclaimed property and escheatment laws. Benekiva helps insurance companies solve the following problems: Claims Automation – Automating the documentation and payment processing between beneficiaries and insurance companies with blockchain protection. We also have an asset retention model for companies with an agent/advisor/or licensed reps salesforce. Policyholder and Beneficiary Management and Notification – Managing all policyholder and beneficiary related processes such as updates to critical information, notification of events, and 100% end to end claims processing. Data Analytics – Turning your claims processes into revenue generating engine through robust analytics, notification, and asset retention. Compliance with unclaimed property and escheatment laws. We are on a mission to create the platform of choice for insurance companies with a beneficiary first mindset.

Intus Care, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in North Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 2018. It has developed a platform that connects home care providers with patients, enabling organizations to monitor caregiver efficiency through electronic visit verification. The platform employs machine learning to analyze electronic health records, predicting hospital readmissions and utilization risks. It provides tools for automatic patient risk grouping, identifying individuals at high risk for hospitalizations, and facilitating timely communication among care coordination teams. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance care for socially vulnerable and clinically complex patients in settings such as PACE programs, nursing homes, and home care agencies, ultimately reducing hospitalizations and promoting cost-effective healthcare solutions.

Intus Care, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in North Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 2018. It has developed a platform that connects home care providers with patients, enabling organizations to monitor caregiver efficiency through electronic visit verification. The platform employs machine learning to analyze electronic health records, predicting hospital readmissions and utilization risks. It provides tools for automatic patient risk grouping, identifying individuals at high risk for hospitalizations, and facilitating timely communication among care coordination teams. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance care for socially vulnerable and clinically complex patients in settings such as PACE programs, nursing homes, and home care agencies, ultimately reducing hospitalizations and promoting cost-effective healthcare solutions.

Surround designs customer-centric insurance products for modern lifestyles. The company’s first offering is a subscription starter pack of insurance coverages for young, urban professionals who rent, share, borrow, and freelance.

1upHealth, Inc. is a health-tech company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. It operates a health data aggregation and centralization platform that facilitates the secure transmission of medical data between health systems and consumer applications. The platform consolidates health information from various electronic medical record systems, allowing users to control and share their digital health records with healthcare providers. Additionally, it enables providers to access and query the most current patient data from multiple connected health systems. The platform also supports software developers by providing access to clinical data from various clinics and hospitals, ultimately aiming to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs through better data utilization.

RECLAIM is a financial wellness app that relieves patients from financial stress so that they can focus on their wellbeing. It helps healthcare users understand their care pathway and what to expect ahead, save on their cost of care, and optimize their insurance selection to best mitigate their financial risk. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Caura is the payment platform for your car to manage parking, tolls, congestion charge, MOTs, vehicle tax, and insurance. Caura Protect is an FCA registered product with seven insurers, allowing drivers to purchase and manage motor insurance. Caura Maintain seamlessly manages MOTs and vehicle servicing.

For businesses to be competitive, employers need to supercharge their human capital at lower cost. They need actionable insights to see clearly and save on healthcare spend. z5 is a SaaS-based tool that combines employer's health and wellness data from multiple sources, uses advanced analytical and predictive techniques to: reveal the underlying drivers of their healthcare spend, assess the performance and impact of all their health and wellness initiatives, and guide them on the choices they need to make. HR and Finance functions are looking to understand the performance of health programs, providers and plans and reduce healthcare spend. We also target corporate wellness providers and benefit consultants. Our target customers are self-insured employers (1K - 10K employees). There are over 47K self-insured employers in the US that fit our sweet-spot.

Buoy Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2014, Buoy Health specializes in artificial intelligence-driven digital health solutions that assist individuals in managing their health and healthcare options. The company offers a personalized online healthcare chatbot, known as Buoy Assistant, which analyzes symptoms, facilitates initial triage, and provides treatment recommendations. This platform enables users to conduct real-time assessments of their symptoms while simplifying the navigation of the healthcare system. Additionally, Buoy Health provides resources for employees through its Buoy Dashboard, allowing them to research benefits, access wellness programs, and connect with in-network providers. The service is available 24/7, making self-diagnosis and healthcare navigation straightforward and accessible.

Developer of an insurance platform designed to provide major medical expense coverage at lower costs. The company's platform offers transparent and accessible rates for the best coverage, with a wellness program that includes online consultations with doctors, discounts at gyms, and many other benefits, enabling individuals, families, and employees looking for affordable health insurance to protect their finances and health against accidents and illnesses.

Hippocrate is a cloud-based big data medical platform founded in 2014 and based in Tunis, Tunisia. The organization focuses on analyzing the human genome and aims to enhance healthcare access for patients globally. Through its healthcare analytics platform, Hippocrate facilitates the sharing of patients' medical information among hospitals, allowing authorized medical professionals to access critical data during doctor visits and emergencies. This connectivity helps healthcare providers organize and utilize medical information effectively, contributing to improved medical research and patient care. As a non-profit entity, Hippocrate is driven by a commitment to develop disruptive medical solutions that aim to enhance the quality of life for individuals worldwide.

Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

MARV-IN is a platform that shortens the underwriting process in insurance companies and provides a quick solution for purchasing insurance.

Pillo, Inc. designs and develops a digital care management platform that provides health care plans for adults with chronic conditions at home. The company offers Pillo, a robot, which enable people to manage their health; answer health and wellness questions; connect with healthcare professionals; manage vitamins and medication; and store, dispense, and order refills when required. The company’s robot also sends notifications to the user when medications are missed; sees and hears user to keep them healthy and safe; and syncs with wearables and smart home devices. Pillo, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Kayum simplifies personal insurance for Latin American consumers, starting in Mexico. The Mexican market is mostly opaque with complicated offers; it’s also expensive partly because 43% of premiums are spent on SG&A. Consumers actively research insurance online, performing 110 million Insurance-related searches every year. To satisfy this demand and close the coverage gap, Kayum offers price comparison aided by personalized, AI-generated recommendations helping consumers make the best choice.

Aero-plan.com is an online B2B marketplace for Medical Transport services, connecting Travel Insurance and Assistance companies with quality vetted Medical air transport providers. Aero-plan’s constantly expanding network of top Air Ambulance / Commercial escort providers serves leading Insurance / Assistance companies worldwide.

At Health Advocacy Innovations, they turn the many issues related to global health on their head to see them from a different angle. They believe most problems are not only solvable, but solvable in a low-tech way. Low-tech does not only mean minimal technology, but also simple and intuitive to use and able to be made at minimal cost. In many regions of the world, disease is not simply the result of contracting a virus or bacteria by chance. Physical and structural violence perpetuate cycles of poverty and disease, the consequences of which can reverberate for generations. Healthy citizens are more productive citizens, and health can be as much an instrument for development as for individual well-being. Understanding health as a prerequisite for lifelong success incentivizes governments and organizations to promote the general welfare of populations. They believe in health as a human right, and we're dedicating our work to making that concept a reality.

Medlio Inc. provides Medlio, a smartphone-based health insurance card that delivers up-to-date health benefits information, as well as a centralized location for creating, storing, and sharing medical forms. Its application helps providers to estimate the cost of patient encounters before they occur to collect patient-responsible balances on the front-end prior to service. Medlio Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

iQuartic, Inc. specializes in developing cloud platforms aimed at data networking and mining within the healthcare sector. The company's technology facilitates essential functions such as EHR and claims auditing, quality benchmarking, population health management, disease management, risk profiling, and revenue optimization. Key offerings include the iQ EHR Network, which integrates disparate EMR systems across various facilities; iQ EHR Auditing, which utilizes advanced analytics to identify inconsistencies in EHR data; and iQ ACO Software, designed for accountable care organizations to analyze networks and patient data comprehensively. Additional products encompass predictive modeling tools like the EHR Data Auditor, which focuses on HIV patient reporting; the Diabetes Management Scorecard; and the COPD Population Profiler, among others. These tools aim to enhance chronic disease management, predict hospital readmissions, and improve clinician profiling. Founded in 2012, iQuartic is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are a serious health and economic issue, affecting more than 2 million people and causing nearly 100,000 deaths every year in the United States alone. The HanGenix Compliance Reliance system improves hand hygiene compliance while capturing and reporting progress against organizational goals. By doing so, hospitals will reduce the occurrence of HAIs and the nearly $40 billion in annual costs associated with them worldwide.