among some 100 entries that responded to the incentive prize challenge issued in January by Janssen Healthcare Innovation for technology solutions to improve care for patients who’ve just been discharged from a hospital. Janssen worked with the National Transitions of Care Coalition to develop the evaluation criteria for the submissions and to recruit experts to serve as judges.
In a statement today, Janssen’s Park says, “D2S2 brings innovation to discharge planning by introducing standardization into the admissions process, which is highly variable.”
A screening committee selected D2S2 and two other entries, Chicago-based Cara Health and Bethesda, MD-based Care Rocket, as finalists in April. Each finalist was awarded $50,000 and presented their respective innovations to an eight-judge panel in New York City earlier this month. Videos of the presentations are available here.
Janssen says the winner and finalists will retain all proprietary rights to their submitted proposals.
Heil, who is RightCare’s founding CEO, says the company also was the grand prize winner of the 2012 Wharton Business Plan Competition. With a total of $200,000 in winnings, the company plans to build-out its D2S2 software in a pilot project at four hospitals. “That’s been our seed funding,” Heil says.
The startup, which was founded last year, also is on track to raise an initial round of venture funding, Heil says.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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