the $500 per patient per year that Medicare now sets aside for chronic care management services. The startup is raising $500,000.
GroupHub: This startup aims to supply independent insurance brokers with the tools to compete with tech companies like Zenefits. GroupHub provides these brokers with online software and a dashboard they can use to enroll small and midsize businesses into healthcare and benefit plans. It’s raising $500,000.
Healthy Bytes: This startup is trying to make it easier for dieticians to find more patients. CEO Amy Roberts says the Affordable Care Act now requires insurance companies to pay for preventative services—meaning nutrition counseling is covered. But this is a business model shift for dieticians; “few [of them] even know how to file a claim” because of the complicated process of filing and tracking them, so they’re losing business, she says. Healthy Bytes aims to simplify that process and get dieticians set up to easily accept insurance: the startup charges a 6 percent fee for claims it helps file. It’s raising $500,000.
Limestone Labs: Everyone loves their smartphone, but in hospitals, it can be a hazard. CEO Taylor Mann says that smartphones and other portable electronic devices are to blame for a number of hospital-acquired infections; his startup, Limestone Labs, has developed a device to stop that from happening. Called CleanSlate, the device uses ultraviolet technology to disinfect portable electronics in 30 seconds. Limestone has also developed cloud-based software that tracks which smartphones in hospitals have been sanitized, and where the risk areas are, Mann says. Limestone charges a $175 monthly fee for each sanitizer.
Moving Analytics: After suffering a heart attack, what can reduce your risk of another one? Cardiac rehab. Unfortunately, many patients don’t participate, says Moving Analytics CEO Harsh Vathsangam. That’s because it’s expensive and inconvenient (it requires dozens of hospital visits per year). Moving Analytics brings this process to the home with an app that guides patients through a program of exercise, educational videos, and vital-signs monitoring. The program is set up by a nurse who tracks the patient’s process through an online dashboard. As with GlucoIQ, Moving Analytics gets a piece of the per-patient sum set aside by Medicare for chronic care management. The startup is raising $600,000.
Signifikance: This startup is trying to help lab companies analyze and interpret genomic data coming out of their DNA sequencers faster, according to CEO Iker Huerga. After a lab company sequences genomic data, it uploads those data to Signifikance’s online system; the startup then classifies and prioritizes the most relevant genetic mutations, and generates a summary report with the most suitable treatment options. It charges $100 a report. Signifikance is raising $1 million.
TapGenes: CEO Heather Holmes says TapGenes has developed an online method to help folks “crowdsource their family’s health information.” The idea is for people to get a clear picture of their family’s health risks, so they can take any possible preventative measures. It charges $79 for an annual subscription. The startup is raising $1 million.
