The document discusses various health startups innovating in the field of health technology, including applications, wearables, and platforms. Key examples include Metamed's personalized medical research connections, ginger.io's mental health support app, and Medicast's on-demand house call service. These startups aim to enhance patient care, streamline health management, and improve rehabilitation through technology.

1. Author : Ruttala Akhil
College : Indian School Of Mines

2. Health startups now go beyond the fitness and
Entrepreneurs are building apps, wearables, devices,
software and platforms that are to do great things
and change the way we manage and regard health
and medicine.

4.  MetaMed
connects patients with serious medical conditions with the
world’s best researchers to conduct personalized medical
research. An organized effort by a team of researchers finds
all of the information relevant to the individual based on his
or her medical history, genetics, situation, and values with
concise, unbiased reports.

5.  Ginger.io
provides an app that uses sensor data collected through
smartphones and self-reported information to improve
mental health care and identify people who may need help.
The platform is currently being used for patient support at
partnering institutions and research conditions such as
research into conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder,
and chronic pain

7.  Medicast
enables users to request a house call from a doctor on
demand. A doctor will go to the user’s home, office, or
hotel within two hours and spend a minimum of 30
minutes with the patient. All doctors are screened and
certified, and the service is currently available in Miami,
Los Angeles, and San Diego.

8.  Breakthrough
recently acquired by MDLIVE, provides online
mental health care. The site helps users find the
right therapist from among its community of in-
state licensed and screened therapists, and offers
patients the benefits not only of convenience but of
privacy and cost savings.

10.  Mira
provides a software program that uses medically
approved games to accelerate rehab for patients
recovering from an injury or surgery. The system
transforms existing physical therapy exercises into
video games and uses a sensor to track and assess
patient compliance.

11.  Abiogenix provides the uBox, a smart pillbox that
reminds users to take their medications. The device
is portable, flexible, can keep family or a doctor
informed, and records what medications users take
in order to monitor how the user is doing. When
it’s time to take a medicine, the box will first flash,
then beep, then text the user.

13.  Propeller Health
Helps to manage asthma and COPD. The Propeller
inhaler sensor and app track the patient’s
medication use, and the app gives personalized
feedback and education on ways to improve on the
user’s asthma control of COPD status. Propeller
also enables physicians to monitor symptoms and
determine when a change in therapy is needed.

14.  Rip Road
enables health-care providers and health plans to
engage patients on their mobile devices, helping
them become more educated with personalized
programs that enable them to actively manage
their own health. Rip Road helps providers improve
patient outcomes, encourage adherence, and help
improve patient behavior.

16.  TrueVault
offers a secure API to enable developers to store
and handle health data, and it handles all of the
technical requirements mandated by HIPAA. True
Vault says that integration takes days and typically
saves months of development time for software,
mobile apps, Web apps, and wearable devices.

17.  Aptible
It is an application deployment platform that
automates HIPAA compliance for Web and mobile
technology. Startups using Aptible run the
applications and databases of their choice and
Aptible manages servers, security, encryption, etc.
Aptible generates documentation, audit logs, and
other materials needed to demonstrate compliance.