Omaiven Health and Lucia Health Guidelines will each receive US$100,000 in grant funding from Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures.
Both are Accelerators launched this year Johnson & Johnson and Rural Capital focus on the care of cultural competence. Village Capital investment analyst Bryson Hearne said in an interview with Zoom that they were selected by their peers for the award after being evaluated based on eight criteria and deemed “the most suitable investment.”
Here is what they are doing and how they plan to use the funds:
Omaiwen Health
Gerald MacDonald
Omaiven Health’s software in Austin, Texas helps clinics automate multiple patient-oriented tasks, such as scheduling. After spending most of his career in the healthcare field, Jerold McDonald founded the company in 2018 and most recently served as Athenaheath’s Director of Entry. His goal is to ensure that community health centers and small clinics that provide care for many low-income and uninsured patients have the same accessibility as their counterparts in the larger health system.
“Fundamentally speaking, they want to provide more opportunities for patients, but they do not necessarily have all the staff or the means to be able to work 24/7 in multiple languages,” he said. “Our solution is right next to the call center or front desk staff and allows them to extend the coverage to the community.”
Mia, the startup’s AI assistant, can also help answer questions about Covid-19 testing or determine whether patients may need transportation to make an appointment.
For example, the start-up company partnered with a community clinic to help them provide 12,000 vaccines in communities with high poverty rates, saving them more than 150 hours of working hours. Manually, this process will perform 51 steps in six different applications.
Omaiven is currently raising a seed round. It also plans to use the grant funds for more case studies of its software.
Lucia Health Guide
PhD.Gil Anthony Angabe
Lucia Health Guidelines in San Francisco has developed software for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation. Although most of the discussion revolves around the capabilities of gorgeous wearable devices to detect potential AFib cases, Lucia Health focuses on helping clinicians in hospitals diagnose patients and ensure that they are safely discharged from the hospital with appropriate treatment.
The startup’s co-founder and chief medical officer, Dr. GilAnthony Ungab, became a cardiac electrophysiologist after his father had a stroke when he was young. He named the company after his mother.
When he became the medical director of the local hospital, “I heard more code strokes than code heart attacks,” he said. “Because of my family’s experience, because of my father’s experience, I brought my friends together, and we are committed to improving the way we treat patients.”
The idea is that most strokes caused by AFib can be prevented with appropriate treatments (such as anticoagulants). But in the community of Ungab, near the border with San Diego, most patients diagnosed with AFib did not take any measures for this.
Lucia’s system is designed to help ER clinicians who may not have received cardiology training to diagnose AFib patients based on ECG readings. It also facilitates the transition of care after patients leave the hospital, ensuring that they have follow-up appointments.
start up Recently announced results A single-point retrospective study in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians found that its app detected 97.6% of atrial fibrillation cases, outperforming ED doctors. It also recommends anticoagulants more frequently.
Ungab plans to use the funds to conduct prospective research on Lucia’s technology.
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