Monday, July 1, 2019

Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Names New Class

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, the startup accelerator associated with Cedars-Sinai, has announced its next class, saying it has added 11 new health-tech companies into its newest accelerator class. According to the accelerator, whichi s managed by Anne Wellington, the teams will spend three months in the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space, which is immediately across the street from the Cedars-Sinai medical center; all of the startups will received $100,000 in an investment, and present at the accelerator's Demo Day. The new companies include AMPAworks (inventory management); ClinicianNexus (Airbnb for clinical rotations); Feedtrail (healthcare surveys); FocusMotion HealthHawthorne Effect (virtual platform for tracking clinical trial data); Health Note (physician-patient interaction documentation); Lantum (shift scheduling for doctors and nurses); Notisphere (product recall tracking); OMNY (pharmaceutical data sharing); Parker Isaac INstruments (tissue separation instrument for pathology); and Virti (VR and AR for helping with dealing with and training for traumatic events and other hospital situations).