Most business accelerator programs give entrepreneurs a bit of cash, connect them with mentors, and run boot camps to help turn their ideas into products. At the New York Digital Health Accelerator, tech startups get two other things to help them build software to improve health care: access to New York State’s many hospitals and their data.
Seven entrepreneurs in the year-old accelerator pitched their products to investors Wednesday at the program’s demo day to show off the software they’ve refined over the last nine months. They’re trying to solve some of the thorniest tech problems doctors and hospitals have: How do you keep patients who leave the hospital from returning? How do you keep track of treatments prescribed by different doctors and ensure they don’t conflict with each other? How do doctors securely communicate with each other and with patients once they leave the clinic?
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