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The Most Innovative Companies Bringing AI to Healthcare management, as a mentor in the Presentense entrepreneurship program. A Solution that Stands Out Healthymize offers its voice analysis for integration into remote patient monitoring systems. Its goal is to provide a voice monitoring solution for home care, chronic care management, and readmission preventions. Healthymize prevents hospitalization and saves billions using personalized, AI- based, patented voice technology that turns smartphones, tablets, smart watches and home virtual assistants into continuous health monitoring devices. It is developing personalized, AI-based voice analysis that turns smart devices into remote patient monitoring devices for voice-affecting diseases. Healthymize automates labor intensive phone monitoring typically in place to prevent readmissions and manage chronic patients, giving clinicians the ability to assess the voice of the patient at any time. By utilizing advanced deep learning algorithms to analyze the human voice during regular calls or voice interaction with these devices, Healthymize provides remote patient monitoring for voice-affecting diseases such as asthma, COPD, heart failure and mental health disorders. Healthymize aims to detect flare ups early and can be integrated into systems that remotely monitor patient vital signs. Remote Monitoring: The company’s goal is to monitor the progression of these diseases wherever and whenever patients speak on their smartphones. Healthymize analyzes voice samples from the patient aiming to identify the onset of flare ups. When a flare up is detected, the Healthymize system can alert the medical teams to enable early treatment of patients at home, by keeping them where they feel most comfortable. Consider a patient suffering with COPD. It is a progressive disease that restricts lung airflow. A COPD patient suffers from flare-ups that are characterized by shortness of breath, coughs, and sputum production. Delayed diagnosis and treatment of these flare-ups often results in severe exacerbations requiring hospitalization. The overall prevalence of COPD in the general population DECEMBER 2018 is more than 5 percent. Prevalence increases with age, reaching about 10 percent among adults between 75-84 years old. In 2010, the overall cost of COPD in the US was $36 billion and is We offer a personalized, estimated to reach AI-based, patented voice $49 billion by 2020. analysis designed to turn Costs due to COPD- smart devices and home related care are virtual assistants into driven primarily by continuous health- hospitalizations. This monitoring devices is where Healthymize “ can help with remote monitoring that will allow the care team to stay apprised of the patient’s condition while they are at home. ” Uniqueness of its Services For patients: · Prevent condition from worsening by predicting flare ups · Save time, anguish, and money by reducing hospital visits For Health Care Providers: · Detect flare ups earlier and to allow treatment to be delivered faster · Improves coordination and delivery of care · Save costs of hospitalization Bright Future of the Company Healthymize is building strong partnerships that will enable it to shape its product to market needs and gain credibility at the earliest stage possible. The company’s partnership with Henry Ford Health System is one such example and it is building other strong provider and industry partnerships. 25