GE and Wayra collaborate with seven start-ups to drive digital transformation of healthcare
Seven health technology start-ups have formed the second cohort of the Edison Accelerator in the EMEA. The Edison Accelerator is a healthcare start-up and scale-up acceleration and collaboration programme designed by GE Healthcare, working in partnership with innovation organisation Wayra UK.
Over six months the start-ups will gain access to GE Healthcare solutions and integrations, as well as access to healthcare providers to test their products on existing workflows and technologies.
GE Healthcare senior director digital ecosystem and programme leader Jan Beger said: “The challenges the healthcare sector is facing today are too complex for a single company to solve. Through Edison Accelerators, we are bringing together ideas, skills, a network and other resources. This can result in powerful innovations that generate real impact, driving digital transformation and striving for an improved patient experience.”
UK-based Alertive is a technology company that builds mobile and desktop applications to simplify teamwork for critical care workers, connecting them with colleagues and patient information at the point of care.
Another UK company, xWave Technologies was founded in 2020 by a group of radiologists who wanted to create intelligent solutions for the problems they were facing in their day-to-day work.
Spain-based Idoven advances early detection and precision medicine for cardiovascular diseases. Its AI platform is designed to deliver sustainable improvements to the speed, consistency and accuracy of electrocardiogram interpretation, as well as prediction capabilities.
Nurea, a French start-up, specialises in designing and engineering software as a medical device. The company is working on accelerating the workflow of radiologists and surgeons by 60 per cent by standardising medical image interpretation.
UK-based Metalynx provides a software visualisation platform enabling subject matter experts to develop and evaluate computer vision applications without technical training.
Clinithink is a UK technology company built around CLiX, which is said to be the first healthcare AI capable of truly understanding unstructured medical notes.
Based in the Netherlands, KOSA AI is a software company that builds AI governance software tools to audit, explain and monitor bias and risks throughout the MR/AI life cycle of a product.
Over the next six months, the start-ups will be presented to a network of investors, potential business partners and customers, who could help take their companies to the next level. Subject to applicable regulatory authorisations, successful applications may also have the opportunity to be distributed through the GE Healthcare Marketplace after the culmination of relevant steps that include commercial distribution agreements.
Picture: Senior director digital ecosystem and Edison Accelerator programme leader Jan Beger welcomes the group of start-ups.
Published on page 6 of the November 2022 issue of RAD Magazine.