DigitalHealth.London has revealed seven health tech SMEs joining its three-month programme, known as the DigitalHealth.London Launchpad.
The programme will initially support companies launch new products or processes into the NHS. It provides companies with access to knowledge sharing events to help understand demand and how to bring the product or process to market. It includes workshops, 1:1 and partner advice and small events.
The successful companies include:
- Alva Health Ltd – Alva’s digital health platform is aimed at women during menopause, giving them access to a personalised care plan to relieve their menopause symptoms and reduce long term chronic health risks, using both physical (HRT) and digital (CBT) therapeutics.
- IOWNA – a digital healthcare platform provides integrated personalised health and wellness plans to improve care for patients, particularly those with chronic diseases. Patients have access to UK based consultants and Allied Health Professionals.
- Lisn – a digital staff engagement platform that uses machine learning to collate and analyse staff comments to generate detailed feedback and actionable insights. They are creating a Covid-19 specific report tool that will allow staff to instantly report their experience of working during the current pandemic.
- NuKi Health – a telehealth platform that provides families with quick and affordable paediatric dietetic advice. Parents can get guidance through a combination of video calls with a registered dietitian and chat-based coaching by a dietetic coach. NuKi aims to support parents with food allergies, weaning, food refusal issues and weight management.
- Pungo acting as Joy. Joy is a social-prescribing platform that enables stakeholders across health and social care to make community referrals and track their updates.
- RTW Plus – is working to deliver RESTORE, a behavioural medicine programme combining personalised 24/7 support with 8-week evidence-based education and coaching. Patients can access it through the web or an app which also syncs with their wearable devices. It provides patients with a clear pathway to regaining control of their life through cost-effective care.
- The Ticket Bank – uses event tickets to improve mental health and reduce loneliness by turning empty seats into life-changing experiences. The Ticket Bank platform uses a closed marketplace system to distribute spare and unsold tickets via a network of verified charity partners and NHS Link Workers.
Dr Millicent Stone, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at iOWNA Health said: “As a start-up there is so much to learn about navigating the NHS procurement process and we wanted to set off on the right foot.”
“As a Consultant at Guys and St Thomas’ our leadership values the role digital solutions have in enabling transformation and change in patient pathways and as a company we wanted to access that knowledge base for iOWNA. Through the program we hope to achieve a greater understanding of how to pitch to the NHS, to learn how to integrate our iOWNA clinician app with NICE guidance and to have the best chance of success as we launch our iOWNA clinician app. We are really looking forward to the next three months!“
Patrick Harding, Founder and CEO of Joy, said: “The Launchpad programme has come at the perfect time to fast-track our growth, supporting us to scale our data-led social prescribing platforms across the NHS. This is a major step in our mission to add ten happy years to life expectancy and we’re excited to be working with the DigitalHealth.London team.”
Anna King, Commercial Director of Health Innovation Network, a founding partner of DigitalHealth.London said: “We are very excited to announce the latest cohort of Launchpad companies. These early stage SMEs are selected because they have high potential to meet the needs of the NHS and social care sector. We hope they will benefit from that extra support and advice in getting their products ready to launch to this complex and often daunting market. We look forward to working with them over the next three months.”
