Tunstall Healthcare has acquired BeWo Unternehmensgruppe (BeWo), a German call center services, social alarm, and device technology and management company, effective 1 March. Terms and management transitions were not disclosed. The BeWo operation, which had previously worked with Tunstall in Germany, will initially be using its call center operations combined with Tunstall Cognitive Care, which uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in combination with technology in the home to monitor changes in condition that could be predictive of changes in health. Their information also indicates expansion into social care applications in hospitals and care homes. InsiderMedia, IoTNow, Yorkshire Post
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named its 12 finalists in its first-ever UK healthtech accelerator.
- Dr Julian, a telemental health platform
- C the Signs, AI for early identification of cancer
- Infinity Health, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) task management tool for planning and coordinating care
- Dignio, which connects patients and professionals through a digital platform
- Sapien Health, a digital clinic to help patients prepare for surgery through sustainable lifestyle changes
- WYSA for stress management through AI
- DDM Health using digital therapeutics to improve patient health outcomes
- PEP Health, which uses AI to help patients share their thoughts in real time
- Remedy Rx, capturing around 95% of the data that sits outside the healthcare system to link doctors and patients
- Birdie, a tech platform for home care providers
- Abtrace, which uses data to detect, monitor, and treat long-term disease
- Thymia, which analyses speech, video, and behavioral data gathered via video games to assess patients’ mental health conditions
The four-week accelerator programs will help the startups in business models, regulatory pathways, clinical validation, electronic health record integration, specialized AWS training and promotional credits, mentoring from healthcare domain and technical subject matter experts, business development, go-to-market guidance, and investment guidance. The group was selected in partnership with govtech accelerator Public, from a pool of over 100 applicants. ComputerWeekly
The interestingly named Fidgetbum is on the face of it, off our normal healthtech beat. It’s meant to help transition young children from crib to bed and sleep through most of the night through a stretchy wrap-around device that snugly holds the covers in place without restricting the child. The sensory effect is being hugged, without the heaviness and heat generation of a weighted blanket, and has been used successfully with children who have sensory needs, such as autism and epilepsy, or simply feel insecure. Founder Melanie Wood was recently granted a US design patent, which will open up the US market for the company. It’s perhaps this Editor’s recent sleeplessness, but this sounds like a natural cross-promotion with Owlet’s new Dream Sock Plus that fits up to 5 years [TTA 16 Feb]. THIIS
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