Ohio State Startups - Healthcare IT

A1 Control LLC

License fiscal year: 2018
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Eileen Faulds
College: Wexner Medical Center
Department: University Hospitals
Leadership: Carl Noble
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Lewis Center, OH
Description: Glucose monitoring and control systems, such as the “artificial pancreas,” are complex devices able to precisely and continuously control insulin levels. Despite their superior technology, the use of such devices by patients at home may be limited due to the difficulty in providing appropriate and effective training tools. A1 Control is developing an engaging, game-like computer application for patients who must use sophisticated glucose monitoring devices to treat diabetes mellitus. The application will assess the patient’s current level of knowledge, provide personalized education more quickly and cost-efficiently than current approaches, and provide feedback to therapy providers regarding patient performance – facilitating greater use of the state-of- the-art glucose monitoring technology.

Accentus Health Inc.

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Kenneth Yeager
College: Medicine
Department: Psychiatry
Leadership: Morgan Koth
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Accentus Health helps combat the perils of trauma on mental health through evidence-based approaches, delivered to the individual. The company offers mobile apps that provide education, self-support exercises, assessments and other resources to help first responders, physicians, nurses, addicts, clinicians and others cope with stress, trauma and emotional burnout. These services are built upon extensive research in trauma support conducted at Ohio State by Dr. Ken Yeager.

Ambassador Software Group Ltd.

License fiscal year: 2013
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Justin Pestrue; Luke MacAdam
College: Wexner Medical Center
Department: Shared Services
Leadership: Tim Newcome
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Ambassador provides patient-care planning software designed to anticipate patient needs and personalize a non-clinical care plan. The company’s software pulls real-time patient information from the hospital’s electronic medical records and uses predictive analytics to anticipate patient needs, enabling healthcare organizations to enhance their patient satisfaction scores.

Bedside Chats, LLC

License fiscal year: 2022
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Andrew Nashed
College: Wexner Medical Center
Department: Internal Medicine
Leadership: Andrew Nashed
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Brookline, MA
Description: Bedside Chats enables patients to have more productive and open conversations with their doctors and healthcare providers. Patients can explore and discover questions they might not have thought to ask or wanted to ask but might have forgotten. Bedside Chats is for anything from chronic conditions with a primary care provider to serious conditions with specialists and life-changing diagnoses.

DasiSimulations LLC

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Lakshmi Dasi
College: Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Leadership: Teri Sirset
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Currently, valve choices for trans catheter aortic and mitral valve replacement (TAVR) are driven by relationships, brand and price rather than objective measurement of which valve will have the best patient outcome. Dasi Simulations aims to take the guesswork out of valve choice by using technology for TAVR planning, called “Precision TAVI,” which uses a patient’s preoperative, computed tomography angiograms to pre-screen different TAV options with associated adverse outcomes using advanced predictive biomechanical modeling. The Dasi platform is built upon an extensive body of research conducted at Ohio State by former Professor Lakshmi Dasi.

Engage Health, Inc

License fiscal year: 2020
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Randi Foraker
College: Public Health
Department: Epidemiology
Leadership: Andrea Peabody
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Engage Health is developing a-HEART (Heart health Evaluation Algorithm in Real Time) to evaluate heart health in breast cancer survivors. a-HEART is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or tool, used primarily by a nurse practitioner that integrates real time information about heart health factors from a survivor’s electronic health record and visually displays the information on a mobile health screen or a healthcare provider’s computer screen. aHEART is a novel solution for this market segment to comprehensively assess heart health, having undergone feasibility, usability, accessibility and proof-of-concept testing with oncologists, primary care practitioners, advanced practice nurses and cancer survivor stakeholder groups. aHEART can increase early heart health intervention, leveraging telehealth tools, transcending time and geography. The aHEART intervention platform integrates with the EHR, using SMART on FHIR technology to improve monitoring and management by clinicians and to deliver precision interventions to survivors.

Health Care DataWorks Inc.

License fiscal year: 2009
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Jyoti Kamal
College: Medicine
Department: Biomedical Informatics
Leadership: Jason Buskirk
Ownership status: Acquired/merged
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Health Care DataWorks provides business intelligence solutions that enable healthcare organizations to improve quality of care and reduce costs. Through its KnowledgeEdge™ product suite, Health Care DataWorks delivers an enterprise data warehouse necessary for hospitals and health systems to effectively and efficiently gain deeper insights into their operations. The company was acquired by Health Catalyst in July 2015.

MassMatrix Inc.

License fiscal year: 2016
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Michael Freitas
College: Medicine
Department: Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
Leadership: Hall Johnson
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: MassMatrix delivers bioinformatic enterprise-class solutions for analyzing mass spectrometry-based protein data in the drug discovery process. Current approaches utilized by pharmaceutical companies are hindered by a lack of automation in the data analysis pipeline and cumbersome software tools that lack enterprise capabilities. MassMatrix combines advanced algorithms and a user-focused experience to help scientists gain accurate insights from biological data, resulting in fewer false discoveries, increased productivity and reduced costs.

MatchTx LLC

License fiscal year: 2016
Ohio State primary inventor(s): James Chen
College: Medicine
Department: Biomedical Informatics
Leadership: Jeff Spitzner
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: MatchTx provides a SaaS solution that helps researchers, oncologists and clinical trial managers identify the full set of biomarkers that collectively predict cancer patients’ treatment outcomes. Patent-pending algorithms classify millions of combinations of genomic and clinical data to find the full set of predictive biomarkers from reference data sets. The company’s Deep Genetic Signatures™ product creates a personalized match between a novel treatment and those patients most likely to respond positively. This makes clinical trials faster, cheaper and more effective.

Med-Compliance IQ Inc.

License fiscal year: 2017
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Metin Gurcan; Gayle Gordillo; Chandan Sen
College: Medicine
Department: Biomedical Informatics
Leadership: Gary Ross
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Med-Compliance IQ is a software company specializing in the application of image analytics and artificial intelligence for wound care. Current chronic wound treatment depends on medical professionals visually evaluating the color, depth, area and shape of the wound’s edges to document how the wound has changed from one medical examination to the next. This manual process is subjective, inaccurate and time-consuming. The company’s first product, WoundWiseIQ, is a patented imaging and analytics technology that can streamline and automatically document chronic wounds and their healing progress, leading to improved CMS compliance reporting for reimbursement to medical care providers and reduced healthcare costs.

Otologic Technologies, Inc.

License fiscal year: 2020
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Metin Gurcan
College: Medicine
Department: Biomedical Informatics
Leadership: Darrin S. McCall
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Otologic Technologies, Inc. is a healthcare software company developing an artificial intelligence clinical decision support system to assist in diagnosing ear diseases. The software platform accepts digital otoscope videos, converts them into a single high-resolution image, provides diagnostic analysis of multiple disease states and provides contextual images from similar diagnosed cases. Otologic Technologies will improve the diagnostic process through real-time clinical decision support, traceability and overread ability for frontline clinicians globally. Learn more about Otologic Technologies in this video.

TransChart LLC

License fiscal year: 2006
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Ronald Ferguson
College: Medicine
Department: Surgery
Leadership: Martha Collins
Ownership status: Acquired/merged
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: TransChart is an electronic medical record (EMR) system for managing transplant and advanced disease patients. Coupled with specialized services, the TransChart Core software facilitates improved management of the organ transplant process from referral through the post-transplant lifetime of care. The TransChart system can be integrated into existing EMR workflows, simplifies regulatory compliance and provides data analytics for optimized patient care. TransChart was acquired by CareDx in 2020.

WellVibe LLC

License fiscal year: 2012
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Ulysses Magalang
College: Medicine
Department: Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critial Care and Sleep Medicine
Leadership: Sue Feamster
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: WellVibe provides wellness assessment tools with the mission of keeping people healthy, preventing the onset of lifestyle-induced chronic disease and empowering individuals to manage their own health. The four tools are: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Decision tool, Metabolic Syndrome/Type II diabetes tool, Total Body Wellness tool and Cardiovascular Disease Decision tool.