UCSF Health Hub Announces Winners of the Digital Health Awards
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Over 250 expert judges selected winners from across 15 categories. Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, Associate Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures, presented the winner in the Consumer Prevention category: Dexcom. Finalists in this category included Carrot, Surgical Theatre, and Podimetrics.
September 24, 2020 -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- UC San Francisco’s Health Hub, an innovation hub and startup studio supporting the next wave of digital health entrepreneurs, announces the winners in the UCSF Digital Health Awards. This unique awards event celebrated the achievements of innovative companies dramatically improving healthcare with technology.
The winners were selected from more than 750 submissions across 15 categories by an unmatched team of 250 expert judges from the health care and VC industry. In the first round of judging, the priority was on market validation and traction; in the second, innovation and differentiation; in the third, overall patient impact.
Winners were announced and honored at a virtual ceremony on the UCSF Mission Bay campus on September 23, at 6:00 pm PT where finalists from across the world joined in through Zoom. The full video stream of the event is here.
The awards this year also honored innovative digital health companies who stepped up to the many challenges that the pandemic presented — misinformation, the danger of in-person doctor’s appointments, slow testing, and even slower results, and safely returning to work — among many others.
“We’re honored to shine a spotlight on the early stage companies and their founders making the brave steps making access to care affordable and practical,” said Mark H. Goldstein, Chairman of the UCSF Health Hub and General Partner at venture capital firm Builders VC. “Our winners represent the best of the best and we’re excited to now help them open new providers' doors.”
Winners of the 2020 UCSF Digital Health Awards are:
New Application of AI: Viz.ai
New EHR Advance: Human API
Remote Diagnostics: Conversa Health
Hospital Diagnostics: Eko Health
Telehealth: GoodRx
Mental & Behavioral Health: Ginger
Consumer Wellness: Oura
Consumer Prevention: Dexcom
Employer Wellness & Prevention: Grand Rounds
Patient Cost Savings: Advocatia
COVID Patriot - Best Diagnostic Testing: Mammoth Biosciences
COVID Patriot - Best Patient Engagement: ConsejoSano
COVID Patriot - Best Delivery & Decision Support: Carbon Health
Best Technology with UCSF DNA: Akili
UCSF Digital Health Hall of Fame: Doug Hirsch, Trevor Bezdek, Ranjeev Singh, and Roy Shoenberg
About UCSF Health Hub
UCSF Health Hub is a 501c3 non-profit supported and funded by Silicon Valley’s top health-related venture capital firms in a unique affiliation with UCSF. UCSF Health Hub connects ideas and companies with the people, expertise, and capital to scale breakthrough healthcare solutions and produces monthly on-campus events operates an company-to mentor-to clinician online matching system called Health Hub Connect and produces the UCSF Digital Health Awards show. Visit us at https://www.healthhubsf.org/ and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.