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The inaugural Health Pitch Battlefield took place at PitchLive on the 24th of October in the Business Design Centre in London, UK.
The pitching competition attracted an impressive number of international entries, with more than eleven countries and five continents represented. Finalists pitched their ideas to a panel of expert judges and the audience on the main stage. After an exciting and close juding session the winner of the Health Pitch Battlefield 2011 was announced by Richerd Stubbs, Programme Director for the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes at the NHS Institute for Innovation. See below description of this year's finalists.
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About
The Health Pitch Battlefield was seeking for medtech innovatorst all over the world. The best submissions were invited to pitch at our annual event in front of government representatives, investors, incubators and industry representatives.
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Problem
The Health Pitch Battlefield accepted innovative concepts that were aimed at the following problem definition:
“The solution should help to reduce avoidable attendance at hospitals / surgeries while maintaining or increasing the quality of delivered care.”
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Judging
Every entry was judged by numerous independent judges with varying backgrounds, such as government, academia or venture capital. The entry were evaluated with a rating system according and each question was weighed as stated on the entry form.
Judges did not only rate the ideas to determine the finalists (or winner), but they also provided feedback to each submitted concept.
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Prize
Each of the selected finalists was given a pitching slot at the innovation market place PitchLive London. Here they presented their idea to international investors, angels, incubators and representatives from governments as well as industry. Furthermore OmniCompete provided 1 stand for each finalists at the innovation expo and 2 free tickets to the event.
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Finalists
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Health Pitch Battlefield Winner |
http://www.reavillmed.com/ |
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ReavillMED, based in the U.S., developed a simple way to catheterize the heart without the need for creating a sterile field. By moving the catheter insertion from the neck to the arm insertion risks can be drastically reduced to an absolute minimum.
This innovative product replaces a commonly avoided, time consuming (20 minute) and complex wire guided surgical procedure (central line placements) with a simple (20 second) infusion that accomplishes the same thing. |
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Health Pitch Battlefield Finalist |
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CARLOS C. EHRICH MEDICAL RESEARCH, based in Brazil, developed an innovative device called iMach that is designed as a point-of-need blood compatibility test to turn blood compatibility into a simple bedside testing routine. This device reduces costs, risks, labor, errors and most important it saves time, patients sometimes do not have in an emergency situation.
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Health Pitch Battlefield Finalist |
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Francis Lamont Innovations Ltd, based in the U.K., has done some pioneering work in significantly reducing length of stay for hip joint replacement patients by extensive use of the Direct Anterior Approach. As a result of their experience with this technique, and limitations in the currently available equipment they have created a 'ground-up' design to satisfy all of the requirements specified to assist surgeons in carrying out hip joint replacement (and revision) by the Direct Anterior Approach. In over 400 cases they have achieved an average length of stay of 2.2 days with 30% going home within 24 hours.
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Health Pitch Battlefield Finalist |
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Renfrew Group, based in the U.K, developed a temporary side room to prevent healthcare associated infections. This unit provides handwashing, soap and hot water. A Waterless ‘Safeseal’ Toilet, with bagging mechanism and negative pressure filtered air reduces spread by air and offers greater dignity for patients.
The core requirement for the units is in hospitals, but other potential applications such as those in military and disaster relief field hospitals have also been cited.
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