drchrono raises $2.8 million, which is on top of the $1.3 million or so it raised last summer. With a certified EMR, practice management system, and patient-facing registration iPad app (OnPatient), drchrono will be looking to scale sales and likely start integrating value-add apps, ideally creating a clinical ecosystem around its primary mobile offerings. The article says drchrono has 15,000 registered providers, a number that I’m guessing is higher than the total number of active users but still very good.

Glooko raises $3.5 million to grow its glucose tracking and connectivity hardware. Glooko offers a mobile (iOS-only for now) glucose logbook in combination with a $40 cable that automatically loads results from major glucometers. This is a different approach than the connected glucometers like Telcare. 

In related news, PositiveID certifies its iglucose system on AT&T’s network. iglucose takes readings from standard glucometers, much like Glooko, but instead of a cable it sends them wirelessly to PositiveID for cloud-based storage, analysis, and distribution. It’s similar to MedApps in that way. It’s great to see the competition heat up.

MacPractice, the Apple-based EMR vendor, is testing a new iPad patient registration app called Clipboard. For an Apple platform developer, the company isn’t terribly creative about names.

Clinical communications company EXTENSION hires Tom Berger, RN, BSN, MS as chief nursing officer. Hiring a CNO seems like a positive step and an indication of growth for EXTENSION.

The VA is working with vendors DSHI and Document Storage Systems (DSS) to build an ED triage tablet app called ER Mobile. DSS will provide two-way connectivity to VA HIS systems and DSHI will build the app and algorithms to streamline triage decisions. DSHI has been working with the VA by providing a triage nurse call center, so presumably the mobile app will become a scalable, mobile version of the call center.

A new Aetna program is testing the effectiveness of having dentists use iPads as a platform for a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for providing tailored smoking cessation advice to patients. According to one of the coordinators, "We anticipate that devices like the iPad can be used to break down barriers between clinicians and their patients.” Maybe I’m a little old fashioned, but couldn’t they cheaply test this by having dentists ask patients about smoking and then direct them to additional resources if interested, before buying tablets? Or maybe just make an app to reach the 3/4 of dentists (probably higher in NY) who have smart phones? I’m hoping these cheaper alternatives have already been done and the iPad is just the next stage.

Here are 20 examples of social media strategies used by health systems. Not surprisingly, all but one of the systems are household names for those in healthcare. The article highlights lots of different examples of how to use social media and some of the channels — mostly Twitter and Facebook — that are being used.

Know some students that want to try to build a health app? Check out the Second Annual Go Viral to Improve Health Challenge. Teams must use data from the HHS Health Indicators Warehouse to address a health problem in their collegiate community.

Palomar Pomerado Health (CA) is building an almost-finished mobile app for EMR access. The app was developed in house with Cerner’s help in accessing the records. I’m curious how this works for Palomar physicians, but also how portable it is to other Cerner sites.

The ONC launches a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project to develop guidelines and best practices for securing mobile health apps and services.

More mobile app challenges from the ONC have also been announced, and these don’t require you to be a student to compete. The ONC is looking for apps that will help patients with disabilities access medical records and apps to help with post-discharge care coordination.

In an effort to foster collaboration across organizations and sectors, the mHealth Alliance announces a new membership program. I imagine this is an attempt to virtually bring together the various groups that attend the mHealth Summit, ideally making collaboration ongoing. Membership is free.

Kony signs to be the mobile platform for Intermountain Health, the most geographically desirable health system out there. That’s a big sale for Kony, as Intermountain is a good-sized system and also well respected in terms of health IT.

AirStrip signs a deal with Sunrise Health System (NV) to offer AirStrip Cardiology to providers affiliated with Sunrise’s four facilities. Now cardiologists can monitor patients from the casino floors.

Microsoft plans to launch a Windows 8 tablet later this year. This article lays out why it is likely to late to catch or even really affect iPad sales. The key point is that the iPad defines tablets, so beating it will take a significantly better product and marketing, a combination that will be impossible to muster.

This is BlackBerry’s last chance for a comeback with its new CEO. The article highlights several great historical examples of massively successful companies, like RIM, that were overtaken. Two of the examples — Palm and Sony, specifically in the area of portable music players — were overtaken by Apple.

Travis Good is an MD/MBA involved with health IT startups. More about me.

If you’re interested the potential of mobile from the pharmaceutical industry perspective, sign up for a free webinar I’m co-presenting next week with Aaron Kaufman, general manager for Kony Healthcare and Life Sciences.

Apple releases incredible quarterly sales numbers. Putting itself in the normally exclusive domain of oil companies, Apple made $13 billion in profit on $46 billion in revenue last quarter. The math comes out to 378,000 iPhones and 157,000 iPads sold every day, respectively. Apparently Apple is now worth more than Greece.

Wireless glucose monitor company Telcare signs a partnership agreement with health plan management company MagnaCare. It’s not totally clear in the release, but I’m guessing that MagnaCare will offer this as an additional service to its clients, taking a piece of the transaction. What was interesting was the quote from MagnaCare that talked about the how Telcare’s product enables patients to connect with loved ones, not providers. In many ways, it’s a better group to lean on than providers, especially in the short term.

Fitbit, which announced a partnership with UnitedHealth last week and unveiled its new wireless scale at CES, closes a Series C funding round worth $12 million. I imagine with this funding, Fitbit will be looking to scale sales both direct to consumers as well as through partnerships like the one with United. I’d also expect to see more testing of Fitbit as a part of an employer wellness program. I think we’ll also see a lot more gamification of the activity tracking that Fitbit does, which would tie well to partnerships with both payers and employers.

Kaiser releases an Android app and mobile-optimized site for patients. The app and site provide access to medical records, messages, location listings, test results, and appointment scheduling. It looks a lot like a mobile version of the web portal, which I guess it is, but it makes me wonder why it took so long to build for mobile. I would have used it when I was a Kaiser member. Now I can’t even get my crappy insurer to send my paper cards to the right address. I guess I’m insured, so I shouldn’t complain.

A new Pew Internet survey finds that tablet ownership in the US doubled from 10% to 19% from mid-December to mid-January. That trend definitely contributed to Apple’s monster numbers.

With Quantified Self and self-monitoring predicted to be a big trend in 2012, this is an interview with a guy struggling to get access to his heart rhythm data recorded by his implanted defibrillator. It brings up some interesting issues he encountered. It also ties nicely to the push to provide consumers access to all of their medical data. Personally, I say give patients the data they want — just don’t expect it to fix our health and lifestyle problems.

Sharecare announces it has raised $14 million and acquired physician directory The Little Blue Book. (TLBB). Sharecare is similar to HealthTap, which recently raised $11.5 million, in that it is a platform where healthcare consumers can go to ask questions of physicians. With the acquisition on TLBB, Sharecare will be trying to be the place consumers come not only to ask questions but also to find providers. It’s taking an interesting approach as it is planning a premium subscription model for providers, but will also be making money from real-time analytics sold to drug companies and other brands in health an wellness. Sharecare was co-founded by Dr. Oz of TV fame.

AT&T adds two new offerings that it hopes will help with mobile adoption in healthcare. The first, AT&T Managed Tablets, is a device management offering that apparently works on both enterprise-owned devices as well as employee-owned personal devices. The second, AT&T Global Smart Messaging Suite for Healthcare, is a partnership with Soprano that enables encrypted messaging from providers to patients, as long as both have the app from AT&T. The app apparently works on any smart phone on any network. It would be nice if it worked on non-smart phones.

This post is very Quantified Self (I’m not sure why I started capitalizing that) heavy, so I’m sorry, but here’s one more. The video above is for the new Nike+ FuelBand. It’s a wristband, much like the Jawbone UP, that tracks daily activities. Each activity is assigned a point value. The points are called NikeFuel and you have daily goals. The wristband’s lighted scale shows daily progress towards your goal and tells you things like steps taken and calories burned. It also syncs with iPhone and iPad apps (no Android until spring.)Retailing at $150 won’t help with competition priced at $99, but Nike does have a great fitness brand.

A new corporate survey (non-healthcare specific) finds that iOS devices are the most common platform connected to "corporate environments." 30% of devices were iOS, followed by BlackBerry and then Android. Android was considered by IT professionals to be the least-secure platform. I’m curious about specific data from hospitals and healthcare organizations.

A new study of women aged 50 years or older finds that fewer of them accessed health information posted online than reviewed identical print health information. The content was related to colon cancer and screening recommendations. I think the main conclusion to be drawn is that taking paper material and digitizing it into non-interactive material does not get you very far when it comes to health education and prevention.

An American Medical News story says payers are moving into the mobile health space to offer more health-related tools, not just mobile member cards. The examples given are Aetna (iTriage), UntitedHealth (CareSpeak, Fitbit, Lose it!), and WellPoint (Verizon).

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There were some great comments on the In-Car Health post from earlier this week.

From Heidi Pape Laird: "I could see interactive voice commands and responses where you ask for calming music, or a seated exercise suggestion or a meditation, but nothing too stressful, exciting or distracting."

From Chris Wasden: "I think the key is passive monitoring….The seat can weigh me, the steering wheel can gather some information such as pulse, temperature, chemical info. I think that there is something here, but not sure the business model."

From David Lester: "While I agree that this may appear to be overkill at present, I think it is important to begin to explore these different opportunities. The value of this will be realized when all of these recorded activities come together. Hopefully it will be an integrated solution based on the best available components."

I can see the value of the car as a place for monitoring, as long as it’s passive and non-intrusive, and especially if it is integrated with other data about the patient. I think that last point, about integration, will be the biggest challenge. We’ll have to see who can start pulling some of these disparate services together. I know we’ll see carriers like Verizon or Qualcomm fighting to do it, but there are also platform companies like Microsoft and HealthVault or an underdog like RunKeeper. In the back of my mind, I have a nagging feeling it’s going to be the payers that pull it off.

I appreciate Chris Wasden’s response to my post about FDA regulation: "I met with senior leadership of the FDA last week on this topic and was quite impressed by their attitude and approach. They will be providing some guidance in the future that makes things more clear, but in general their view is that they want to only regulate a small subset of the mhealth world. We got on the topic of algorithms and intelligence in apps and they said if all you are doing is making electronic a paper based system or tool that has already been vetted over time, then they don’t need to regulate that. If you are providing fairly low levels of intelligence in the app, that won’t require their review either." I’m hoping I can find the same people at the FDA to give me a pass for my app. Thanks, Chris.

It’s been an off couple of weeks for news with the holidays and the silence before CES. But with CES done, we are seeing a lot of announcements from vendors, mostly fitness related, but still interesting.

UnitedHealth announces partnerships with mobile health companies CareSpeak, Lose It!, and Fitbit. CareSpeak offers a health-specific, two-way SMS platform for patient communication and engagement. Lose It! is a nutritional app that helps user track intake and work towards weight goals. I used Lose It! a couple of years ago and had great results. I burned out after a couple months, but my snack intake has remained low despite not using the app anymore. Fitbit offers the snazzy pedometer for activity and sleep monitoring, associated mobile app for tracking nutrition, and most recently a connected scale. I consider this to be a pretty big deal for mobile health companies as long as it is more than just a PR play. I want to see how United rolls these out to members and if/how they tie them together and incentivize members, hopefully with financial savings.

ZocDoc made some superstar additions to its Advisory Board. Joining: former Senators Bill Frist, a Harvard-trained cardiac surgeon of HCA and end-of-life/Terry Schiavo fame, and Tom Daschle. ZocDoc continues to extend its impressive list of dignitaries. The story also states that ZocDoc is used by 800,000 people each month, but my bet is that this is probably total searches and not booked appointments. The number was 700,000 about 4-5 months ago, so I’m not sure if this is a good trend considering the amount of money and press ZocDoc is getting. The number of open slots available on the system has gone from 500,000 to 550,000.

Independa announces a partnership with LG to incorporate Independa’s Angela platform into LG TVs in long term care facilities. In a move to extend its reach as an elder care player, the new offering by Independa will enable those in long term care facilities to communicate with loved ones and caregivers, enter health-related information, and use Facebook or the web, all on a platform designed for the non-tech savvy senior and with all data incorporated into Independa’s CloudCare platform. The idea seems great to connect isolated seniors, as long as long term care facilities have LG Pro:Centric-enabled devices. I’ve heard of other companies working on similar smart TV integration for health services. One other thing, can we please make 2012 the year that people stop calling everything "game-changing?"

iHealth Lab announces its iHealth Smart Glucometer. It connects to the dock of Apple mobile devices and automatically sends readings to iHealth’s portal. The device is still awaiting FDA approval. The press release says the system uses industry standard test strips, but it would be sort of crazy to make a glucometer and not make money by selling your own test strips.

Fitbit, the maker of the popular connected pedometer, introduces its Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale. The scale, much like the Withings scale, tracks your weight, but instead of sharing it with third parties, it sends it up to the Fitbit portal, where users can now automatically track activity, sleep, and weight. The scale can recognize up to eight people, so it can be enjoyed by the whole family. Fitbit is becoming quite the force in the quantified self movement.

Not to be outdone, Withings announces its Smart Baby Scale. The scale does just what you’d expect — weighs your child and automatically shares the results with Facebook friends or remains private through the Withings smart phone app. I think parents are supposed to buy this to help them track their child’s weight and automatically plot it on a growth chart. I’m really struggling with this one. It seems incredibly dumb and a waste of money but maybe there are enough high-strung parents out there to sell a few of these. Who owns a regular baby scale, anyway? I’m much more excited about the Withings Smart Baby Monitor, but haven’t seen any news about that. By the way, the video above is priceless, as the guy demoing the scale manhandles the doll and then the app malfunctions and he says "it’s quite slow" and "it froze."

A new retrospective study in the Archives of Dermatology finds that live teledermatology consultations resulted in clinical improvement almost 70% of the time. I don’t have access to the full text, but based on the abstract, it looks like the telederm outcomes were only compared to the the outcomes without telederm, or from treatment by the referring physician. Am I missing something, or is this just to put some data behind the claim that telederm works as a viable treatment option?

I found this story on recent smart phone sales interesting. It’s pretty impressive how Apple is trending up and closing the gap on Android, with the biggest loser being RIM’s BlackBerry. According to the report, iPhones accounted for 37% of smart phone sales over the last three months.

Despite the chart above — which shows the poor performance of Windows Phone — this story highlights reasons to not write off Microsoft as a mobile platform vendor. The reasons: ease of app development, UI, global reach, and hardware. I think Microsoft is beaten like Apple was beaten in the mid-1990s and it’s going to take a very impressive turnaround to claim mobile territory. Maybe it can leverage its global reach with Nokia to win in emerging markets, but I think real growth in the US is not going to happen.

Healthcare mobile app store Happtique announces that it will be creating a certification program for mobile health apps for providers and patients. Developers will pay to submit apps to be certified. It is estimated that it will take six months to develop the certification program. This is an inevitable course for Happtique. What I’m most curious about is how transparent the certification criteria and process will be.

RunKeeper’s CEO talks about the head start his company has to be the platform for integration of personal health data. I personally think RunKeeper should focus on fitness, but since it just raised a large amount of capital, this is a guaranteed extension. The problem is that the two markets, fitness and health, are vastly different in terms of user motivations, effort to acquire users, and customer channels.

Physicians Interactive Holdings (PIH), a division of Skyscape, raises $17 million from Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund. PIH provides tools, many of them mobile, for physician education and reference. PIH also recently announced a mobile health advertising platform for vendors of mobile apps. It’s an interesting investment to me. I realize Skyscape generates revenue from pharma and so do many others, but now pharma owns part of the company that develops products to help clinicians with treatment decisions at the point of care. This seems like a huge conflict of interest. If medical schools are going to ban pharma companies from academic medical centers — something that’s been a trend in academic medicine that has severely limited lunch options on medical campuses –then medical schools should stop licensing products for faculty, residents, and students that are developed or owned by pharma.

The Lancet, which is the UK rival of JAMA and NEJM, releases an iPad app to provide subscribers access to articles on the go. It allows readers to annotate and share articles. This is an awesome way to stay current if you’re a Lancet subscriber.

Congrats to HIStalk Mobile sponsor Kony for being selected mobile platform vendor for Independence Blue Cross (IBC) of Pennsylvania. Kony has had a lot of success in the payer space and I think we’ll likely see more announcements like this in the coming months.

Nuance announces the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge. Nuance is looking for mobile and web developers to integrate speech into their apps. The winners get good press and free licenses for Nuance’s speech platform for 12 months.

This story claims the Telcare connected glucose monitor, which is a dedicated glucometer device with a wireless card in it, is going to officially launch this week. I was told by Telcare at the mHealth Summit that the device would be comparable in price to other glucometers, but users would have to buy Telcare test strips. Also in the news, Telcare reached the semifinals of the CES Last Gadget Standing Competition.

This was an interesting study assessing ICU nurse perceptions of tele-ICU. The most important findings were that 79% of nurses thought knowing the telemed physician was important and that 61% were more likely to contact the telemed physician if they knew them personally. That bias seems like it could impact care.

Harvard Business Review has an good story on why patients aren’t typical consumers. It comes down to what consumers/patients are able to process and what decisions we should expect of them, regardless of the amount of "big data" available to them. The example of a good application from the story is one from Mayo that helps maximize the value of a meeting between patient and provider. I think we’ll see more of this type of application in 2012.

Despite having a smaller market share of the total smart phone market in the US compared to Android, iPhones accounts for 25% of mobile web traffic while Android only accounts for ~15%. This intuitively makes sense, as the average iPhone user is a heavier mobile data user than the average Android user. The iPad, interestingly, has about the same amount of mobile traffic as the iPhone.

This is a story on passive monitoring and specifically Ginger.io, the Android-based service that monitors mobile phone use and activity to identify trends and habits. Ginger is conducting its first trial with Cincinnati Children’s and teens suffering from inflammatory bowel syndrome.

This amusing story was written by a medical student about startups selling products to physicians. I think all of the points are valid.

The above infographic depicts the similarities and differences between iOS and Android. It’s not a bad basic, high-level synopsis. The best is the quote at the end from Symantec: "Even though iOS and Android both have their weaknesses, the mobile platforms are still more secure than their PC counterparts." The real problem stems from the fact that more people are trying to bring their own Android or iOS devices to work than their own PCs.

Travis Good is an MD/MBA involved with HIT startups. More about.me.

During a keynote last week at the Digital Health Summit (part of CES in Las Vegas) Ford, Microsoft, Healthrageous, and BlueMetal Architects announced a new partnership to research digital health and wellness integration into Ford cars. The idea here is that connected health tools are supposed to interact with consumers and consumers are spending an increasing amount of time in their cars. That plus the personal nature of the car setting theoretically makes it a good place to conduct health services. So why not marry connected health tools and connected car technology?

Specifically, data will be collected from drivers, transmitted using BlueMetal and Ford SYNC technology to Microsoft HealthVault, then to Windows Azure, where Healthrageous will analyze the data and provide the user with personalized health advice before he or she gets out of the car. This is very early stage and part of a research effort. Also of note is that Ford has announced a similar partnership with WellDoc and Medtronic.

I’ve written before about how I don’t understand in-car health systems like this, but I’m floored that Ford keeps announcing partnerships with big name connected health companies to test these services out. Is this just about PR, or do any of these companies think that this stands a chance of being used? I’m going with PR. At least I hope so for the health companies.

Maybe I don’t get this because I don’t drive very much. I try to use public transport or bike or work from home as much as possible, so I don’t have a regular commute. But when I get in the car, I just want to have a few minutes to relax and listen to music or maybe a podcast. If I had RunKeeper asking me how many cups of water I drank today or what my blood pressure is, I think I’d burn out pretty quickly. If we’re looking to engage and motivate patients, I think we need to be careful to not follow them around everywhere they go, like Big Brother issuing health and wellness advice. Passive monitoring is great, but don’t remind people that you’re doing it everywhere they go.

If this wasn’t Healthrageous and maybe somebody like Fitbit being tested, I might see it making some sense. The Quantified Self people like to be monitored and would probably love to have a dialogue about themselves while in the car. For people with diabetes or other chronic, lifestyle-related conditions, this is just overkill.

If Ford was looking for a health-related service to integrate, the one that makes the most sense is ZocDoc. Since the in-car technology (Ford SYNC) is voice activated, why not enable a person to tell you the search criteria for a doctor, read them some options, and then enable them to book? Then e-mail or text them the info about the appointment before they get out of the car. That makes more sense to me. Or maybe enable instant access to nurse call services or even telepsych services like the new iCouch, so a driver can have somebody talk them down while they’re losing their patience in traffic.

What do you think? Do commuters out there see this being a valuable in-car service?

Travis Good is an MD/MBA involved with health IT startups. More about me.

In my post earlier this week on the new class of Rock Health startups, I mistakenly wrote the name of a mobile image viewing company as Nephrosity, instead of the correct name of Nephosity. I think I saw the name and assumed it had to be "nephros" for kidney, but one of the founders was kind enough to reach out and tell me that it is "nephos," which apparently is Greek for cloud. Thanks for the correction.

Over the last several weeks, I’ve covered the new startup classes for Rock Health and Healthbox, the health specific accelerators based in San Francisco and Chicago, respectively. Earlier this week, the New York-based health accelerator Blueprint Health announced its first class of startups.

Blueprint is a member of the TechStars Network, which has had success as a general technology accelerator. The three-month program started this week, providing  $20,000, free office space, legal, and other support. It takes 6% of each company. The Blueprint list of mentors is impressive, with lots of investors and diverse representation from payers, healthcare orgs, pharmacies, and even Allscripts and Cerner. I also like the size of the program at only nine companies instead of the 15 that are a part of Rock Health.

5 O’Clock Records. A nifty name for a company with a tagline of Work less. Make more. Go home early. The idea is that the company can streamline the process of requesting medical records through a HIPAA-compliant website. The company states that "at least 6 phone calls are made to the practice for each medical record request," which seems bit extreme to me. Whatever the number of calls, it’s true that requesting records can be a real nightmare — I’m experiencing it right now. This would work well if providers could get requestors to use the 5 O’Clock site. Also, the company seems, from the very limited info it provides, to be catering to indirect medical records requests, or those from people other than the patient themselves.

AHEAD Research. The company, founded by two fourth-year med students at Hopkins, has a platform called Symcat (http://symcat.com/), which is up and running to test but only intended for educational purposes. The tool takes symptomatic and other historical information and comes up with a list of possible diagnoses with probability attached to each. From there, you can get summaries from the NIH as well as studies related to the diagnosis. You can even find local providers that can treat the condition. It’s really impressive in speed and usability. I tested out "pain in testicle" and said I was a pediatric female, which the system didn’t seem to think was odd, and gonorrhea was the most likely diagnosis it found. I think the success of this is dependent on believing the premise of the company that, "At our core we believe that people given access to information the right way will make good decisions". I don’t agree with this, but I do see the value of Symcat for more acute conditions.

Aidin. This service hopes to streamline the discharge process and create a competitive marketplace for post-acute care providers. Discharge is a cluster of a process, so any streamlining would be great. Discharge itself has a lot of different kinds of bottlenecks so I don’t see this solving the entire problem of discharged patients waiting around all day to go home, but I think this could help discharge planners and coordinators and maybe even patients make more informed post-care decisions. I thought GetWellNetwork did something like this, but maybe it is more passive and not meant for discharge planners.

iCouch. I love the name and the concept. Users fill out a questionnaire and are then given a list of qualified counselors to choose from. Once chosen, they use Skype to do a remote counseling session. Counseling is perfect for telecare. I’m curious if patients will be able to either bundle services (buy bundles of sessions) or choose specific providers once they’ve forged a relationship.

InquisitHealth. This company offers a service that connects new patient with experience patients based on medical needs. It sounds like a good idea and something in which both new and old patients would want to participate. I’lll be curious to see how this works.

Meddik. It sounds a little like Google for health information. The company wants to provide intelligent, personalized health information to each user. User are able to rate content they find and in the process help refine their own search results, but also those of others as user ratings (up or down) affects the overall ranking of that data. I’m not sure if this is right, but it seems a bit like Zite + Google for health. And both docs and patients can use it. It’s a concept with a lot of potential, but I assume it will be dependent on heavy adoption.

Patient Communicator. This is a platform to improve communication between providers and patients. It allows patients to do things like schedule appointments or pay co-pays. What I’m confused about is if this is a full practice management system or a separate system. It might work well just to customize Kareo PM with the added patient-facing tools. The systems also does patient reminders.

Procured Health. There is very little information on this one except that it’s a great founding team and it is going to help hospitals with "medtech product evaluation and purchasing.”

Needl. Again, not much on this one either. It’s a platform to help hospitals connect to vendors. I read recently that it has a pilot going on in Minnesota.

What impressed me about the Blueprint class is most of the offerings are B2B and there are not any fitness-related companies. I’m curious to see how this class does compared to the classes at Rock and Healthbox. It won’t really take that long to find out, as all the accelerator programs are either three or five months long.

Travis Good is an MD/MBA involved with HIT startups. More about.me.