New York, NY – January 24, 2017 Today, at the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) demo day, six growth-stage health tech companies presented their cutting-edge health care solutions to an audience of health care providers, insurance companies and investors. The event marks the culmination of the five month program run by the Partnership Fund for New York City (Partnership Fund) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), which bolsters New York's growing health tech sector and encourages the development of innovative digital health tools. This year's winners included: BMIQ, Diameter Health, eCaring, Healthify, Somatix, and Spring.

During the course of the program, the six companies worked with health care organizations to test and refine their products, while learning directly from their potential future customers on how best to improve their tools for delivering the highest quality of care to patients. Since its inception, the NYDHA has focused on incubating the technologies that will have the most impact on the industry, and was early to recognize the importance of connecting technology to providers who could offer appropriate scale. Companies are nominated and selected by health care providers and insurance companies to enter the program, and represent specific areas within the industry where there is an appetite for innovation. Now in its fourth year, the accelerator's success is tied to the unique opportunity for participants to obtain direct access to major customers, including large hospital systems and insurance companies, and receive feedback from senior-level executives representing the leading health care providers in New York State.

"New York's high concentration of health care providers makes it an ideal location to cultivate new health technology, especially as we see the aim of digital health products shift away from consumers and towards providers. The NYDHA is able to leverage willing mentors who provide insights on how new technology will actually be used day-to-day and are eager to help participants get their technology into the leading health care providers and insurance companies in the city," said Maria Gotsch, President and CEO of the Partnership Fund. "By giving entrepreneurs the tools they need to scale their businesses, the companies flourish, recruit new talent, and expand their operations, resulting in the program becoming an incredible conduit for job creation in New York City."

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