Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, Hospitals

10 startups from mHealth 2011: EnHatch

Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based health IT and medical device company, EnHatch, gives medical innovators, surgeons and physicians the tools to get their ideas to market as soon as possible. Its focuses on collaboration between surgeons and engineers in the development of medical devices. Its vice president of engineering, Michael Phipps, was previously a project engineer at Tornier and Stryker Orthopaedics.

More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a series of posts I’m publishing that includes elevator pitches from 10 of the companies I liked.

EnHatch

Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based health IT and medical device company, EnHatch, gives medical innovators, surgeons and physicians the tools to get their ideas to market as soon as possible. Its focuses on collaboration between surgeons and engineers in the development of medical devices. Its  vice president of engineering, Michael Phipps, was previously a project engineer at Tornier and Stryker Orthopaedics.

It has received funding from angel surgeon investors and was sponsored at the mHealth summit start-up pavilion by StartUp Health.

“We’re allowing surgeons and physicians to upload videos to make sure the engineers involved in the product understand all aspects of the development of it,” Phipps said.

Read about the other nine startups: Above Stress, HealthTap, Meddik, ScriptPad, Force Therapeutics, OrganizedWisdom, Ayogo, Beyond Lucid Technologies and CareSpeak Communications.

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