Twiage Wins AMA Innovation Challenge

​The American Medical Association selected Twiage as the winner of its Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge, a nationwide competition for physician-led medical technology innovations. Twiage, a smartphone app, allows emergency medical services personnel to send patient demographics, vital signs, ECGs, photos, and videos to hospital emergency departments in real-time. Twiage founder YiDing Yu, MD, said failures in communication lead to delays in emergency departments, which in turn result in $2.1 billion in excess costs to health systems each year. She said Twiage addresses a need to accelerate and streamline life-saving care by saving five to eight minutes per patient.The Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge in its inaugural year drew more than 100 submissions from physicians, residents, medical students, and hospitals. Submissions could be viewed online where stakeholders had the opportunity to review them and provide feedback. This forum for discussion generated close to 16,000 interactions. The top three winners were awarded $50,000, with Twiage receiving $25,000. Second place and $15,000 went to Light Line Catheter, a device that uses blue light to reduce catheter-associated infections, while Ceeable, a visual field test smartphone app, was awarded third place and $10,000. Learn more about Twiage at http://www.twiagemed.com.Published: 7/6/2016 11:18:00 AM
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