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t m c » p u l s e | m a r c h 2 0 1 6 6 2016 TMCx Digital Health Class COMPANY DESCRIPTION Aprenda Systems provides organizations with rich, accurate and timely directory data through access to Signature, the world's first identity convergence platform. CareSet Systems builds physician networks. DocResponse is a software company focused on health care diagnostics for clinical decision support. ePreop's SurgicalValet software helps coordinate perioperative care while optimizing patient engagement, billing support, readmission prevention and everything in between. GreenLight Medical is a decision engine to promote cost- and quality-conscious purchases within hospitals for new medical technology review and approval. Moving Analytics helps hospitals implement home-based cardiac rehab programs delivered through patients' mobile devices. Qidza is a mobile platform that translates developmental science into fun health-screening activities throughout human development, starting with babies. Secure Healing helps hospitals comply with the auditing requirements of HIPAA and other regulations by automatically identifying inappropriate access of confidential information. Sense.ly is a virtual nurse platform that helps clinicians better manage and communicate with their patients. The Right Place provides hospitals and post-acute providers a more efficient and reliable way to match the right patient to the right place of care. Valera Health is enabling the future of behavioral health care through smart- phone-based support for behavioral wellness and care coordination. Xpress puts providers and patients in charge of health care, giving them real-time access to unbiased pharmaceutical resources and information. From January through June 2016, the 12 companies will focus on digital health. From August through December 2016, a third class of companies— yet to be selected—will focus on medical devices. "By all measures, the first class was an incredible success," said Halvorsen, referring to last year's inaugural cohort of 21 companies that solidified the accelerator's status as a beacon for life science entrepreneurship. "But at the same time, there was also some learning that took place along the way. One of those observations was that by focusing the class around particular areas, we could create more synergy for the companies here. "By putting the focus on digital health, we're hoping to enable fortu- itous collisions between the compa- nies that lead to collaborations and increased acceleration," he continued. "Even in the first four days, the compa- nies are already actively collaborating and looking for ways to help each other. It's really exciting to watch." Thanks to the programmatic overhaul and a tightly woven curric- ulum, class two is hurtling along and showing little sign of slowing down. Between a barrage of informational sessions, detailed tours to provide an inside look at medical center institu- tions, and events intended to ignite conversation between the entrepre- neurs, advisors and hospital stakehold- ers, the new arrivals barely had time to catch their breath. "It was really great to visit the actual hospitals throughout the medical center," said Adam Odessky, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sense.ly, a virtual nurse platform that enables clinicians to better manage and communicate with their patients. "Just understanding how their administration interfaces with treatment, how the different depart- ments flow, and understanding how the procurement and IT processes THE COMPANIES HAIL FROM THROUGHOUT TEXAS— FIVE FROM RIGHT HERE IN HOUSTON—AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING TEAMS FROM CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK AND NEW MEXICO.