May 2015

Boston: An Emerging Healthcare

AI Hotbed

July 2018

Source : DRAUP

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Boston has a rich digital healthcare ecosystem consisting of Universities, Medical OEMs and pharma giants, Tech Giants and Start-ups

Software Companies

Hub

Abundance of

Healthcare Talent

Healthcare Start-ups

Ecosystem

G500

Medical OEMs & Pharma Giants

450+Digital Healthcare Start-

ups

USD0.9BN

Funding in 2017

Second highest after Bay

Area for Healthcare

Boston

200K-220KHealth tech ER&D Talent

pool

DRAUP analyzed hundreds of Healthcare and Software companies' ER&D talent and spend. Using its proprietary start-up database, DRAUP also curated insights from Boston start ups

G500 companies refer to Largest 500 Global Companies, a list published annually by Fortune Magazine.Note: Source : DRAUP

Boston is a Digital Healthcare Hub

39G500 Medical Devices

OEMs & Pharma giants

58Global Medical G500

Companies R&D centers

in Boston

38G500 Software Companies’

Presence

41G500 Software ER&D Centers

SOMERVILLE

BOSTON

BRAINTREE

CAMBRIDGE

QUINCY

LIFE SCIENCES CORRIDOR

90K-100KComputer Software and IT

Services ER&D Talent

pool

Source : DRAUP

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Active network of hospitals providers, global Universities and healthcare giants have attracted Tech giants and digital start-up ecosystem

20th Century 2000 - 2015 2015 and beyond

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000 2005 2010 2014YOE

2015 2016 2017

Medical OEMs

Universities

Hospitals &

Pharma

Start-Ups

Tech Giants &

• The 21st century saw

companies setting up off-shore

centers in Boston to leverage

the developing healthcare

ecosystem

• CVS, Merck and Medtronic

established centres largely to

access to large hospital market

• Boston became a global hub for the intersection of healthcare and technology

with rising number of healthcare start-ups coupled with increasing investment in

healthcare by the tech giants from Silicon Valley.

• Companies like IBM and Alphabet are utilizing technologies like AI, IoT and Big

Data to develop advanced healthcare solutions.

• HQ of large medical OEMs such as

Boston Scientific and ThermoFisher

• 30+ global hospital such as MGH, BWH

and Sarpepta.

• Globally renounced universities such as

Harvard and MIT provide robust academic

research centres.

Access to large

Healthcare MarketBorn In Boston Rapidly maturing Digital

Healthcare Ecosystem

Source: The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Includes current leadership announcement, partnership and R&D initiatives from Boston based companies updated as of Jul, 2018

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Tech giants and start-ups are disrupting healthcare value chain to innovate new value segments within deep-domain modalities

Digital Platforms & Applications

Universities

Pharma Giants

Tech Giants & Start-Ups

Clinical IT Solution Vendors

Traditional IT S/W Vendors

Intelligent

DiagnosticsHealthcare

AnalyticsPatient

Analytics

Preventive

Healthcare

Non-Clinical IT Layer

ERP CRMHealthcare

Cloud

SCM

Equipment & Patient

Tracking

PACS

Remote

Monitoring

Clinical IT Layer

Healthcare

Information

Management

Clinical

Decision

Support

Medication

Management

System

Detection and Care

Domain

Agnostic

Modalities

Imaging Non-Imaging

Diagnostics Prosthetics

Surgical

Robots

Drug

Discovery

Broad Research Fields & Chronic Disease Care

Oncology Neurology Cell& Gene Therapy Haematology

Genomics Therapeutics Orthopaedics

Precision

Medicine

Aging

Medical Devices OEMs

Health-tech

Domain

Modalities

EHR & Data

Transformation

Radiology

Information

Systems

Digital-

Health Stack

Tech

Giants &

Start-ups

Traditional

IT S/W

Vendors

Clinical

IT

Vendors

Medical

OEMs &

Pharma

Source: The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

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Tech Giants and Medical OEMs are collaborating with start-up and university talents to shape Boston healthcare ecosystem

Large talent Pool : Global Universities

Tech Hub: 4 Tech GiantsFocused on Health-tech

Domain Experts: Medical OEMs & Pharma

giants

Government Initiatives

Digital Health Players: Start-ups

Boston is home to 7 world renowned institutions like

Harvard, MIT, Boston University and UMass which is a channel not only for research on Digital Health but also is a huge talent

pool for AI

IBM, Microsoft, Google and Samsung are working avidly across various

healthcare segments via partnerships, with universities and G500 companies.

19 of the top 30 global Medical Devices companies have centers in

Boston. The G500 are still in the experimental phase when it come to

AI in healthcare

The government in Boston is taking drastic measures to develop a

healthcare ecosystem. Recentlygovernment invested $250,000 in two digital health innovation labs

The VC Ecosystem in Boston has recently shifted their focus to

Digital Healthcare start-ups and are investing heavily in AI. The area

witnessed funding of around $996 Mn across 33 deals in 2016 and

around $650 million across 29 deals in 2017, making it the second most preferred area for investments in

Digital Health space in the US.

“Lack of R&D Facilities to treat

Chronic Diseases”

“A need for healthcare solutions

due to ageing population”

“Leniency in FDA Approvals

resulting in data accessibility”

Dr. Steven MunevarPresident & CEO,

Munevar & Associates, Inc.

David UreCEO & President, Inanovate

Rhoda AuDirector of Neuropsychology,

Framingham Heart Study

Source: The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Includes domain specific insights collected from primary interviews conducted with several industry leaders.

Healthcare

Ecosystem

Source : DRAUP

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Focus segments and use-cases of key players across the Digital healthcare stack

Robotic

Surgical

Devices

Imaging

Solutions

Remote

Monitoring

Drug

Discovery

Data

Collection

& Analysis

Data

Transformation

Predictive

Analytics

Cell & Gene

Therapy

Cancer

DiagnosticsNeurology

Diabetes

care

Rebuilding traditional Segments Accelerating Chronic Diseases CareOff the shelf Platform Partners

Devices

OEMs

Tech Giants

Start-ups

Universities/

Innovation

Lab

Boston: Healthcare use-cases and focus segments across Ecosystem players

Pharma

Giants

Source: Draup identified 11 key areas categorised under 3 broader segments based on recent research, investment and collaboration activities by top Healthcare companies in Boston.

The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Healthcare

Ecosystem

Source : DRAUP

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Scaled R&D footprint in Boston in traditional healthcare capabilities

1700

1500

1100

850

735

630

620

610

490

465

450

450

440

430

390

380

330

325

300

300

Engineering footprint of top Medical Devices and Pharma Giants in Boston ( E-R&D headcount )

➢ Biogen focuses on Neurology, Early

Clinical Development, Clinical Data

Management, Haematology, Cell & Gene

Therapy

➢ Boston Scientific R&D centre focuses

on Urology and Pelvic Health,

Endoscopy, Electrophysiology. Other

focus areas include Bioinformatics,

Neurodegeneration, Neurology

Discovery and Development

➢ Pfizer R&D platform includes

Biosimilars, Gene Therapy, Precision

Medicine, and focuses on Diseases &

Conditions, Rare Disease Treatment.

➢ Sanofi Genzyme focuses on developing

specialty treatments for debilitating

diseases that are often difficult to

diagnose and treat. It also focuses on AI

for therapeutic solutions

➢ Medtronic focuses on Surgical

Technologies, Navigation, Patient

Monitoring & Recovery.

Healthcare ER&D

headcount

~12,500KEngineers

DRAUP analyzed top 70 global healthcare companies for their research and investment focus areas.

DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse Healthcare Engineering Talent numbers.Note: Source : DRAUP

Sanofi

Pfizer

Biogen

Shire

Novartis

Boston Scientific

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Royal Philips NV

Merck

Medtronic

Perkin Elmer

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Takeda

Waters Corporation

Amgen

Charles River Laboratories

AstraZeneca

DraegerWerk

Siemens

Devices &

Pharma

giants

Source : DRAUP

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EHR ImagingPredictive Analytics

TherapeuticsRemote

MonitoringWearables

Acquisition Investment Partnership Inhouse

Exploring and accelerating digital use-cases for EHR, predictive analytics and Therapeutics

Note: Draup identified 6 major areas of investments, acquisitions, Partnerships and Inhouse research in Healthcare Technology adoption.

The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018

Tech Giants

➢ Tech Mafia giants are differentiating

by building in-house capabilities in

AI, Big Data , deep learning and

machine learning

➢ Alphabet, Microsoft and Apple are

developing competencies in EHR,

remote monitoring and connected

cloud technologies through

collaborations with medical giants

and startups

➢ Alphabet has invested in multiple

therapeutics startups such as

Spero, and Magenta

➢ Apple is investing aggressively in

Apple’s Health Records feature. It

has partnered with partners

healthcare to enable Hospital staff

patients and vendors to remotely

access healthcare data through its

IOS devices

Source : DRAUP

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Using mature computational capabilities, ML algorithms and off the shelf platforms to mitigate Data Transformation and Analysis challenges

Technology Giants are focused on

Data

Transforma

tion

Remote

Monitoring

Electronic

Health

Records

Cloud

Platforms

Open

source ML

Protocols

Medical

Imaging

Chronic

Disease

Managem

ent

Assistive

Diagnosis

Predictive

Analytics

Tech Giant Focus

AI

ad

op

tio

n M

atu

rity

High

High

Low

Data Transformation

. “The major road block being availability of huge trained data to feed into

machine learning algorithms. Tech giants can play a huge role at this layer of

data transformation.”

- Steven Munevar

Recently launched Cloud Healthcare API services to

address the interoperability issue in healthcare data. Verily focussed on developing data science tools for gene

sequencing

Remote Monitoring

“They are trying to become future pioneers in patient monitoring and

remote device monitoring. They are constantly working on innovating

wearable devices which can easily and efficiently collect patient data.”

- David Ure

Medical Imaging

Major healthcare use

cases being solved by

Tech Giants

IBM Watson Health has partnered with Pfizer to develop

remote monitoring solutions for Parkinson’s disease

They are disrupting the Imaging Machines market by

introducing fast and portable CT and Digital Radiology devices.

Tech Giants

AI Maturity indicates the depth of AI involvement and integration capabilities into the mentioned/identified medical technological areas.

Tech Giants Focus represents the stance in the research, development and adoption of the mentioned/identified healthcare technological area. High Tech Giant Focus indicates large number of

investments, research collaborations, R&D hiring and centre development specific to Greater Boston Area.

Note:

Source : DRAUP

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OEMs are partnering with Tech giants to build digital healthcare solutions and collaborating with Hospitals & pharma giants to acquire core expertise

Tech Giants Pharmaceuticals Hospitals / Research Institutions

Partnership focused on

developing remote

monitoring solutions like

Telemonitoring for their

patients.

With Boston Children’s

Hospital, GE Healthcare

is developing digital tools

to help radiologists of

varying expertise interpret

brain MRI scans

Partnering with Tech Giants to

leverage Off-the shelf platforms

Collaborating with pharmacies and Hospitals to innovate

traditional segments

Medical OEMs are leveraging cross-industry partnerships to acquire digital capabilities

Medtronic will use IBM’s

cognitive computing

capabilities to develop

new diabetes diagnostics

solutions

Medtronic and Samsung

Co-developed “MiniMed

Connect” app to

measure, track and share

critical diabetes data

such as glucose levels

Collaboration to develop

epigenetic modulators

that can treat neurological

disorders such as

Alzheimer’s

Collaborations

The collaboration aims to

develop a new handheld

blood test tool to improve

the care of patients with

neuropsychiatric

disorders.

Source: The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Includes current leadership announcement, partnership and R&D initiatives from Boston based companies updated as of Jul, 2018

Source : DRAUP

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Top pharmaceuticals are acquiring ML capabilities through open innovation labs in collaboration with tech giants and startups

Pharmaceutical companies are partnering to acquire AI capabilitiesInnovation labs by pharmaceutical companies

Top pharmaceutical companies have established

innovation labs to tap into innovative healthcare

technologies

Bayer Innovation Centre:

Focus on developing partnerships in the field

of cancer treatment, cardio vascular diseases

and ophthalmic therapies

CVS Innovation Lab

Focus on developing smart device-driven apps

and devices to improve health care.

Focus on tapping early-stage opportunities

across businesses, academia and J&J family of

companies

Johnsons & Johnson Innovation

Centre:

Key focus areas

Mobile Coaching Cancer Therapy Drug discovery

Advise patients and

improve patient

outcomes using real-

time data collection

Analyze patient data to

identify personalized

treatment options using

a cloud-based system

Identify drug molecules

for treatment after

analyzing clinical data

J&J has collaborated with

Watson to enhance its

virtual patient coaching

platform – Patient Athlete

Program platform for

coaching individuals

undergoing replacement

and spine surgeries

Roche will use GNS

Healthcare’s machine

learning platform to to

identify novel targets for

cancer therapy

AstraZeneca and Berg

have partnered to on find

and evaluate medicines

for treating Parkinson’s

disease and other

neurological disorders

Source: The above analysis is based on the DRAUP’s proprietary engineering database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Includes current leadership announcement, partnership and R&D initiatives from Boston based companies updated as of Jul, 2018

Collaborations

Source : DRAUP

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Boston is home to internationally reputed Universities with mature Computer Science and Health Science Programs

30+ Universitieswith relevant Computer &

Health Science Programs

~50,000 fresh university

Graduates annually

Key Health

Sciences Areas of

Study

Key AI/Data

Science Areas of

Study

Harvard UniversityBoston University

7 Global Top 100

UniversitiesUndergraduate

Graduate

Undergraduate

Graduate

• Biomedical Engineering

• Biochemistry and Molecular

Biology

• Health Science

• Public Health

• Neuroscience

• Behavioural Biology

• Cell Biology & Genetics

• Computational Biology and

Bioinformatics

• Biomedical Imaging

• Biorobotics

• Genomics and Proteomics

• Biostatistics

• Microbiology

• Public Health & Medicine

• Health Data Science

• Advanced Scientific

Computing

• Information Management

• Health Informatics & Analytics

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Machine Communication

• Computer Science

• Applied Mathematics

• Data Science

• Applied Statistics

• Machine Learning

• Computational Design of

Materials

• Data Systems

~6,000Health Science

Graduates

~4,000Computer Science

Graduates

Note : Reference - National Centre for Educational Statistics. DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 50+ Boston-based universities to identify top universities key courses and partnerships in software engineering, AI, Data Science and Healthcare Technologies.

Universities

Source : DRAUP

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13Source: Zinnov GEIP

Harvard University

Boston University

MIT

Collaborations/ CoEs

Neurogenerative Disorders

Cancer DiagnosticsResearch is being done on developing

non-invasive cancer diagnostics

methods. A student has recently

developed a method to be able to

diagnose cancer from just one drop of

blood

Boston University has an entire

Center dedicated to research on

Parkinson’s and other movement

related disorders

Focussed research labs with tech giants and OEMs for niche chronic diseases

such as Neuroscience and Oncology

Launched a five-year $50 Mn research project to delve into

cancer drug resistance.Harvard

MIT

IBM invested $240 Mn to setup

an AI innovation lab to

enable large scale data access to

niche prototypes

Biomedical

InformaticsGenetics

Infectious

DiseasesNeuroscience

Drug Delivery Imaging

Janssen Research & Development

Invested more than $10m in BU

professor Dr Avrum Spira’s research

into biomarkers for the early

detection of COPD and lung cancer

Cancer ResearchKoch institute for integrative cancer

research at MIT works on nanotechnology-

based cancer therapeutics, devices for

cancer detection and monitoring,

personalized medicine

Universities

Emerging Research Segments

Computational

Genomics

Neuromorphics

Robot-Assisted

Surgery

. ” Strong university collaboration of IBM, Google, Intel helping their early stage

projects to pivot through licencing, acquisition and enterprise usecases.”

Note : DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 50+ Boston-based universities to identify top universities, key courses and partnerships in software engineering, AI, Data Science and Healthcare Technologies.

Misha HerscuFounder and CEO at EnvoyAI

Source : DRAUP

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Industry/University Collaborations Courses/ProgramsHealthcare Initiatives

5 Globally renowned

Universities

Scientists and

Researchers 46K + Students across

institutions21K +

Medical Engineering and Medical

Physics (MEMP) program (is a five to

seven-year program)

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

program• Master of Science programs Health

Informatics

• Health Data Analytics

• PHD-program in Personal Health

Informatics

Healthcare Innovation MBA Course

Digital Health Initiative

It is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy and the Hariri Institute for Computing

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partners with

UMass for a $5.5Mn grant project to enhance

healthcare using artificial intelligence

HBS Healthcare Initiative

It promotes faculty research, supports the

development of a portfolio of high-impact

educational programs, and creates an

interconnected HBS health community.

Incubating niche prototypes through advanced HealthTech courses in data science,

bio-informatics and analytics

“Top Universities like Harvard and MIT produce valuable talent. Universities in Boston have their hands in

Healthcare AI through collaborations and partnerships”

Universities

Note : DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 50+ Boston-based universities to identify top universities, key courses and partnerships in software engineering, AI, Data Science and Healthcare Technologies.

Rhoda AuDirector of Neuropsychology, Framingham Heart Study

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University research labs are highly focused towards digital technologies like AI, Cloud computing and IoT for healthcare applications

Research Institutions

These institutes play a critical role in the science innovation and discovery in Boston ecosystem - and share innovation and discovery with scientist around the globe.

-

CollaborationName Focus Area

Hariri Institute

IBM Watson-

MIT Media Lab

Wyss Institute

Broad Institute

Boston University

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Red Hat

Honda

MIT

University of Zurich

Boston University

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

The Broad Institute

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

MIT

Harvard University

Harvard Affiliated Hospitals

• Cloud Economics

• Bioinformatics

• Brain Activity

Mapping

• Enterprise Mining

• Smart City

• Network Security

• Open Cloud

Technologies

• Artificial Intelligence

• Cloud Computing

• Data Science

• Cyber Security

• 3D Printing

• Gene Circuits

• Immunotherapy

• Microfabrication

• Medical Devices

• Building Materials

• Nanodevices

• 3D Organ Engineering

• Living Cellular Devices

• Immuno-Materials

• Bioinspired Therapeutics

• Data Sciences

• Genetic

Perturbation

• Genomics

• Metabolomics

• Proteomics

• Imaging

• Chemical Biology & Therapeutics

• Genome Regulation &

Epigenomics

• Medical & Population Genetics

• Molecular

Machines

• Biomechatronics

• Fluid Interfaces

• Augmented

Reality

• Affective

Computing

• Data Sciences

• Artificial Intelligence

• Computer Vision

• Neurotechnologies

• Robotics

• 3D Printing

• Internet of Things

Universities

Note : DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 50+ Boston-based universities to identify top universities, key courses and partnerships in software engineering, AI, Data Science and Healthcare Technologies.

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Start-ups are focussed on mature healthcare segments and digital healthcare technology areas

Source : DRAUP

USD 1.5 Billion

Total Funding in 2017

Boston

>116deals

Bay Area

USD 0.96 Billion

Total Funding in 2017

Health-Tech start-ups in Boston are focussed on mature healthcare segments

The data points above are curated from DRAUP’s start-ups module. DRAUP tracks data from 400K start-ups across 13 different verticals.

The data points above are for start-ups working in the Health Tech verticalNote:

33deals

Top Focus Areas

Boston is the second best US metro area

for digital health deals after Bay area

VCs

Accelerators

Hospitals

Patient Experience

Fitness & Wellness

Predictive Analysis

Data Management Platforms Remote Monitoring

Therapeutics

Diagnostics

Drug Discovery

Consumer Health Information Chronic Disease Management

Start-Ups

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ML algorithm start-ups which also provide dedicated data management tools and digital collaboration workflows are most successful in scaling prototypes

Key Start-up Case Studies

Healthcare start-ups in Boston are developing

solutions across four major segments. Their

major focus is on developing data-based

diagnostic solutions.

AI & Advanced Analytics

Diagnosis

Remote Monitoring

Data Collection & Analysis

*Relative number of start-ups

Cyft partners with leading care organizations to optimize care management for chronic / complex, behavioral health, and dual-eligible populations.

Provider data management solutions that help health systems match patients with the right providers and enhance patient access enterprise-wide.

Seven Bridges Platform is a cloud-based environmentfor conducting bioinformatic analyses. It is a central hub for teams to store, analyze, and jointly interpret their bioinformatic data.

Rx&You analyzes streams of patient-generated data with an inference-based AI rules engine to predict treatment non-adherence and prevent it

Mimo is a smart wearable baby monitor, pushing data on respiration, body position, skin temperature, audio, and activity level real-time to a parent’s smartphone. Uses genome sequencing & machine learning to

modernize and speed up infectious disease diagnosis and treatment

PathAI is using artificial intelligence to develop technology that assists pathologists in making rapid and accurate diagnose

Atlas5D provides real world evidence of patient function and mobility. Echo5D technology is an Ambient Measurement System (AMS) that accurately identifies and monitors patients in any setting

($48m)

($72m)

($1.8m)

($3.2m)

($3m)

($15.2m)

“Availability of training datasets is huge

particularly in Boston where lot of hospitals have

strong IT infra set-up to provide datasets”

Data

Management

Platform

AI/ML

Algorithms+Start-ups offering Data Management platforms

along with a second layer of ML algorithm over it.

This is one of the most successful use-cases for

healthcare start-ups.

Start-Ups

The data points above are curated from DRAUP’s start-ups module. DRAUP tracks data from 400K start-ups across 13 different verticals.

The data points above are for start-ups working in the Health Tech verticalNote:

Misha HerscuFounder and CEO at EnvoyAI

Source : DRAUP

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Network of Universities, VC Ecosystem and Hospitals are emboldening the start-up Ecosystem at different growth stages

University Ecosystem

Incubation Phase

Growth and Maturity Phase

Exit Phase

Strong VC Ecosystem

• Universities have set-up healthcare

centric incubators and

accelerators to support start-ups.

• They also conduct hackathons and

pitch competitions to encourage

entrepreneurs into the healthcare

space.

Collaborations with Hospitals

• Hospitals have created processes facilitate the

review and onboarding of proposed

pilots of start-ups.

• They help start-ups test their products and

take them to commercialization.• VCs have recently shifted their focus towards

Digital Healthcare in Boston and are setting

up accelerators and funds specially in

the healthcare segment.

A group of Boston business backers launched

a $26 million venture fund, and

accompanying incubator dedicated to digital

health startups

Massachusetts Innovation Catalyst Fund

Start-ups must demonstrate proof of

concept and pilot models which can show high

accuracy results of the success of the

healthcare products to convince decision

makers (Hospitals or Medical OEMS)

Key growth enablers during the life Cycle

The Engine - MIT

Harvard Innovation Labs

Northeastern University Mosaic Fund

Start-Ups

The data points above are curated from DRAUP’s start-ups module. DRAUP tracks data from 400K start-ups across 13 different verticals.

The data points above are for start-ups working in the Health Tech verticalNote:

Dr. Steven MunevarPresident & CEO,

Munevar & Associates, Inc.

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Boston government is actively promoting Digital Healthcare by setting up start-up accelerators and innovation labs

Massachusetts eHealth Institute

Digital Innovation Lab

✓ In November 2016, Gov. Baker in

Boston created a 33-member

Digital Healthcare Council to ensure

that the economic development

from the digital healthcare vertical

extends throughout the state.

✓ The council includes prominent

leaders from government, industry,

and medicine.

Digital Healthcare Council

The public-private collaboration is a recent initiative

by the government to invest $250,000 in two

digital health innovation labs

Pulse@MassChallenge, is a startup

accelerator/contest backed by the city of

Boston, the commonwealth of Massachusetts,

and the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership.

TechSpring provides startups with a place to

connect with leading healthcare and technology

experts, the opportunity to validate their ideas with

existing health systems, and a forum for

collaboration within the ecosystem.

✓ MeHI is the designated state

agency for coordinating healthcare

innovation and technology.

✓ It has set up a digital healthcare

hub in Boston to accelerate the

healthcare ecosystem.

Government Initiatives to

Promote Digital Healthcare

1

2

3

Source: The above analysis is based on the information presented on Boston and Massachusetts Government websites and DRAUP’s proprietary engineering

database and insights from industry stakeholders, updated as on Jul, 2018;

Source : DRAUP

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