Arches Health Plan and Village Capital Fighting Back Against Health-Wealth Gap

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Join Village Capital and the Texas Medical Center on March 4, 2015, for our Health IT Venture Forum showcasing 8 enterprises bridging the "health-wealth" gap. 

The Venture Forum will feature pitches from the 8 early-stage ventures in the Village Capital-TMCx Health IT 2014/15, in partnership with the SGII Center, program and will include an audience of investors, mentors, potential customers, and members of the greater Salt Lake City community. The Venture Forum will be followed by a reception for all attendees. 

The Venture Forum is the capstone event of the Village Capital-TMCx Health IT 2014/15, in partnership with the SGII Center, program, which features 8 early-stage businesses increasing healthcare accessibility to low-income and underserved populations. At the end of the program, the top two program participants will be selected by the other entrepreneurs in the group to each receive a $50,000 USD investment. 

The 8 ventures featured at this event are:

• 1DocWay builds telepsychiatry networks for hospitals and clinics to increase provider access and create new revenue streams.
• AsthmaMD is on a mission to modernize asthma care to enable asthmatics and COPD sufferers to live healthier lives.  
• Healarium is a personalized, adaptive patient care plans helping people follow clinical daily regimens to manage chronic conditions.  
• Hybrent is a mobile supply chain company helping customers reduce cost, while improving efficiencies. 
• iRxReminder offers a mobile data gathering and cloud based monitoring platform that ensures patient medication and care compliance in clinical research or healthcare delivery. 
• OnePortal.io is the one portal needed to strengthen relationships with patients and providers. 
• Seratis builds a network of providers and family members around a patient in order to better coordinate care inside and outside the hospital. 
• SpeakMODalities creates software apps that help kids with autism learn speech and language skills.
• UberHealth enables children staying away from their parents to manage their elder's well-being from a distance.  

About the Event Organizers: 

Village Capital

Village Capital has supported 400 enterprises across 30 accelerator programs in 9 countries over the past 4 years. The organization has also screened 10,000 companies providing business solutions to major social problems, with enterprises reaching 6 million customers, creating 6,000 jobs, and raising more than $100 million in follow-on capital.

The Texas Medical Center

The largest medical complex in the world, the Texas Medical Center (TMC) is internationally recognized and home to many of the na­tion's best hospitals, physicians, educational institutions, researchers, and the largest concentration of life-sciences experts. Since opening in 1945, TMC has been pioneering patient care, research, education, and prevention. For the first time in its history, the Texas Medical Center has aligned the multi-institutional expertise to formu­late five institutions dedicated to: Health Policy, Clinical Research, Regenerative Medicine, Genomics, and Innovation. Together, these institutions will advance the Texas Medical Center as the global leader in human health and life sciences.

Arches Health Plan

Arches Health Plan is a revolutionary new health coverage option for Utahns. What makes us different? As a CO-OP (consumer operated and oriented plan) we are a true non-profit, whose business model is designed to benefit our members, not the insurers' bottom line. The Arches mission is to deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost to its members.

Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. Omidyar Network has committed more than $730 million to for-profit companies and non-profit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple initiatives, including Consumer Internet & Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights.  

The James Lee Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing

The mission and purposes of the James Lee Sorenson Global Impact Investing Center (SGII Center) are to accelerate and advance the understanding and application of principles of free enterprise to create scalable and sustainable, global societal change.

Chilton Capital

Chilton Capital Management LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) based in Houston, Texas founded in 1996. We are an equity and fixed-income manager providing investment services to financial institutions, corporate retirement plans and benefit trusts, foundations, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals. We are an independent, employee-owned organization of seasoned professionals with a shared passion for traditional methods of security analysis, transparency, and accountability to our clients. Primary research, critical thought, and analytical depth are integral to our investment process. The discipline we apply to all strategies and to the conduct of our business is informed by experience that spans almost five decades.

SOURCE Arches Health Plan