MedHaul Earns Top Honor in WellWithAll's $1 Million Prize for AI-Powered Innovation Changing Daily Health for the People Care Reaches Last

Healthcare, technology, philanthropy and business came together for the inaugural Prize, which surfaced AI-powered health breakthroughs working quietly in communities across the country with the collective power to reach nearly 6 million people, and put $1 million behind scaling them.

BOSTON, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Too often, the people who need the most help navigating healthcare face the most friction, from forms and language barriers to the challenge of managing their health day to day. The WellWithAll $1 Million Prize went looking for the AI-powered tools already creating better outcomes in people's lives and found a field of breakthroughs working quietly in communities across the country.

On October 15, MedHaul took home first place and $500,000, selected by an expert judging panel after five finalists demonstrated their solutions live in Boston. The Prize was created by WellWithAll, a purpose-led wellness company rooted in making wellness more accessible for all. The consumer brand directs 20% of its profits to support health equity.

Finalists showcased proven AI-powered innovations that are getting patients to their medical appointments, translating discharge instructions into a family's own language, monitoring someone's heart at home, and creating access to mental health support for kids and adults. Together, they showed how technology can make it easier for people to navigate care, connect with the medical support they need and get help regardless of who they are and where they live.

"When people hear AI right now, a lot of them hear fear, all while trust in the systems meant to catch people when they fall is wearing thin," said Demond Martin, WellWithAll Co-Founder and CEO. "What we found is that the breakthrough is already here. The people who have been left furthest behind in our healthcare system deserve tools that meet them where they are, no matter their ZIP code. The Prize puts real weight behind proven solutions so they reach the people the system reaches last, with the power to scale impact for generations to come."

Awards were announced as follows:

First Place: MedHaul, a Memphis-based company, received $500,000 for its medical transportation solution that uses AI to coordinate wheelchair and stretcher rides, door-to-door, for the patients who kept getting turned away. Some of its riders live up to 100 miles from the nearest care facility, and MedHaul has cut the time it takes to schedule a ride from more than two hours to about two minutes. Among its riders, 42% live in rural communities, 48% are over 65 and 46% live in low-income communities. A certified B Corp, MedHaul measures its impact across the patients it serves, the transportation companies it partners with and the communities it reaches.

Second Place: MEandMine, a San Jose-based company, received $300,000 for its youth mental health platform, which uses a video game to flag behavioral signals in children before they can put into words what's wrong. Kids can wait a decade between their first symptoms and treatment. MEandMine alerts school counselors early with a suggested care plan, and its recommendations match trained counselors 91% of the time.

Third Place: Boston Children's Hospital received $180,000 for its language access solution. Too many families who don't speak English leave the hospital with care instructions they can't read. Boston Children's uses AI to draft translated discharge instructions the moment they're written, with a professional linguist checking every word. Translations now come back in a fraction of the time, in more than 100 languages, so more families go home with instructions in a language they can understand.

Honorable Mentions: Slingshot AI and Xandar Kardian each received $10,000. Slingshot AI's Ash offers mental health support by voice or text whenever someone needs it, designed with clinicians and already reaching more than 10,000 people, many in places with few providers. Xandar Kardian's radar sensor plugs in beside the bed and tracks breathing and heart rate with nothing to wear and no app, catching early warning signs of heart failure and infections like UTIs before they turn into sepsis, four to six days before a clinical event.

"Winning the WellWithAll Prize is honestly so validating," said Erica Plybeah, Founder and CEO of MedHaul. "When I started MedHaul in 2017, nobody wanted to talk about transportation. Today, health systems have the data showing it's one of the top barriers to care, and they want to help. They just don't know how. This funding will help us keep building our AI care operations layer that helps care teams see when a patient is at risk of missing their ride, and scale our new electronic medical record (EMR) and Uber Health integrations so more patients make their medical appointments and treatments. We're grateful to receive this capital from a partner with an aligned vision and mission, and now more people will get the care they need."

"The caliber of the competition was incredible," said Theresa Williamson, MD, MPH, neurosurgeon at Brown University Health and Prize judge. "Every single innovation we saw could make an immediate impact on clinical care. I see it in clinic every day. A missed ride can become a missed scan, a missed treatment, or even a diagnosis that comes too late. That's what turns a problem we could have addressed early into an emergency. MedHaul is covering that last mile, and getting something like that through these huge healthcare systems is a monumental feat. I'm just grateful."

WellWithAll developed the inaugural Prize competition with support from The M&T Charitable Foundation, co-presenting partner AARP, The Boston Foundation, the Kapor Foundation and Craig and Darla Albert.

The Prize advances WellWithAll's commitment to direct $300 million to combat health inequities and close the longevity gap by 2030.

To learn more about the Prize and its awardees, visit the WellWithAll Foundation site and find a media kit with additional assets here.

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