Health Tech World Awards 2023: Winners

Yes, the day is finally here!

After months of deliberation we are delighted to announce the winners of the Health Tech World Awards 2023.

Many thanks to everyone who joined us at the awards ceremony, from the judges and sponsors to the incredible candidates doing amazing things in health tech.

And a special thanks to our headline sponsor FINN Partners for all your support behind the scenes.

“It’s almost impossible to choose a winner in any of these categories. They are so close, with each of you representing extraordinary enterprises.

“You’re all pioneers in a new era of therapeutics.” – Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health and Purpose, FINN Partners

So without further ado…

Health Tech Start-Up of the Year sponsored by Barclays Eagle Labs

Winner:

birdie’s home healthcare technology empowers homecare professionals to make better decisions, save time and ultimately deliver more personalised care to older adults in the face of a major care crisis.

Honourable mention:

Odin Vision is connecting endoscopy systems to the cloud to provide doctors with tools that aid them in decision making, leading to early treatment and saved lives.

Runners-Up:

MyMynd

Sano Genetics

XR Therapeutics

Innovation of the Year sponsored by Becky Warnes Consultancy

Winner:

Careology is intelligent technology that empowers people living and dealing with cancer by disrupting traditional models of cancer care with digital technology.

Runners-Up:

AIVF

Gynesonics

Lumen

Medimusic

Most Improved Patient Outcomes Sponsored by ORCHA

Winner:

Viz.ai’s Viz LVO artificial intelligence (AI) powered software automatically analyzes brain computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans of patients who are suspected of having a stroke.

Honourable mention:

my mhealth is a UK-based, clinically-led digital therapeutics company providing solutions for the management of long-term conditions to the NHS.

Runners-Up:

Doctrin + Lakeside Healthcare

HN

Vygon

Best Digital Health App sponsored by McDermott Will & Emery

Winner:

CardMedic is a pioneering digital healthcare communications app designed to make healthcare more accessible. Launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, it is now available in 44 languages and has over 55,000 users in 120 countries worldwide.

Runners-Up

Ascenti Reach

Flo

MyStaff App

Wisdo Health

Health Tech Leader of the Year Sponsored by Odgers Berndtson

Winner:

Dan Vahdat, CEO, Huma

Together with NHS partners, Dan led Huma in creating the first digitally enabled virtual wards for Covid-19 patients, which have since been shown to double clinical capacity, improve patient outcomes and reduce deaths.

Honourable Mention:

Dr Suchi Saria, Founder and CEO, Bayesian Health

Dr Saria’s research has pioneered the development of next generation diagnostic and treatment planning tools that use statistical machine learning methods to individualise care.

Runners-Up:

Daniel Bulkin, Founder and CEO, Healistic

Alexandra Assouad, Founder, Mind-Easy

Dr Nora Khaldi, Founder and CEO, Nuritas

Young Health Tech Leader of the Year Sponsored by LumiraDX

Winner

Kirsty Smitten

Kirsty is an award-winning CEO that has discovered and led the development of MetalloBio – a novel antimicrobial platform technology that has the potential to save millions of lives.

Runners-Up

Caitlin Baltzer, COO, MYndspan

Moises Barbera-Ramos, Founder and Lead Researcher, Drill Surgeries

Cecilie Hvidberg Jakobsen, CEO and Founder, wawa fertility

Jyoti Sharma, Founder and CEO, TaraCares

Health Tech Team of the Year Sponsored by Anatomical Concepts

Winner

Healios is reimagining the care experience by optimally combining an expert multidisciplinary care team with evidence-based, family-centred approaches and great technology.

Runners-Up

PHIL

Qure.ai

SpineX

uMed