Chinese Healthcare Delegation Including Hillhouse and Xingshulin to Visit Israeli Digital Health Innovators in August

Time:August 16–22, 2015

Host Organization:
Intu International Business Exchange Organization
China Internet Healthcare Conference
VCBeat

Overview
Healthcare is a pillar industry in Israel, and mobile health has experienced explosive growth there over the past two years. VCBeat invites you to explore the “Startup Nation,” engage in dialogues with Israel’s most innovative mHealth companies, seek breakthrough insights for mobile healthcare, and connect with investment and cooperation opportunities between China and Israel.

The innovative mobile health companies we have engaged with include: Nuvo, an innovative mobile health monitoring platform for mothers and infants; MediSafe, a leading mobile medication management software; Medicope, a mobile companion for patient rehabilitation; Telesofia, a user-friendly medical video platform; Dario and GlucoMe, which enable blood glucose monitoring anytime and anywhere; and Rainbow, a leading Israeli healthcare venture capital firm. These companies cover all aspects of the mobile health ecosystem (see details below).

Who Should Attend

Mobile health entrepreneurs, healthcare service providers, medical device companies, health IT enterprises, and investment institutions (over a dozen guests have already registered, including Hu Haichen, Managing Director at Hillhouse Capital; Zhang Yusheng, Founder and CEO of Apricot Forest; and Xu Changdun, Vice President of Keji Holdings. Limited to 20 participants, with only 5 spots remaining).

Conversations with Leading Mobile Health Enterprises

1. Lifewatch: A Leader in Mobile Health

Lifewatch, a medical device manufacturer established in 1993, has developed the LifeWatch mobile health terminal, a truly serious, medical-grade health management device. Equipped with built-in sensors, it accurately provides data on body temperature, fat distribution, stress levels, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis, as well as blood glucose and blood pressure. Each LifeWatch unit undergoes inspection by medical regulatory authorities, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), prior to leaving the factory. The company raised a total of $7 million in financing in 2014, with its Q1 2014 revenue growing by 12.2% to reach $20 million.

2. Med-trix: Remote Online Healthcare Services

Med-trix was founded 11 years ago, focusing on providing telemedicine services. The Med-trix system integrates patients, doctors, clinics, and hospitals into a virtual community.

3. GlucoMe: An Innovative and Convenient Mobile Blood Glucose Meter

GlucoMe’s mobile blood glucose monitoring system addresses the need for portable glucose measurement among the 300 million diabetes patients worldwide. Users simply apply a drop of blood to the GlucoMe device, which then transmits blood glucose levels via acoustic signals to the GlucoMe app. GlucoMe boasts the lowest production cost among all mobile blood glucose monitoring devices, and its product is expected to receive FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) clearance soon.

4. Tyto Care: An Anytime, Anywhere Health Checkup Platform

Tyto Care is an innovative handheld physical examination platform that enables ordinary users to perform accurate health checks anytime and anywhere, while also allowing physicians to conduct remote examinations. TytoCare can examine the mouth, throat, ears, heart, lungs, and skin. To date, Tyto Care has raised $4 million in funding.

5. Telesofia Medical: A Convenient and User-Friendly Medical Video Platform

Telesofia Medical enhances users’ health literacy and patient engagement by creating innovative, interactive, and personalized patient education videos. Through Telesofia’s patented platform, healthcare providers can automatically and easily produce customized educational videos. The company has currently raised $1.5 million in funding.

6. Sweetch: Preventing Diseases with Big Data Analytics

Sweetch leverages diabetes prevention as its entry point, utilizing big data from diabetic patients to assess an individual’s probability of developing diabetes under their current dietary habits. How can one manage daily sugar intake through diet?

7.Medicope

Patient Recovery's Mobile Companion

Medicope is a recovery companion for patients with chronic and serious illnesses. Medicope ensures that patients and their caregivers receive daily updates on the latest disease developments, treatment recommendations, and support. These insights come not only from professional sources but also from fellow patients and their caregivers facing similar conditions.

8. eWaveMD: Remotely Addressing Rural Healthcare Challenges

The ARTEC platform, developed by eWaveMD, integrates cloud technology, electronic medical records (EMR), hardware, and medical devices to connect patients in remote areas with specialists at central hospitals. Additionally, ARTEC enables healthcare providers in remote regions to deliver patient care under the guidance of more specialized medical professionals. Currently, eWaveMD’s products are primarily used in North America, Latin America, and Europe, serving over 30 million patients and 30,000 physicians.

9.6over6: Mobile Optometry System

The mobile app developed by 6over6 enables smartphone-based refraction to measure myopia or hyperopia, astigmatism, and pupillary distance, with results displayed directly to users within the app. In the long term, 6over6 can establish a vertical, eye-health-focused electronic medical record system to facilitate eyeglass prescriptions for users. As a functional app, 6over6 also serves as a powerful gateway for eyewear and eye-care products. Both its products and concept hold significant growth potential. The company was founded in 2013 by two Israeli PhDs.

10. CliniWorks >: A Leading Enterprise in Medical Big Data Research

CliniWorks is a global leader in healthcare big data research, dedicated to transforming big data into actionable decisions. Through its Accel® platform, CliniWorks integrates diverse real-world data sources into a single, searchable, structured dataset.

11. SCiO: A Versatile Foundational Device for Mobile Healthcare

The miniature spectrometer developed by SCiO can detect substances, transmit spectral data to the cloud for analysis, and deliver the results to users via a mobile app. The information provided ranges from basic substance identification (e.g., whether it is an apple or a pear) to material properties such as sugar content and caloric value, as well as detailed product descriptions. In the field of mobile health, SCiO enables users to scan medications with the device to identify their ingredients, thereby preventing accidental ingestion of incorrect drugs. Additionally, by integrating information on food and beverages, the system helps users maintain healthy dietary habits.

12. Medivizor: Providing personalized medical information and services to users

Medivizor is the first website to provide truly personalized information and services for patients with chronic and serious diseases, winning first place in the mobile health startup competition hosted by the renowned Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd. Through its unique algorithms, Medivizor helps each patient access the most accurate, timely, reliable, and relevant medical and disease-related information. Medivizor’s vision is to become the “Google of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.”

13. HelpAround: A Mutual Aid Social Platform for People with Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition that requires constant attention. HelpAround aims to engage as many people as possible in the management of diabetes by enabling patients to share experiences with one another and locate nearby blood glucose meters or insulin supplies. In emergencies, such as sudden diabetic coma, users can simply press an emergency alert button to notify nearby nurses or individuals knowledgeable about diabetes. Recently, HelpAround has also begun extending its services to individuals with food allergies.

14. MediSafe: Mobile Medication Management Software Makes Patients Healthier

MediSafe leverages its pioneering mobile medication management software to enable family members, friends, and hospitals to collaborate in helping patients achieve better health outcomes.

15. HeraMed: An Innovative Pregnancy Monitoring Platform

HeraMed makes prenatal monitoring incredibly simple. Its product, Compass, is the first medical-grade home fetal health monitoring device, enabling expectant mothers to safely and accurately monitor their baby’s health via smartphone. Compass integrates multiple sensors to provide real-time fetal heart rate monitoring and can be linked with electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate integrated mobile healthcare management.

16. OpisoftCare: A Leading Enterprise in Medical Information and Big Data

OpisoftCare is a leading Israeli enterprise in medical information and big data, helping hospitals, government healthcare institutions, and others improve their clinical diagnosis and treatment, operational performance, and financial outcomes. OpisoftCare currently covers radiology, clinical care, population health big data, and more.

17. China-Israel Mobile Health Summit Salon & Dialogue with Leading Venture Capitalists

China-Israel Mobile Health Summit Salon

Mobile Health: Global Trends and Future Landscape

With the widespread adoption of mobile technology and shifts in the healthcare market landscape, enterprises in the mobile health sector have sprung up worldwide, heralding the arrival of the mHealth era. What kind of chemical reaction will emerge between China, boasting the world’s most promising market potential, and Israel, globally renowned for its technological innovation? The China-Israel Mobile Health Summit Salon invites Chinese entrepreneurs to engage in dialogue with the most disruptive entrepreneurs and investors in Israel’s mobile health sector. Together, they will explore global trends and the future landscape of mobile health, seek breakthrough inspirations, and facilitate investment and cooperation opportunities between China and Israel.

18. Rainbow Medical: A Leading VC Focused on Healthcare Investment

Riboo Medical Devices is an internationally leading R&D company in the medical device sector. It invests in medical device products invented by Yossi Gross, a renowned Israeli medical device inventor and entrepreneur, thereby delivering substantial returns to its investors. Yossi Gross currently holds over 600 patented inventions in the field of medical devices and is a highly acclaimed entrepreneur in both the United States and Israel.

19. Veritas: Leading VC in Digital Health

Veritas is a pioneer in Israeli venture capital and is currently raising a fund of $60–100 million to invest in global digital health startups originating from Israel. As a world-class Israeli firm, Veritas believes that healthcare research and big data repositories will give rise to new companies in the digital health sector. Its team is positioned at the heart of this ecosystem in Israel, enabling it to forge connections with leading U.S. healthcare institutions and leverage Israel’s healthcare big data resources.

Assessment Criteria

• Visit the CEO and founder of a leading Israeli mobile health company.
• This itinerary is jointly curated and offered by VCBeat in collaboration with senior experts from Israel’s mobile health industry. The list of companies to be visited will be further optimized based on the final registration status.
• More than two internal exchange and discussion sessions will be held during the trip to share insights gained.

Fee Description
• Attendees: RMB 78,000 per person (limited to 20 spots; register before July 25 to enjoy a discounted rate of RMB 68,000 per person)
• Fees include: all activity experiences during the visit, dining and transportation, hotel accommodation, overseas travel accident insurance and team service fees, and visa processing fees.
• Exclusions: Round-trip international airfare, domestic transportation to Beijing, accommodation and meal expenses, and costs for optional personal activities.

Registration Method:
1. For more details: Add WeChat ID spring20140126 or call 13628441088 directly

2. Direct Registration: Name + Phone Number + Email Address + Company + Job Title + Israel