Category: Award

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Patientory Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum 

 

• The World Economic Forum announced its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2021 – companies that are shaping industries from healthcare to retail and many more.
• This year’s cohort includes representation from 26 economies on six continents with reach far beyond traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley. 
• Patientory, which democratizes the individual ownership of global health data and provides enterprises with comprehensive insights, made it to the selection for its contributions in the field of digital health. 
• The full list of Technology Pioneers can be viewed here. 

 

Atlanta, 15 June, 2021 – Patientory, the Atlanta-based tech company that democratizes health data, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”.  Founded by Chrissa McFarlane, CEO Patientory is a global population health data management and analytics company. Through its two decentralized applications, the Patientory mobile app and enterprise software tool Neith, the company provides patients with ownership of their data and enterprises with real-time data and risk management analytics, and an AI- driven clinical trial recruitment management system. 

The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

With their selection as Technology Pioneer, CEO Chrissa McFarlane of Patientory will be invited to participate at World Economic Forum activities, events and discussions throughout the year. Patientory will also contribute to Forum initiatives over the next two years, working with global leaders to help address key industry and societal issues. 

“We’re excited to welcome Patientory to our 2021 cohort of Technology Pioneers,” says Susan Nesbitt, Head of the Global Innovators Community, World Economic Forum. “Patientory and its fellow pioneers are developing technologies that can help society solve some of its most pressing issues. We look forward to their contribution to the World Economic Forum in its commitment to improving the state of the world.”

“It’s great to be acknowledged as a pioneer by the World Economic Forum”, said Chrissa McFarlane. “New innovation and change in healthcare often takes decades to materialize. We’re honored to be recognized as a world pioneer as we continue to innovate and solve some of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT in today’s society. We look forward to contributing to the Forum dialogues on this challenge as well as continued support from the Forum to provide the best solutions for healthcare stakeholders.” 

For the first time in the community’s history, over 30% of the cohort are led by women. The firms also come from regions all around the world, extending their community far beyond Silicon Valley. This year’s cohort includes start-ups from 26 countries, with UAE, El Salvador, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe represented for the first time. 

The diversity of these companies extends to their innovations as well. 2021 Tech Pioneer firms are shaping the future by advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and many more. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be found here. 

Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s Platforms. 

All info on this year’s Technology Pioneers can be found here: http://wef.ch/techpioneers21 

More information on past winners, information on the community and the application link can be found here. 

 

About Patientory: Patientory democratizes individual ownership of the world’s health data and incentives to improve health outcomes through actionable insights via a blockchain enabled health data ecosystem. (www.patientory.com)

About World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. (www.weforum.org).

About the Technology Pioneers:

The World Economic Forum believes that innovation is critical to the future well-being of society and to driving economic growth. Launched in 2000, the Technology Pioneer community is composed of early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

The World Economic Forum provides the Technology Pioneers community with a platform to engage with the public- and private-sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome the current crisis and build future resiliency.

We’re super excited to share that Patientory was awarded Innovation Grant as part of the Women Startup Challenge Grants Program for the Covid-19 tech solution. Five startups were selected to participate in the COVID-19 Tech Grant Program. A $10,000 Innovation Grant was awarded to Patientory for the tech solution.

About the Program

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed societal and industrial vulnerabilities and diverse perspectives are vital to address these unique challenges. The COVID-19 Tech Grant was designed to fund women-led ventures focused on solving the biggest health, education, employment, civic engagement, and financial issues related to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Innovation Grant

Patientory Inc. is a population health data management and analytics company. Through its two decentralized applications -NEITH an enterprise software tool, and the Patientory mobile app- which runs on the PTOYMatrix, Patientory Inc. empowers patients, medical professionals, healthcare organizations and employers with actionable insights into healthcare data to improve population health outcomes. Meet the finalist and read more information at here.

About Women Who Tech

Women Who Tech is a nonprofit organization building a culture and inclusive economy to accelerate women tech entrepreneurs and close the funding gap.

Women are founding innovative startups more than ever before, yet only 10% of investor money globally goes to startups founded by women. This is unacceptable! 

We believe that if we’re going to create products for the masses and build breakthrough technologies that truly solve big problems, we need to build up and fund diverse-led startups now. Providing funding and resources to the founders and companies who deeply understand the problems they’re working to solve will deliver strong financial returns, while transforming the world.

We’re super excited to announce that Patientory won the 1st grant prize for the  Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Open Innovation Challenge organized by Novartis.

We were awarded for our unique approach of using blockchain to share health information between patients and providers to enable better tracking of symptoms and disease progression for a disease that waxes and wanes. Enabling more seamless virtual communication between patients and providers is increasingly important, especially in the current COVID Pandemic!

About Novartis

Novartis provides innovative healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis offers a diversified portfolio to best meet these needs: innovative medicines, cost-saving generic and biosimilar pharmaceuticals, and eye care. Novartis has leading positions globally in each of these areas. In 2017, the Group achieved net sales of USD 49.1 billion, while R&D throughout the Group amounted to approximately USD 9.0 billion. Novartis Group companies employ approximately 124,000 full-time-equivalent associates. Novartis products are sold in approximately 155 countries around the world.

About Patientory

Patientory empowers healthcare systems, providers, and consumers with a single, secure application for sharing healthcare data, providing unprecedented insight into each patient’s health and resulting in better, healthier outcomes.  Patientory’s applications provide increased insight into an individual’s health management and empower people to make better decisions, coordinate between care providers, and receive better care overall.