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The Nurse Staffing Spreadsheet That Told a Hospital It Needed 9.6 More Nurses
Heidi Morin was told to cut staff. Her own calculator found the unit was 9.6 nurses short. Parity grew from that argument into a system designed to make clinical reality legible to hospital finance teams.
The Hospital's Most Important Robot Might Be a Locked Drawer
Omnicell began with a father watching nurses hunt for supplies in a hospital. Three decades later, it is trying to make every medication drawer, robot and pharmacy workflow behave like one connected system.
Kontakt.io
Kontakt.io is an AI-powered real-time location system (RTLS) and care-operations platform for hospitals. Starting in 2013 as a Krakow Bluetooth-beacon maker, it now combines IoT sensors, wearable tags and cloud AI to track the location, status and flow of patients, staff and equipment across health systems - helping hospitals cut wasted time, find assets, protect staff and orchestrate care around each patient's journey. It has deployed 4M+ IoT devices, serves 32,000+ end users, and raised a $47.5M Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2024.
Vitalize
Vitalize is a San Francisco health-tech company building an AI platform that helps hospitals and health systems optimize labor - unifying staffing, scheduling, patient flow, and capacity in one system. Founded by Veeraj Shah, Sanketh Andhavarapu, and Nikhil DSouza and shaped in Y Combinator's W23 batch, the company began as a mental-health support tool for burned-out clinicians and evolved into the operational backbone that decides who works where and when, cutting manual scheduling time by roughly 70% and reaching demonstrated ROI in under 90 days.
Apella
Apella is a San Francisco-based healthcare AI company using ambient video, computer vision and machine learning to run hospitals' operating rooms better - automatically detecting up to 14 surgical case events, forecasting case durations, and writing structured data back to the EHR so surgical teams can serve more patients without staying late.
Qventus, Inc
Qventus builds AI 'teammates' that automate the messy operational work inside hospitals - from surgical scheduling to discharge planning - helping health systems unlock capacity, cut excess days, and grow revenue without adding staff.