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Ahead Research, Founded by JHU Students, Accepted into NY Accelerator - cbl
Posted January 9, 2012
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By Brian Wolak
BALTIMORE -- Ahead Research, founded by a pair of fourth year Johns Hopkins medical students, was accepted into Blueprint Health, an accelerator that helps early-stage healthcare companies.
Craig Monsen and David Do created Baltimore-based Ahead Research to help care management companies reduce call times while providing patients with access to medical data/information through user-friendly tools.
Monsen, Johns Hopkins student body president, graduated from Harvard where he built a computer system that diagnosed heart disease using a digital stethoscope.
Do graduated from the University of Minnesota in Bioengineering.
Blueprint Health accepted nine companies, each of which will receive $20,000 in seed funding along with mentoring, legal support, financial consulting, and HR support as part of a three-month program in New York.
Other startups accepted hailed from as close as Philadelphia and as far away as Dubai.
Ahead Research's SymCAT application lets you enter symptoms into a database and then guides you through a series of questions to produce a list of possible diagnoses along with a corresponding ranking percentage.
Test it out here.
The application even appeals to one's inner hypochondriac, with a box titled "What are my chances of having ..."
Another notable Baltimore startup, Parking Panda, was accepted into a New York accelerator and has done well since then.
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