Bring together emerging technology companies from Israel and the Southeast with major US companies involved in homecare to provide:

• Exposure to a wide range of unique, cutting-edge technologies from Israel and Southeast US in a very concise and productive setting.
• Pre-arranged one-on-one meetings in order to foster joint venture R&D, investment, marketing alliances, and other forms of cooperation.
• A forum for leading technology, operational, and investment, healthcare and communications/ information technology executives to network.

Major health insurance companies (WellPoint, Georgia Health Benefits Plan), disease management companies (Healthways, Matria), equipment/ infrastructure vendors and systems integrators (AT&T, ADT, AMC, GE Healthcare, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Mckesson Provider Technologies, Patient Care Technologies, Philips Medical Systems, WebMD, WebVNC), research institutions (Georgia, Tech, Medical College of Georgia), assisted living communities (Del Webb), state systems (Georgia Medicaid), major corporations with retired employees (Delta Air lines, Coca-Cola, UPS, Southern Co.), and VC’s (Accuitive Medical Ventures, Aurora Funds, Cardinal Partners, Clayton Associates, Cutlass Capital, Georgia Venture Partners, Harbert , Healthcare Capital Partners, HIG Ventures, Intersouth Partners, MB Venture Partners, MDS Capital, Montreux Equity Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Quaker BioVentures, Tall Oaks Capital, Veritas Venture Partners).

Technologies that would be targeted include those used by patients and/or their families to improve the management of chronic disease in the home.  These include patient-centric information systems, technologies for remote monitoring of physiologic parameters, technologies for monitoring the physical movement of patients in the home, technologies for providing education and instruction to patients and technologies that provide for interaction between the patient in the home and remote health care providers and/or family members.

Examples of Israeli companies that could be expected to participate:  Advanced Monitoring Systems (AMS), Analyte Works, Andante, Atomed, Common Sense, DPE Medical, ETView, First Care Products, Flight Medical, EarlySense, Flowmedic, FluenTech,  Home Comfort Technologies, Hisense, HomeFree Systems, Imexco, Inflamet, Maternix, Medic4All, Medical Flow Systems, Medical Quant, Medivent,  Motorika, NanoAlert Nephroton , NESS, QuiCare, Tapuz, and VersaMed. Southeastern startup/emerging companies include:  CardioMems, InteleHealth (an ATDC company), and PhysioStream (an ATDC company).

 This event differs from a typical industry show or investor conference in that the participation is based on a pre-event matching procedure. 

• With the help of industry experts, generate a draft list of emerging home telehealth technologies that are of significant interest.
• Identify a gross prospect list of Israeli and Southeast-based emerging companies, and categorize according to the targeted technologies.
• Identify a target list of US organizations (health insurance companies, disease management companies, equipment/ infrastructure vendors, systems integrators, assisted living communities, state systems, and VC’s) that would have an interest in the targeted technologies.
• US organizations are asked to identify technology areas of interest and to pre-select, from the prospect list, the emerging technology companies that they would like to meet with at the event.
• Emerging companies are requested to specify which major US organizations they would like to see, and are included on the prospect list presented to the US companies.
• The top twenty emerging companies (15 from Israel and 5 from the Southeast US) that emerged through the matchmaking will do short presentations at the event to be followed by pre-arranged one-on-one meetings. 
• At the event, opportunity is given to arrange additional meetings.
• Keynote presentations by top policy and industry leaders and networking receptions are woven in-between the presentations and one-on-one meetings.

Israel is one of the world’s most dynamic sources for high tech companies and with original and cutting edge technologies, particularly in the field of medical devices and information technology.  The country has produced over 4,000 start-ups in the past few years, and has a robust venture capital industry to support entrepreneurs.  Excluding the US and Canada, Israel has more companies publicly traded on the US exchanges than any other country.  Virtually every major US technology company has development operations in Israel or investments in Israeli companies including IBM, Motorola, Cisco, GE Medical, Siemens, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Microsoft, HP, and more.  BIRD, a joint US-Israel foundation, supports joint venture R&D projects between American and Israeli companies.

The US has the world’s largest healthcare industry and is potentially the premier telehealth market. Atlanta (GA) is a major center for Healthcare IT and has several companies with established positions in homecare and telemedicine.  Atlanta is home to McKesson’s Information Technology business, one of the nation’s largest medical IT solution providers. The community has also spawned some of the major disease management and equipment and infrastructure vendors to the industry including Matria, WebVNC, Patient Care Technologies and more.  Through Georgia Tech, the industry has access to state support and academic research resources for major corporations and emerging companies.