Ohio - Your First Stop In Healthcare Innovation

Ohio

Your First Stop in Healthcare Innovation

Ohio is home to world-class research and development institutions, a strong history of successful healthcare ventures, and some of the most promising investment opportunities. JumpStart invests in, partners with, and prepares innovative, early-stage companies in Northeast Ohio for exponential growth.

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Research & Development Ohio has world-class research hospitals, research and development initiatives, industry leaders, and universities creating innovative healthcare technologies.

Research Labs, Collaboration Development Initiatives, & Industry Leaders Research Hospitals

Research Universities

Affymetrix

Akron Children's Hospital

Case Western Reserve University

Atrial Fibrilation Innovation Center

Akron General Medical

The Ohio State University

Austen BioInnovation Institute

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Ohio University

Battelle

Cleveland Clinic

University of Akron

Ben Venue

Cleveland VA Medical Center

University of Cincinnati

Center for Research Excellence in Molecular Cardiovascular Innovation

MetroHealth Medical Center

University of Toledo Medical Center

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Wright State University

Charles River Laboratories Functional Electrical Stimulation Center Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center Greatbatch Hitachi Integra Spine Kendle Medpace NAMSA Oakwood labs Philips Medical Systems Proctor & Gamble Health Sciences Institute Ricerca STERIS Corporation WIL Laboratories Bernstein Clinical Research Center Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center for Medical Education and Innovation at Riverside Cleveland FES Center Computational Medicine Center The Holzer Clinic Mayfield Clinic and Spine Institute OhioHealth Research and Innovation Institute Rogosin Institute The Biomedical Structural, Functional and Molecular Imaging Enterprise The Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging

Ohio State University Medical Center Summa Health System University Hospitals The University of Toledo Medical Center

Ohio is home to more than 1,800 bioscience organizations with 62,500+ employees and an economic output of $61.6 billion.

Biopharmaceuticals: Akebia Therapeutics • Arteriocyte

Medical Devices & Diagnostics: AxioMed Spine •

Medical Systems • AssureRx • Brainwashed • Cell Targeting

BioSys Medical • Branam Oral Health Technologies • CardioInsight

• ChanRx • Copernicus Therapeutics • Invasc Therapeutics •

Technologies • Cardiox • CerviLenz • Checkpoint Surgical • Clear Catheter Systems • Cleveland Heart • CleveX • Cryothermic Systems, Inc • DiraMed • Freedom Meditech • Future Path Medical • Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals • Intelect Medical •

Juventas Therapeutics • Milo Biotechnology • Neoprobe • Optivair • SironRx • SPR Therapeutics • Thermalin Diabetes Inc. • Thervasc • Tolera Therapeutics • Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals

Lyntek Medical Technologies • M2m Imaging • MDG Medical •

Healthcare Services & IT: ADS Biotechnology •

Minimally Invasive Devices • Mork Process • Nanostatics • NDI

Allostatix • Axiom • AnalizaDX • Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners

Medical • Neuros Medical • OrthoHelix Surgical Designs • Peritec •

• Click4Care • Clinical Outcomes Management Systems (COMS) •

PrevaHealth • Securus • Spineform • Synapse Biomedical • Syncro

CoverMyMeds • Endotronix • Enforcer eCoaching • Eris Medical

Medical Innovations • Synostics • Thermedx • Traycer • Turning

Technologies • Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology •

Point LLC • Tursiop Technologies • Union Springs Pharmaceuticals •

GenomOncology • Healthcare Data Works • Laboratory Partners • Noteworthy Medical • OnShift • PartsSource • Rescentris •

VasoLux Microsystems • Vertebration • Vision Optimization

Simbionix • ViewRay • Vitality Distributing • Within3

Healthcare in Ohio Fast Facts

Ohio is ranked in the top

10 in biotechnology

On average,

In 2010, Ohio ranked

10th in the United

Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve

strength by Business Facilities.

States in attracting research funding from the

National Institutes of Health

16 Ohio hospitals are named in “America's Best Hospitals,” a list compiled by U.S. News & World Report

59 bioscience companies a year

establish their facilities in Ohio

University and the University of Cincinnati’s medical

school research programs rank in the nation’s top 50.

Company Highlights From Select JumpStart Portfolio Companies

CardioInsight Technologies Inc. is commercializing

CoverMyMeds has developed web- and phone-

a technology that can help guide the treatment

based tools that automate Prior Authorization (PA)

of heart disease, the number one cause of death

submissions for all drugs and all health insurance

in the United States. The company’s patented

plans. PA and other Coverage Determination

Electrocardiographic Mapping technology

forms are required after coverage of a patient’s

non-invasively generates 3D images of the

prescription has been rejected by their health

electrical activity of the heart by combining body

plan. Before CoverMyMeds, submitting PAs was a

surface electrical data with 3D anatomical data

manual and expensive process, and documents

obtained from CT scans. The real-time, whole

were sometimes never submitted, leaving

heart images of the electrical activity on the

patients without their necessary medication.

surface of the heart help physicians improve the

CoverMyMeds’ software tools cut the process

treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and congestive

Cervilenz Inc. is the manufacturer and distributor

to less than five minutes, a time reduction

heart failure. CardioInsight has conducted 275

of CerviLenz®— a simple, disposable medical

of at least 70 percent. CoverMyMeds and

patient studies, the results of which have been

device that measures cervical length in pregnant

RelayHealth recently joined forces to integrate

published in leading peer-reviewed journals and

women. Pregnant women with a short cervix

PA requirements into the electronic pharmacy

have demonstrated the technology's ability to

are at high risk of preterm birth and new

insurance claim system, making the process

guide treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure.

research shows that progesterone therapy during

even easier and faster.

CardioInsight has raised more than $10 million

pregnancy can dramatically reduce the rate of

and is preparing for commercial launch of its

For more information visit covermymeds.com.

preterm birth in pregnant women with a short

system in Europe in 2011, followed by a launch in

cervix. A quick, easy CerviLenz measurement

the United States in 2012.

identifies women with a short cervix who may

For more information visit ecgimaging.com.

need progesterone therapy or other high risk care. Prematurity is the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality in the United States, affecting 12 percent of pregnancies. The estimated annual cost of prematurity is $26.2 billion in healthcare and related costs.

For more information visit cervilenz.com.