HEARTio wins first place and $75,000 at the Tulane Business Model Competition.

Heart Input Output Inc. (DBA HEARTio)—a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and at a fraction the cost—is pleased to announced that it has won first place, and a cash reward of $75,000, in the Tulane Business Model Competition. HEARTio was selected the top of 123 team applications, 6 semi-finalists, and 3 finalists. The competition was filled with ventures that had amazing ideas and commercialization strategies.

HEARTio wanted to take a moment to thank Tulane University, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, and all of the administration, judges, and volunteers. All helped to make sure this competition ran smoothly, and made sure that meaningful and engaging questions were asked.

New Orleans was an amazing time - we’ll be back on Bourbon Street soon !

More info can be found here.

Founders of HEARTio are recognized as "Student Innovators of the Year" by the University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship presented its 2022 Celebration of Innovation on April 21, 2022. This event recognizes the achievements of Pitt faculty and student innovators who are seeking to improve people’s lives through the commercialization of their ideas and discoveries.

The founders of Heart Input Output Inc. (DBA HEARTio)—a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and at a fraction the cost—were recognized during this 2022 Celebration as winners of the Student Innovators of the Year. HEARTio is very honored to recognized for one being one of the great student led efforts out of the University of Pittsburgh.

For more info on the celebration, and all the other amazing winners, please visit: https://www.innovation.pitt.edu/2022/04/celebration-of-innovation-recognizes-accomplishments-of-pitt-innovators/

HEARTio wins first place and $50,000 at the Baylor New Venture Competition.

Heart Input Output Inc. (DBA HEARTio)—a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and at a fraction the cost—is pleased to announced that it has won first place, and a cash reward of $50,000, in the Baylor New Venture Competition. HEARTio was selected the top of 200+ team applications, 50 semi-finalists in Round 1, and 10 finalists in Round 2. The competition was filled with ventures that are sure to change the world.

HEARTio wanted to take a moment to thank Baylor University, and all of the coaches, mentors, judges, and volunteers. All helped to make sure this competition ran swiftly and helped to hone our narrative, messaging, and presentation style.

We hope to be back in the great city of Waco, Texas soon!

HEARTio to present at European Society of Cardiology

HEARTio’s recent abstract “Deep learning algorithm predicts angiographic coronary artery disease in stable patients using only a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram” was recently accepted to be presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress from Friday, August 27 to Monday, August 30. More information on the event can be found here. After the Congress, the abstract will be published in the European Heart Journal online supplemental.

HEARTio wins first place and $25,000 in the Liftoff PGH Ideation Competition.

Liftoff PGH was virtual for its inaugural conference and took place over two weeks, including renowned speakers like: Shankar Vedantam, host of NPR's podcast “Hidden Brain”; and Dr. Vivian S. Lee, the President of Health Platforms for Verily Life Sciences (an Alphabet Company). The conference focused on health innovation, with an Ideathon advertised for pre-professional, university, and recently graduated students. As described on competition website, “This is not about incremental change. We are looking for bold solutions that chart a new future for health.” HEARTio decided to bring it’s A-game. 

HEARTio—a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and at a fraction the cost—applied to the Liftoff PGH Ideation competition back in May of this year. Facing stiff competition, HEARTio made it through the semi-finals and were offered a finals slot to live-pitch on December 15. 

HEARTio is pleased to announce that it won first place in the competition, winning the grand prize of $25,000. 

 We would like to thank our mentors for helping us craft our pitch and refine our narrative: Dr. Lynne Porter and Charlie Schaller. Also, all of this would not have been possible without the diligent work and planning of the conference: Megan Butler, Natalie Stewart, and Mara Leff, along with many others from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. 

For more information about Liftoff PGH, please visit: https://liftoffpgh.org

HEARTio is also heavily featured in an article about the competition in the Pittsburgh Business Times: https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2020/12/15/pittsburgh-healthcare-startup-wins-ideathon.html

HEARTio wins the ISMICS Subramanian Innovation Award Competition

ISMICS (the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery) has selected HEARTio as the winner of its annual innovation competition. Though the presentation was virtual this time around due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HEARTio is invited to attend the annual ISMICS meeting in Warsaw, Poland in 2021 to give an update about the progress of HEARTio. We thank Dr. Valavanur A. Subramanian and everyone else who had a hand in making this possible.

HEARTio considered "Most-VC Backable Startup" at Regional Venture Capital Investment Competition (VINC).

HEARTio’s very own Michael Leasure presented at the regional Venture Capital Investment and was considered the most backable startup by student venture teams. He will again pitch at the finals at UNC Chapel Hill, NC on March 28, 2020.

HEARTio looking to "polish" off its message for the ISMICS annual meeting in Warsaw.

HEARTio, and it’s abstract “Non-invasive Detection Of Anatomical Coronary Stenosis Via Deep Learning Analysis Of Resting Ekg Waveforms”, has been accepted as a finalist to the 2020 Subramanian Innovation Award at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) annual meeting.

The Presentation will take place on Thursday, 4 June from 11:30-12:15 in Warsaw, Poland.

HEARTio 'Rome-ing' around Italy for the FAIML Conference

Congrats to Mazen Megahed on the acceptance of his paper: “Localization of Myocardial Infarction from 12 Lead ECG Empowered with Novel Machine Learning” to the 2019 Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning conference held in Rome, Italy from July 26-28 at the Barceló Aran Mantegna Hotel. Join us in cheering him on during his presentation on the main floor!

HEARTio blasts off to Houston!

HEARTio has been accepted as a finalist in the 2019 Rice Business Plan Competition.

The competition is among the most prestigious startup competitions in the world, with 42 representatives from the top Universities globally.

HEARTio is one of three teams in the Greater Pittsburgh invited to attend, and the lone representative from the University of Pittsburgh.

This will serve as a great opportunity to showcase a solution to one of the world’s deadliest problems.

Rice Business Plan Competition is held April 4-6 at the Rice Memorial Center; details can be found here

Interest in HEARTio Begins to "Elevate"

HEARTio, a medical technology start-up in Pittsburgh, has made it into the final round of 3 startup competitions! Join us as we showcase how we're reprogramming cardiovascular health. 

• McGinnis Venture Competition (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • March 27, Tepper School of Business in GSIA, Room 322, 1pm

• Randall Family Big Idea Competition (University of Pittsburgh)

  • March 29, Charity Randall Theatre
    4301 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, 4pm

• Medical Capital Innovation Competition (Cleveland, Ohio)

Pittsburgh based start-up begins to find a rhythm

HEARTio, a medical technology start-up in Pittsburgh, has partnered with the Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia (CCP), America’s largest independent cardiac care practice, to undertake clinical trials and customer discovery. The start-up’s Unique Machine-Aided-Matrix Algorithm (UMMA) will be pitted against three of the world’s top ECG interpreters. The HEARTio team aims to fill a serious gap in the current healthcare environment; by leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, they hope to offer affordable and personalized diagnostics that reduce turnaround and increase availability.

HEARTio to speak on "Lessons Learned as Medical Device Entrepreneurs"

HEARTio will be hosted by 4th River Solutions on November 6th, 2017 in Benedum Hall Room 226 from 5-6PM on Pitt's Campus. Utkars Jain, CEO and Adam Butchy, CSO will speak on the lessons learned in developing a biotechnology company.

What does it really take to turn an idea into a reality? What goes into forming a startup company? How do you get a new medical device onto the market? Come and find out! 

You can RSVP here.

HEARTio Receives Human Exemption from IRB to Conduct Clinical Trial

UMMA (Unique Machine-aided Matrix Algorithm) is the state of the art in classifying cardiac events from just 10 seconds of ECG data. HEARTio has received clearance to perform analysis, using UMMA, on large amounts of ECG data from de-identified patients. 

Utkars Jain, CEO, says "this is a great step forward to validate what we already know: that UMMA classifies ECGs in ways that are much faster, efficient, and accurate than what is going to be on the market"