Abstract Body: AMIA’s Informatics Partnership Council (IPC) is proud to support the AMIA 2019 Pitch IT! Competition, sponsored by AMIA Corporate Member IMO in conjunction with LOF, LLC. Applicants used the online crowd sourcing platform Medstartr (https://www.medstartr.com/pages/AMIA2019) to pitch their innovations in healthcare that use medical and biomedical informatics to improve clinical outcomes, drive down the cost of care, and improve the healthcare experience for patients, care providers, medical professionals and institutions. Join us to see the finalists pitch live for a prize of up $25,000 to fund development of the innovation.

2019 Pitch IT Committee
- John Cai, MD, PhD, FAMIA, Executive Director, Real-world Data Analytics and Innovation, Merck
- Michael Finke, M.Eng. President and Co-Founder M*Modal
- Russ Leftwich, MD, FAMIA, Senior Clinical Advisor, InterSystems
- Eric Agdeppa, MTM, PhD, Executive Director of Innovation, and General Manager Hill Rom
- Eric Puster, DO, Clinical Informatics Fellow, Pediatrics, Regenstrief Institute
- Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD – Chairman and Co-Founder, IMO
- Barbara Rapchak, Vice President Academic Innovation, IMO
- Kathryn Hitchcock, MBA, Director of Industry Partnerships, AMIA

Authors:

Frank Naeymi-Rad (Presenter)
Intelligent Medical Objects