HealthCure is starting to hit its stride. The Detroit-based healthcare startup has been watching its revenue spike 300 percent over the last year, allowing it to hire a handful of people.
The 5-year-old startup has hired three people over the last year, including an executive, an operations professional, and a field technician. It currently employs 10 people on Detroit's east side in the area of Van Dyke and Lynch Road.
HealthCure specializes in helping hospitals reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections. The startup’s software and expert team works with the medical center to find the best places to prevent infections and help the institution meet Affordable Care Act benchmarks. The idea is to help hospitals avoid penalties by hitting these benchmarks and even go beyond that.
"We want to help hospitals get a bonus (for surpassing the benchmarks)," says Mark Arizmendi, CEO of HealthCure. "We think it can be a source of revenue."
HealthCure, which made the semifinals of last month’s
Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, is currently working with Oakwood Healthcare System on implementing its solutions. It is also planning to add more hospitals to its roster in 2014.
"We are talking to a number of new customers in the healthcare arena right now," Arizmendi says.
Source: Mark Arizmendi, CEO of HealthCure
Writer: Jon Zemke
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