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Health Tech Competition Winners

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For the past decade at AHA’s Scientific Sessions, leading digital health, health tech, and AI companies have taken the stage to pitch innovations in heart and brain health.

Presenting to a panel of distinguished judges, including top physicians, industry leaders, and VIPs, these companies compete in the AHA Health Tech Competition.

The competition takes place in the Health Innovation Pavilion, the pulse of the Science & Technology Hall, where breakthrough ideas meet real-world impact.

2025 Health Tech Competition Winners

2025 Health Tech Competition - Overall Winner

2025 Health Tech Competition -  Overall Winner

PolyVascular placed first in the Best Business Pitch category for its minimally invasive pulmonary valve and delivery system to help children with congenital heart disease avoid repeated open-heart surgeries. The company will receive membership to the Center for Health Technology & Innovation Innovators’ Network , a consortium that connects entrepreneurs, providers, researchers and payers to advance cardiovascular and brain health.

2025 Health Tech Competition - Best Science Pitch

2025 Health Tech Competition - Best Science Pitch

Brainomix won Best Science Pitch for its artificial intelligence-powered software designed to help doctors make faster, more accurate treatment decisions for stroke and lung fibrosis. This recognition opens opportunities for the company to connect with scientific and business leaders after Scientific Sessions.

Past Winners

2024 Powerful Medical - Overall Winner and Science Category Winner

Powerful Medical, seeks to augment physicians and care teams in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases using AI tools. This innovative technology was selected as the winner based on the validity of the working prototype, scientific rigor and potential impact on patient outcomes.

2024 HekaHeart - Business Category Winner

HekaHeart’s Virtual Heart Failure Clinic is an AI-driven care platform designed exclusively for heart failure management, focused on the initiation and optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT), volume management, patient engagement, and remote monitoring.

2023 RCE Technologies, Inc.

RCE Technologies, Inc. (RCE) is an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) based medical technology company dedicated to early heart attack detection.

2022 AvoMD

A no-code software platform that transforms clinical content — guidelines, algorithms, pathways and checklists — into “virtual clinical consults” available instantly at the point-of-care on standalone web/mobile apps and in the electronic health records.

Forest Devices

2019 Forest Devices, Inc.

Forest Devices is a medical device startup located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are the creators of ALPHASTROKE, the first stroke and Large Vessel Occlusion (LVO) detection device that can potentially be used by first responders to triage patients directly to the right hospital.

Eko

2018 Eko Devices

Eko brings together advanced stethoscopes and intelligent detection software. Our mission is to help clinicians detect early signs of heart and lung disease with greater confidence for timely intervention and exceptional patient care.

Procyrion

2017 Procyrion

AortixTM is a percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) device designed to treat heart failure patients who are too sick for medication alone.

twiage

2016 Twiage

The idea behind Twiage came at a healthcare hackathon when an EMT and physician shared each other's frustration regarding the chaotic state of pre-hospital communication and the lack of preparation from hospitals for EMS arrivals. They saw...

Constant Therapy

2015 Constant Therapy

Constant Therapy believes that large scale data and AI, which has augmented our lives in other areas, can support us when we need it most: to help the brain recover from injury or decline, and to inform new advances in brain health. Today they ...

2025 CarePlan Challenge Champions

ConneQT Health

A mobile, CarePlan-guided wellness program that connects daily tasks, biometrics, and personalized goals to help patients build heart-healthy habits and give clinicians better visibility.

Porter Health

A web tool that combines one-click PREVENT and CKM risk scores with an LLM-assisted, expert-vetted CarePlan tailored to each patient and ready for use on any device.

OneVillage

A virtual cardio-primary care platform for women that turns CarePlans and PREVENT risk into an 80-day guided pathway combining clinical visits, rehab, education, and daily tracking.