2025

Track & Award Category Information

Our awards program recognizes pioneering healthcare innovations globally.

Rising Stars & Best In Class Awards

The 2025 Awards Season spotlights our Rising Star and Best in Class winners, honoring their potential as the next big companies in excellence and innovation, while paying tribute to the continued innovation and impact of our Best in Class companies in digital health.

Rising Stars

  • have less than 50 employees or FTEs
  • were founded in past five years (2019 or later)
  • have product that is in market or market trials (FDA approval, but not a requirement)
  • have referenceable customers (customers’ quotes or video testimonials is recommended)
  • is currently or is projecting minimum of $500,000 in sales or ARR by the end of 2024
  • have typically raised a seed or series A round
Each company can only submit one entry in the best-fit category.

Best in Class

  • have at least one in-market solution and can demonstrate significant growth, solid traction and existing customers
  • have 50 or more employees or FTEs
  • have typically raised the average Series B or beyond
While companies are encouraged to submit only one entry in the best-fit category, a maximum of two entries will be considered if there are multiple distinctive product lines. A company can only reach the finalist round in one category.

PLEASE NOTE: We offer the track criteria as suggested guidelines, not mandatory requirements, to help companies decide which track is holistically the best fit for their company.

2025 AWARD CATEGORIES

Clinical Diagnostic Device

for use at clinic or provider location
formerly Provider Diagnostic

A digital diagnostic technology for point-of-care monitoring that can significantly improve decision-making in the clinical setting. This technology can not be used outside of care facilities or administered by patients themselves.

Consumer Wellness & Prevention

Digital health solutions focused on preventing illness, promoting proactive health management, and enabling early detection. This includes AI-powered diagnostics, virtual coaching, and at-home monitoring tools such as wearables and remote testing kits. These products and services empower individuals to take control of their health and address potential issues before they become more serious.

Dental/Oral Health

Digital health products, services, and technologies that support the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of oral health conditions. This category includes innovations that enhance patient care and provider efficiency, such as AI-driven diagnostics, robotic-assisted procedures, virtual dental care and personalized treatment planning. Solutions may focus on improving access, streamlining workflows or delivering more precise and proactive dental care.

Food as Medicine

Food and beverages that lead to healthier lifestyle and/or the prevention or management of chronic disease.

Health Equity

Digital health products, services, and experiences that provide a fair opportunity to consumers to attain a high level of health based on their needs.

Best in Class Winner
Homeward
Best in Class Winner
Propeller Health

Home Health Diagnostic & Monitoring

Formerly Remote Diagnostic Device, Platform or Tool

The best remote solution for diagnosing and monitoring patients with health concerns or illness to improve their quality of life as well as help healthcare providers better monitor their patients outside of clinical settings.

Kids Health

Digital health solution targeted to address or improve pediatric or adolescent mental or behavioral health & wellness, based on ease of access to care, clinical validation, proven outcomes, and privacy and security solutions.

Best in Class Winner
GoCheckKids
Best in Class Winner
Hazel Health, Inc.

Longevity

Digital health product or solution targeted at creating progressive ideas to improve the mental, physical, or social-well being and health of people as they age.

Best in Class Winner
Linus Health
Best in Class Winner
Helix

Mental & Behavioral Health

Solutions targeted to address or improve mental or behavioral health & wellness, based on ease of access to care, clinical validation, proven outcomes, as well as privacy and security solutions.

Women's Health

Medical devices, software, therapeutic drugs, consumer products and services, and apps that improves women, female and girls’ health and wellness by addressing conditions that solely, disproportionately, or differently affect them including reproductive, menstrual, sexual, pelvic floor, vaginal, oncological, bone, brain, autoimmune and heart health.

Best in Class Winner
Oura
Rising Stars
EliAspivixOrigin
Best in Class Winner
Carrot Fertility
2019 Winner
Butterfly

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