Hormone Therapeutics, a telemedicine company using comprehensive testing for personal and employee health optimization, won the Launchpad Innovative Health Startup competition for employee wellness at the national Art and Science Health Promotional Conference. 

Hormone Therapeutics Launchpad Victory Photo – Hunter Howard, Mike Motta, Mark Correia, Margaret Moore, John Harris, Michael ODonnell, Mary Gillis, James Hummer

Link to D CEO Healthcare article on Hormone Therapeutics Launchpad win

Launchpad Health and Employee Wellness Innovative Startup competition

The 27th annual conference was held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO, with 1,500 healthcare professionals in attendance. Since 1989, the Art and Science Health Promotional Conference has aimed to narrow the gap between research and practice by “stimulating dialogue and engendering lasting relationship between practitioners and scientists.” The startup competition is held each year to promote recognize innovative health and wellness companies.  Five finalists were selected to present to the audience and judges for the final stage of the competition.

“Winning this innovative healthcare startup competition was exciting to validate our strategy around a brand new approach to employee wellness and performance,” said Hormone Therapeutics CEO Hunter Howard.  Our platform provides access to world-class testing, and physicians, in the home or office to optimize employee health and drive corporate performance.  We launched a little over a year ago with a direct to consumer telemedicine model around the Hormone Replacement Therapy service line and kept adding service lines.  We provide remote testing and can now send a nurse to any home, or office, in the country for genetic DNA testing, personalized food nutrigenomics, exercise physiology, blood, saliva, biome, telomere tests.  We call this our 360 degree Health and Personal Optimization platform allowing us to expand to employee and concierge wellness.

Extending C-Suite Employee Wellness to entire company

Hormone Therapeutics highlighted an innovated approach to Employee Wellness extending the level of care previously only extended to the C-Suite throughout the organization.  The Hormone Therapeutics team illustrated how corporations are spending $5,000 to $25,000 per executive per year sending C-level executives to wellness destinations boutiques like the Mayo, Cooper and Cleveland Clinics for annual two day checkups.  These intensive programs give a great snapshot of the executives health on that day and then they are sent home with a list of items to work on and seen again the next year.  The judges commented that the remote monitoring for personalized health and performance optimization could really change how we view employee wellness strategies. 

The Hormone Therapeutics approach takes all of the same tests as the world-renowned organizations except for on-site MRI, cardiac stress and VO2 max and brings the rest to the corporation or even employee home for a fraction of the cost.  The cost savings allows companies to extend this executive wellness plan throughout the organization.  As important, Hormone Therapeutics national network of telemedicine physicians and lifestyle coaches work with the employees throughout the year with quarterly quantitative tests and goals and qualitative self evaluations rather than a one annual health snapshot. 

Winning this innovative healthcare startup competition was exciting to validate our strategy around a brand new approach to employee wellness and performance.  Our platform provides access to world-class testing, and physicians, in the home or office to optimize employee health and drive corporate performance.  We launched a little over a year ago with a direct to consumer telemedicine model around the Hormone Replacement Therapy service line and kept adding service lines.  We provide remote testing and can now send a nurse to any home, or office, in the country for genetic DNA testing, personalized food nutrigenomics, exercise physiology, blood, saliva, biome, telomere tests. We call this our 360 degree Health and Personal Optimization platform which allowed us to expand beyond individuals to employers.