NursePitch™
Pitching is a compelling way to inform or persuade and it is part of our natural conversation, even though people may not think of it this way. We pitch our ideas to other people daily because your ideas have value and are worth developing.
2024 NursePitch™
What you need to know about nurses pitching their business and innovation ideas!
This interactive event will feature nurses who want to share their creative solutions and innovations around: a medical device or technology; an organizational or process improvement; a care delivery model; a business, program, service; research; or an educational intervention. If you are interested in participating in the future - more events are being planned!
Want to learn more - read our blog on: How to Pitch: Leave Them Wanting More
NursePitch™ Prizes
- First place - $8,500 (Ilana Borkenstein, BSN, RN, MBA)
- Second place – $2,500 (Patience Gitau, RN, BSN)
- Third place - $1,500 (Dr. Colin Plover)
The American Nurses Association and HIMSS are pleased to showcase NursePitch™. Together, we are working to support nurses who want to take their ideas to the next level through mentorship, prize money, business development, and/or investment.
2024 NursePitch™ winners:
Ilana Borkenstein, BSN, RN, MBA is a nurse-turned-entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of M7 Health. M7 Health is a nursing workforce planning platform that leverages preference data from staff and historical patient volume trends to guide Nurse Leaders in making fair, transparent, and cost-effective staffing decisions. M7 also generates workforce insights that direct Managers in personalizing retention strategies and recruiting more effectively.
Patience Gitau, RN, BSN is the CEO and co-founder of NurseBridge, an innovative medical staffing solution that utilizes AI and machine learning to establish industry-leading standards for pricing, compliance, and scheduling in healthcare staffing. The tech enabled staffing platform connects all the essential steps to proficiently address staffing shortages within the medical industry without the compromise of compliance and affordability for healthcare facilities powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and real time data analytics.
Dr. Colin Plover is a researcher whose experience as a nurse informed his National Science Foundation funded innovative software and data analytics company. This entrepreneurial endeavor involves the application of AI and ML to pressing nursing workforce challenges. The advanced analytics identify relationships between how nursing care is organized and nurse sensitive outcomes. This information provides a research-driven evidence-based approach to nursing operations.
2023 Winners:
Frances Akubuil, DNP, RN
Founder and CEO
matchHHA
Lecresha Sewell, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, SANE
Founder and CEO
Melanated Healthcare
Linda Rowan, RN, BSN
Founder
Impact Wearables
2022 Winners:
Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, MS-CRM, RN
Creator
TrialWear
Pamela Cacchione, PhD, CRNP, BC, FGSA, FAAN
Creator
Heart Failure Monitoring Socks
Ryan Speidel, MSN, MBA, RN, NE-BC
Founder & CEO
Sequential Automated Turning System
Amy Felix, MSN, RN, CRNP
Co-Founder
TrackCE
2021 Winners:
Sigi Marmorstein, RN, MSN, PHN, FNP-BC
Founder & CEO
BabyLiveAdvice, Inc
Carol Rosenberg, ND, DNP, RN
Founder & CEO
Ready.Sim.Go
Jodi Travers, PhD, RN, NE-BC
Ayelet Ruppin-Pham, MN, RN, PHNA-BC
Co-Creators
e-Platform to Support Social Justice in Nursing
2020 Winner:
Bianca Gonzalex, PhD, NP, RN
Founder & CEO
AMPAworks
2019 Winners:
Sangeeta Agarawal, RN, MS
Founder & CEO
Helpsy Health
Lisa Ousley, DNP, FNP
Retha Gentry, DNP, FNP
Candice Nicole Short, DNP, FNP
Co-Creators
Instructiderm, LLC