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Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards 2020: Health and Wellness Finalists and Honorable Mentions

Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards 2020: Health and Wellness Finalists and Honorable Mentions

Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices to treatments. Read about the winner: an at-home medical test startup that may soon have approval for a home test for COVID-19.

FINALISTS

Abortion Care Finder, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
ActisteBrighter
BilikitLittle Sparrows Technologies
ClearUp Sinus Pain Relief, Tivic Health
Eko Core Digital StethoscopeEko
The Grandbaby PlanFuture Family
Henry Rose, Henry Rose
Piccolo OccluderAbbott
Point ArenaBetter Place Forests
Trial RecommenderDeep 6 AI
VocsnVentec Life Systems
Walgreens Mental Health First Aid Training, Walgreens Boots Alliance
World’s first drone delivery of a human organ for transplant, AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation

HONORABLE MENTION

1636 Clark Drive, Vancouver, HDR
3D-printed orthoticsHP and iOrthotics
Acorn BiolabsAcorn Biolabs
AcrySof IQ PanOptixAlcon
Activated SilkEvolved By Nature
AmavaAmava
The Axonics SystemAxonics Modulation Technologies
Blinq vision scannerRebion
The Carrot CardCarrot Fertility
CiitizenCiitizen
Consent Pack, BBDO Argentina
Critical Care SuiteGE Healthcare
Da Vinci Fountain FaucetNasoni
Deaf 911 Mobile AppDeaf 911, an outreach of St. Ann’s for the Deaf
Disease Prevention MapsFacebook
EsemblyEsembly
FloWater Aluminum Water Bottle, FloWater
Genome editing for induced pluripotent stem cellsSynthego
GN Hearing Aids With Audio StreamingGN Hearing
GRITIBM Federal
Guardant360 Blood-First InitiativeGuardant Health
HerediGene Population StudyIntermountain Healthcare
Ion Torrent Genexus SystemThermo Fisher Scientific
iQ VetButterfly Network
IsoSpeakIsoPlexis
KinsaKinsa
LAC+USC Restorative Care VillageLos Angeles County Department of Mental Health
MedModularEIR Healthcare
Gemura Food for All ProjectSolid’Africa
Mill Pond IlluminationsD2 Creative and Mill Pond Communications
OrchardOrchard
Osso VR, Osso VR
+RNAinsightAmbry Genetics
SafelyYouSafelyYou
ShareThymeRed Badger
Silent Whistle, Samsung
Street-by-Street Air Quality MapsPlume Labs
Sweetgreen in SchoolsSweetgreen
Thompson Autism Center at Children’s Hospital of Orange CountyCannonDesign
Venue GoGE Healthcare
The Voyage Neuroprotection SystemVoyage Biomedical
Well Health National Immunization CampaignsWell Health
WeWALK Smart CaneWeWALK Technology