This class, which includes 14 companies, has raised a total of $13.9 million outside of the funding from Rock Health, and all of the accelerator’s portfolio companies have raised $43 million, with an average of $900,000 per startup. Rock Health initially gave startups $20,000 in funding, but was then joined by Kleiner Perkins last August to increase funding per startup by another $100,000.

Among the companies that presented Wednesday at UCSF’s campus in San Francisco, here were some of my favorites that you might want to check out:

• Eligible helps doctors submit forms to insurance companies to make sure they’ll get paid for procedures before performing them and then submit paperwork afterward. Eligible charges a fee for use, and the platform integrates different programming languages and systems through the company’s product. Eligible has raised $1.5 million in funding so far.
• OpenPlacement works to improve the process of pairing up seniors and senior care providers in the Bay Area. The company helps consumers analyze the offerings and costs for each provider, and then pick providers based on their individual needs.
• Wellframe allows doctors to connect with their patients to provide out of office care through mobile apps after patients have been discharged from the hospital. It’s a Boston-based company that lets a doctor monitor patient care from a distance and check in when intervention is necessary. The company says that it uses “mobile technology and artificial intelligence to translate clinical protocols into personalized, adaptive to-do lists.”
• Wildflower Health works to improve the health of pregnant mothers and lower health care costs by flagging potential complications much earlier in pregnancy through real time updates and mobile apps. The company provides a mobile platform for pregnant women, letting them check out their progress toward delivery and alerting them to options existing from their health care providers.
• Zipongo targets consumer diets. The company has created a product called GroceryRx that works with major grocery chains to provide users with both recipes and tips for discounts and deals. The recipes are aimed at helping consumers eat more healthfully, targeting particular diet areas where they can change their habits. The company has raised $2 million in seed funding so far and is looking to raise more.

Other companies from the batch that GigaOM has previously covered (Rock Health announced this current class back in October), include Beam Technologies, which makes connected toothbrushes, Mango Health, which does gamified mobile health apps, Wello, the video platform that lets users work out from home via webcam, and LabDoor, which helps users understand what’s in their supplements and vitamins.

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It sounds too incredible to be true, but co-founders and spouses Yukkee and Ming-Zher Poh said the product has been peer-reviewed in scientific publications and produces results that come within 3 beats per minute of those from a clinical pulse oximeter, the medical standard Cardiio would compete with. A clinical pulse oximeter measures both heart rate and blood oxygen saturation levels through direct contact with the skin and an LED light source, Ming-Zher explained. The Cardiio app, in contrast, works remotely and uses ambient light around the user.

The company explains how the technology works on its site:

Every time your heart beats, more blood is pumped into your face. This slight increase in blood volume causes more light to be absorbed, and hence less light is reflected from your face. Using sophisticated software, your iPhone’s front camera can track these tiny changes in reflected light that are not visible to the human eye and calculate your heart beat!

Users can download the paid app for iPhone or iPad in the Apple iTunes App Store beginning on Thursday for $4.99. After a user downloads the app, they hold the iPhone or iPad up to their face in a well-lit area, hold steady for a few seconds, and receive their resting heart rate. Users can save the number to the app, tracking their progress over time and measuring the impact of stressful life events on their heart rate.

The app does not currently have FDA approval, meaning it couldn’t be used in hospitals or doctor’s offices, only by consumers in the health and wellness space, Ming-Zher said. But as the creators of a connected toothbrush learned, FDA involvement in health-related apps or products can be an unknown factor.

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