A non-invasive bladder monitor, software to combat lung cancer, and an app that identifies high-risk sexual behavior in adolescents are three technologies being developed right here in the Denver area. The three companies took the top awards at the recent Prime Health Challenge $150,000 competition that started with 30 contestants.

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Littleton’s dBMEDx won the $75,000 top prize for its BBS Revolution, a device that scans a person’s bladder to determine volume — and nix the invasive catheter. Denver’s Matrix Analytics (now Eon), awarded $50,000 for its second-place finish, collects data to optimize care of patients with lung cancer. In third place was $25,000-winner Preventative Technology Solutions, a Loveland app developer that takes youth’s responses and combines it with a research-based algorithm to determine eight levels of sexual risk.

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But beyond the fun of a contest with cash awards, Prime Health also awarded pilots to five companies. The organization works with major healthcare firms including Colorado Health Foundation, DaVita and Kaiser Permanente to mentor local health startups and nurture the state’s digital health ecosystem.

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Separately, Prime Health also hosted a health challenge during Tuesday’s MGMA 2016 conference in San Francisco. Four Denver-area companies and one from New Mexico made it to the finals.Those companies include RxAssurance in Denver, Test Appropriate in Centennial, CirrusMD in Denver, C3LX in Westminster and Seamless Medical Systems in Santa Fe, N.M. Seamless was declared the winner.

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