RightCare Solutions takes first place in the Venture Finals at 14th Wharton Business Plan Competition [VIDEO]

Eric Heil (left) and Matt Tanzer (right) of RightCare Solutions display their first place plaque.

RightCare Solutions, a hospital discharge decision support system, won first place and more than $30,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the Venture Finals of the fourteenth annual Wharton Business Plan Competition yesterday.

Team members Eric Heil, Mrinal Bhasker and Matt Tanzer designed an algorithm to help hospitals evaluate which patients are at high risk of hospital readmission and improve or target their care. Only Heil and Tanzer were on hand at the event in Jon Huntsman Hall to accept the award.

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Friday Q&A: Shawn Glisson of Boost Mobile

You already know the prepaid market is thick and crowded.

That’s particularly the case for Philadelphia, the largest market in the country that has opened the floodgates to no-contract, unlimited plans, as you can well guess by the advertisements from Metro PCS, Cricket Wireless and Boost Mobile that line SEPTA trains.

As Verizon and AT&T take hold of valued contracted customers, T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel, the parent of Boost, are fighting over lower-margin prepaid plans, so the fight is only spreading.

The competition has at times raged hotly, as even Shawn Glisson, a Boost PR spokesman can admit. But then, Glisson, who had a run with former legendary West Chester electronics and 1980s home computer innovator Commodore International, knows a thing or two about Philadelphia.

He’s now based in the Irvine, Calif. headquarters of Boost, now an arm of Sprint-Nextel, but after the jump, he handicaps the prepaid battle in Philly, tells us what’s next for the market and says something nice about Cricket.

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