Health startup accelerator Healthbox announced its second Boston class this morning, in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The new program is four weeks longer than previous iterations, and the new Boston class has already completed a two-week bootcamp designed “to help them increase their industry knowledge, improve value propositions and refine business models,” according to a release.

“The boot camp helps our companies think carefully about how to both approach the overall accelerator experience, refining their value proposition to the marketplace,” says Nina Nashif, founder and CEO of Healthbox. “This is an exceptional class of entrepreneurs that truly span the diverse challenges facing the industry, from wellness and prevention through end-of-life wishes. We’re excited to see their continued transformation throughout the remaining 14 weeks.”

Nashif was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Here’s a summary of the new Boston class:

• 3Derm Systems offers a low-cost skin monitoring solution, allowing patients to take two-and three-dimensional images of concerning lesions at home before being digitally reviewed by a dermatologist.
• Caring in Place is a platform that allows users to coordinate care of an individual among family and friends while also discovering and utilizing local services.
• Casagem provides tablet-based data collection and data-processing tools for the homecare industry. These tools will allow underutilized homecare nurses and support workers to complete mandatory on-site homecare forms via tablet, thus improving the precision of data collection and optimizing provider involvement.
• Cellanyx is developing a biomarker-based diagnostic urine test to determine oncogenic and metastatic potential for prostate tumors.
• Epion delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic tablet solution that transforms the expensive and inefficient paper-based intake and discharge processes to a far less expensive, more accurate mobile digital solution.
• Hospitalytics is an analytical software to improve operating room (OR) efficiency by predicting booking trends and enabling OR managers to delegate surgery appointments and staffing accordingly.
• Lean Wagon provides a wellness coaching program that includes interactive online workshops offered to the employees of participating companies.
• MyProxy is developing a web-based platform that enables patients to create, update and share healthcare proxies and advance directives for end-of-life care.
• Sensing Strip is a device that integrates thin film sensing electronics with kinesiology tape. This “electronic sensing tape” can be placed anywhere on the patient’s body, where it will sense and wirelessly transmit real-time ambulatory, cardiac, respiratory or a variety of other data to a smart phone or tablet.
• Theravid is a customizable web-application geared toward improving physical therapy adherence in the home.

Participants in the program receive $50,000 in seed funding, along with mentorship and training. I covered the last Healthbox Boston class here.

Between Healthbox and Rock Health, another accelerator, the support for health and, in particular, health IT startups has improved dramatically in the past year in Boston. That’s one of just many reasons why I’m optimistic about the sector’s role in the local ecosystem. (TechStars gets credit for graduating multiple health companies last class, too.)

Meanwhile, the last round of Healthbox Boston companies are picking up traction, with firms like Gweepi and Smart Scheduling raising seed capital. Stay tuned to see what this next class gets up to, and if you think any of the above sound particularly promising, let me know in the comments.