What You Should Know:
– Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology platform announced a strategic collaboration with and investment from American Heart Association Ventures™, the venture capital arm of the American Heart Association®. Both organizations share a commitment to improving patient outcomes by better aligning incentives between providers and patients.
– Auxira, initially co-developed by MedStar Health and Abundant Venture Partners, launched earlier this year to address the growing workload on cardiology care teams. With 10,000 Americans aging into Medicare each day, the need for cardiac care has surged, but physician shortages and rising administrative burdens are straining practices.
American Heart Association Ventures’ Studio Red
Auxira received an investment from American Heart Association Ventures’ Studio Red, an incubator that fosters early-stage heart and brain health ideas to bring groundbreaking science to life. As a co-creator and major shareholder of Auxira, Studio Red is playing an integral role in shaping Auxira’s early strategy by leveraging American Heart Association assets and expertise. The Studio Red team continues to consult and provide proprietary training, outcomes measurement, and deep cardiology expertise to help ensure Auxira’s model succeeds in solving real-world pain points for clinicians and patients alike.
Lisa Suennen, Managing Partner, American Heart Association Ventures, stated, “Auxira Health represents the kind of high-impact innovation that Studio Red was created to support. Clinicians are a key constituency of our organization, and Auxira’s model squarely addresses their challenges: relieving administrative strain, improving patient access and ultimately delivering better cardiovascular care. We’re proud to have helped co-create a business that aligns incentives across patients and providers, creating a win-win model that raises the standard of care.”
Auxira’s Precision-Matched Clinical Pods
Auxira’s model deploys precision-matched clinical pods—composed of advanced practice providers (APPs), medical assistants (MAs), and registered nurses (RNs)—that embed virtually into a cardiology practice’s existing workflow. These expert teams manage administrative and lower-acuity clinical tasks, enabling cardiologists to focus on complex, high-value care without the need to expand headcount or overhaul their technology infrastructure.
The model has already demonstrated success with MedStar Health. The health system reported several improvements, including:
- Improved new and established patient appointment availability, including time to new patient appointments.
- An increase in relative value units (RVUs) per patient seen by the cardiologist.
- An improvement in top box Press Ganey patient experience scores.
- A 35% reduction in after-hours EHR time.
“At Auxira, we are committed to helping cardiology practices thrive by restoring joy and balance to how care teams operate,” said Inna Plumb, Co-founder and CEO of Auxira Health. “Studio Red has been an exceptional collaborator, bringing unmatched insight into how cardiology practices function and helping us design a model that is not only clinically rigorous but also deeply human-centered.”
Following its official launch, Auxira is rapidly expanding nationally and is currently onboarding additional health systems to deploy its solution.
