What You Should Know: - Humanity Health, a New York City-based career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Jumpstart Nova with follow-on participation from Deerfield Management. - Humanity Health will use the new funding to expand its base of C-Suite and executive-level leaders who are members of the Humanity Talent Network Advance health equity and innovation through
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Jumpstart Health Launches $55M Venture Fund for Black Founded Health Startups
What You Should Know: - Jumpstart Health Investors, announced this week the launch of Jumpstart Nova, the first venture fund to invest in Black founded and led healthcare innovation companies. - The $55M fund will invest exclusively in Black founder-led healthcare companies across health IT, digital health, tech-enabled services, diagnostic devices, biotech, medical device manufacturing and consumer health and wellness. Why It Matters Marcus Whitney, a leader in healthcare innovation
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Vytalize Health to Acquire Patient Financial Experience Platform MedPilot
What You Should Know: - Vytalize Health to acquire patient financial experience platform MedPilot to accelerate data-driven engagement technology to its ACO's Medicare population. - An alumnus of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, MedPilot’s platform has already helped over 1 million patients to date and boasts a 97% patient satisfaction score. Vytalize Health, a leading provider of value-based healthcare announced it is acquiring MedPilot, a Cleveland-based patient financial
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Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know: - Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability
Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today,
Google Cloud launched the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness
Program, helping organizations achieve data interoperability in advance of
upcoming HHS deadlines and to enable future innovation. Alongside partners like Bain, BCG, Deloitte, HCL,
KPMG, SADA, and more, the Healthcare
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AHA, AVIA Launch Free COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse to Support Members on Front-Line
What You Should Know: - Today the American Hospital Association (AHA) and AVIA, a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations across the country, announced the launch of the COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse. - This online tool, free to AHA members, will enable 5,000 hospitals across the country to determine the types of digital tools they need immediately to confront COVID-19 clinically and operationally and provide guidance on how they can scale the new solutions they
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Patient Financial Engagement Startup MedPilot Raises $1.5M to Fuel Expansion
- Patient financial engagement startup MedPilot raises $1.5M in funding to fuel its next stage of growth, bringing its total to date to $3.6M. - MedPilot’s patient financial relationship platform transforms patient billing through customized outreach tailored to people's preferences. MedPilot, a
Cleveland, OH-based patient financial engagement company announced it has
raised $1.5M in funding led by JumpStart, TurnCap, Northcoast Fund, Wavemaker
Three-Sixty Health, Valley Growth
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Cleveland Clinic, JumpStart Partner to Create Biotech/Digital Health-Focused Accelerator
Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. have announced a three-year partnership with Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play to create a new accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation in downtown Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation.As part of the partnership, the three organizations will work together — with support from Ohio Third Frontier and additional institutions and corporations — to attract dozens of U.S. and international biotech/digital health startups to Cleveland
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