What You Should Know: - KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the completion of its Series A funding round following new investments from Ziegler and two additional health systems. This expanded backing brings KeyCare's total Series A raise to over $27 million. - These investors join 8VC, LRVHealth, Bold Capital, and Spectrum Health Ventures in support of KeyCare's mission to improve patient access, expand
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CVS Health’s Former Chief Strategy Officer Joins VC Firm, LRVHealth
What You Should Know: - LRVHealth, the inside healthcare venture capital platform, announced that Josh Flum joined the firm as a managing partner. Prior to joining LRV Health, Flum served as Chief Strategy Officer and Business Developer Officer at CVS Health. - Flum joins a diverse team of healthcare operators, entrepreneurs, investors and insiders leading healthcare innovation and transformation alongside a network of strategic limited partners that touches half of all
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Upfront Raises Additional $10M for Automated Patient Navigation & Engagement Platform
What You Should Know: - Upfront Healthcare, a leading omnichannel communication, and patient engagement platform raise an additional $10M co-led by Baird Capital, Echo Health Ventures and First Trust Capital Partners, with additional participation from existing investors including LRVHealth, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and Nashville Capital Network. - As market demand surges for patient engagement solutions, the investment bolsters Upfront's trajectory of market leadership through
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KeyCare Raises $24M for Epic-Integrated Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know: - KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the closing of $24 million in series A funding. - The funding was backed by 8VC, LRVHealth, Bold Capital, and Spectrum Health Ventures. Expanding Horizons in Healthcare Using Virtual Care Platforms KeyCare offers health systems the ability to easily augment their care teams, optimize capacity, and widen their digital front doors by partnering with a nationwide network of
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Greater Good Health Raises $10M for NP-Centered Primary Care Model
What You Should Know: - Greater Good Health, the company redefining value-based care through the first primary care model centered around nurse practitioners (NPs) raises $10 million funding round led by LRVHealth, with participation from Martin Ventures, Health Velocity Capital and more. - Committed to providing NPs with the tools they need to be successful, Greater Good Health offers access to a network of peers, training and development content and personal wellness experiences. The
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Story Health Secures $22.6M for AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care Platform Across Cardiology
What You Should Know: - Story Health, a health technology and services company that extends specialty care into patient’s homes raises $22.6M in Series A funding co-led by Northpond Ventures and B Capital Group. The round also included participation from new investor LRVHealth and existing investors Define Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing the company’s total funding to approximately $27M. - The Story Health platform empowers specialists through intelligent embedded clinical software
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Cerner Invests in Xealth to Jointly Develop Digital Health Solutions for Clinicians
What You Should Know: - Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to digital health tools. - These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation. - Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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Activ Surgical Raises $15M Advance Autonomous and Collaborative Surgery
What You Should Know: - Digital surgery pioneer Activ Surgical raises $15M in funding led by ARTIS Ventures to accelerate U.S. commercialization and European expansion efforts for its ActiveEdge platform, which enables existing surgical systems, from scopes to robots, to visualize, characterize and track tissue, in real-time beyond today’s human capability. - ActivSight, is an easy-to-adapt, connected imaging module that seamlessly attaches to today’s laparoscopic and arthroscopic
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Google Appoints Karen DeSalvo As First-Ever Chief Health Officer
- Google appoints former ONC chief Dr. Karen DeSalvo as the company’s first-ever Chief Health Officer to further establish its aggressive movement in the healthcare market. - In her new role as Chief Health Officer, she will report to former Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg. Dr. Karen DeSalvo, who served as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) during the Obama administration has been appointed by Google to serve as the
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Datica, Sansoro Health Merge to Offer Self-Service Platform for Cloud-based Healthcare Apps
Sansoro Health, Inc. and Datica Health, LLC announced today they have merged, offering a self-service platform for securing cloud-based applications and integrating patient data from multiple sources. The combined company is solving these problems today for an impressive list of customers; including Johnson & Johnson, VigiLanz, Vineti, and more.Healthcare’s Rapid Migration to the CloudHealthcare is rapidly migrating to the cloud. Healthcare cloud spend will grow from $24 billion this year to
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