What You Should Know: - Northwell Holdings and Aegis Ventures inked an agreement today for the formation of Upliv, a femtech-based women's virtual care startup that aims to raise the bar for clinical menopause support. - Upliv is the joint creation of Aegis Ventures and Northwell Holdings, the for-profit investment arm of Northwell Health. In April 2022, Aegis Ventures announced the intention to invest at least $100M in seed-stage funds toward the development of joint ventures with
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HCA Makes Strategic Investment in Cardiac Monitoring Wearable VitalConnect
What You Should Know: - VitalConnect®, Inc., a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. - The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who
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Health Note Raises $17M for Pre-Clinical Intake Automation Platform
What You Should Know: - Health Note, the pre-clinical intake automation platform that uses digital patient intake to prepare clinical notes for providers ahead of patient visits, announced the close of a $17M Series A financing round led by SignalFire. SignalFire is joined by UnityPoint Health, Northwell Health Holdings, the for-profit arm of Northwell Health focused on investment in early stage/growth opportunities, strategic partnerships and the cultivation of internal innovations that
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Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health, New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient care, clinician experiences, and to help the health and hospital network operate more efficiently. - Privacy and security will be of the utmost importance in all aspects of this digital transformation. Through the implementation of Google Cloud's reliable infrastructure along with Northwell
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Northwell Invests $10M in Brightline for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Brightline, the category leader in virtual behavioral healthcare for children, adolescents, and families, announced a $10M investment by Northwell Health, New York's largest healthcare provider, bringing its total Series C funding to $115M. - This strategic investment and partnership will create greater access to innovative pediatric mental health services across the New York Metro area at a critical time for families. The Only National One-Stop-Shop
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Northwell Health Selects Teladoc Health to Improve Virtual Care Across Enterprise
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider has signed a partnership agreement with virtual care provider Teladoc Health to deliver connected virtual care and expand care delivery to patients both inside and outside the four walls of the health system. The new enterprise strategy will leverage Teladoc Health’s collaboration with Microsoft, improving clinical teamwork and communication among Northwell clinicians. -
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Northwell Health to Launch Enterprise Patient Engagement Platform at Clinical Sites
What You Should Know: Northwell Health and Playback Health sign multiyear deal to launch patient engagement platform at clinical sites across health system. Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health care provider and Playback Health, a software technology company dedicated to helping care providers build deeper, more meaningful connections with their patients, today announced a multiyear agreement to launch Playback’s patient engagement platform at select locations
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Conversa Health Expands Series B to $20M with Additional $8M in Funding
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises an additional
$8M, expanding its Series B round to $20M for its automated virtual care
platform, totaling $34M in funding to date. - The Series B round, first announced at $12 million in
June, was co-led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture
arm of Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider with 23
hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities. - Founded in 2014, Conversa enables health systems
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Northwell Health Offers COVID-19 Screening Chat for NY Schools and Employers
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health announced that its Northwell Direct unit, which works with large employers, will be offering Conversa HealthCheck to screen employees, customers, students, and visitors. - HealthCheck is a quick, chat-based electronic screening
for symptoms and signs of exposure to COVID-19. If cleared, users receive a
digital "badge" that allows entry to a facility. If not cleared, they
are given additional information on staying home and steps for testing
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa. - Murray Brozinsky
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