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Healthcare PE Firm Heritage Group Launches $300M Health Tech Fund

by Fred Pennic 01/14/2021 Leave a Comment

Heritage Group

Partners David McClellan, Rock Morphis, Paul Wallace (Left to Right) What You Should Know: - Healthcare private equity firm Heritage Group launches a $300M fund to invest in high-growth healthcare services and technology companies. - Heritage is backed by some of the leading healthcare organizations in the nation, including large provider systems, payers, and healthcare service providers. Heritage Group, a Nashville, TN-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, today
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COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration

by Wes Wright, CTO at Imprivata 11/02/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration

Wes Wright, CTO at Imprivata If you work in healthcare, chances are that the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to quickly scale up or move staff around to manage the onslaught of patients. The demand for clinicians and support staff grew alongside the spread of the virus, making organizations add clinicians or reassign employees with new or modified roles: Ambulatory nurses went down in the Emergency Department or Isolation Ward, revenue cycle folks started doing transport, and so on. In some
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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…

by Michael A Greeley, Co-Founder & General Partner at Flare Capital Partners 10/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism… Healthcare Technology Digital Health

Michael A Greeley , Co-Founder & General Partner at Flare Capital Partners This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting

by Jasmine Pennic 06/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting

What You Should Know: - Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC. - Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide. - This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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NovuHealth Appoints Sutter Health Aetna Exec Steve Wigginton CEO

by Fred Pennic 05/14/2020 Leave a Comment

NovuHealth Appoints Sutter Health Aetna Exec Steve Wigginton Chief Executive Officer

NovuHealth, a consumer engagement company, announced that former Sutter Health|Aetna executive Steve Wigginton has joined the company as its chief executive officer. Wigginton succeeds company co-founder Tom Wicka, who has served as CEO since the company’s inception and will move to the role of executive chairman.  Wicka, as executive chairman, will be taking a strategic role developing business markets, creating new partnerships, and working with Wigginton and the board to drive M&A
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors

by Fred Pennic 03/04/2020 Leave a Comment

Suki Raies $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors

What You Need to Know: - Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock. - In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension. - Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Sutter Health, Lyft Partner to Improve Access to Care for Patients & Staff

by Fred Pennic 01/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Sutter Health, Lyft Partner to Improve Access to Care for Patients & Staff

 - Sutter Health and Lyft announced a collaboration to provide patients and staff with improved access to care that will optimize the patient/provider experience. - Starting today, Sutter hospitals and care centers around Northern California will have the option to start implementing customized, individual transportation programs, and address social determinants of health. Not-for-profit network Sutter Health and transportation network company Lyft today announced a collaboration to power the
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Eko Raises $20M to Expand Machine Learning Platform for Cardiac Monitoring/Analysis

by Jasmine Pennic 09/25/2019 Leave a Comment

AI-Powered Digital Health Company Eko Closes $20 Million Series B to Continue the Fight Against Heart Disease

- AI-driven digital health startup Eko raises $20M led by ARTIS Ventures with participation from 3M and Mayo Clinic. - Funding will be used to accelerate research and development (R&D) and commercialization of Eko’s machine learning platform for cardiac screening/analysis. - Eko’s cardiac monitor combines digital stethoscope and ECG technology both for in-clinic and at-home monitoring, which enables patients to seamlessly and consistently send cardiac data to their
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Stanford, Sutter Health to Explore Joint Cancer Care Services in East Bay

by Fred Pennic 07/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Stanford, Sutter Health to Explore Joint Cancer Care Services in East Bay

Stanford Health Care and Sutter Health have signed a letter of intent to explore opportunities to jointly provide cancer care for patients and their families in the East Bay region of the San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area. The intent of the collaboration is to increase access to high-quality cancer care for patients as close to home as possible by building on the strength of Stanford’s leadership in cancer care and clinical research, the Stanford Medicine network and Sutter’s integrated
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Women’s Health Network to Launch AI- Enabled Digital Voice Assistant for its 1500 Physicians

by Fred Pennic 06/13/2019 Leave a Comment

Women’s Health Network to Launch AI- Enabled Digital Voice Assistant for its 1500 Physicians

National women’s health network Unified Physician Management (Unified) announced that it is teaming up with Suki to offer an artificial intelligence-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant to its national network of women’s health care providers. Suki uses a combination of voice commands from physicians and the context in which they practice to create a clinically accurate note that is then sent to an electronic health record (EHR) system.Unified LocationsUnified has medical practice
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