HEALTHTECH: Companies are driving consumerization in healthcare. How is that trend impacting traditional healthcare organizations, and why do you think it’s important for them to be agile in response?LU: There are a lot of…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 02, 2023 – After being selected as a subcontractor by the US Department of State (DOS), Northwell Direct will assist DOS providers in treating US government employees stationed overseas.
Following the growth of…
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Last April, Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York, teamed up with startup studio Aegis Ventures to create a healthcare AI company creation platform called Ascertain. Flash forward to May 2023, and…
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Aegis Ventures and Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of the New York-based health system, on Tuesday launched Optain, a company that aims to use AI-backed retinal imaging to catch early signs of disease. The…
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What You Should Know:Today Ascertain, the partnership between Aegis Ventures and Northwell Holdings, announced a $12M seed funding round to launch its first company, Optain, an artificial intelligence (AI) company leveraging retinal imaging to…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 09, 2023 – Northwell Health has awarded $1 million to develop two employee-driven digital health innovation projects as part of the health system’s 2023 Innovation Challenge.
Winners of the competition include team leads…
The strategic investment was led by General Catalyst and a cohort of leading health system partners and will enable care teams to give more patients a high-touch care experience
Memora Health, the leading intelligent care…
Every patient has questions about their health or treatment, but care teams don’t have the capacity to be available around the clock — it’s a well-known fact that the healthcare workforce is stretched across…
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CHICAGO — At the HIMSS23 Venture Connect event on Wednesday, panelists how their investment strategies are changing in a slowed funding landscape. “It is certainly an investor-friendly environment. And it’s not to say that we’ll…
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The Covid-19 pandemic showed that technology like video and text-based therapy can greatly support behavioral healthcare. But where does Artificial Intelligence (AI) come into play?
It certainly shows potential, said Taft Parsons III, vice president…
