Redox Engine, the Madison, Wisconsin health IT startup that’s helping healthcare facilities overcome interoperability challenges has received $1 million in follow-on investment from Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund, according to a company release. The funding is part of Redox’s Series B round.
Redox will work with Intermountain in the Salt Lake City-based health system’s push to adopt digital health solutions that fit into their electronic health record. The company will also support applications Intermountain has developed, such as the Rehab Outcomes Management System, as part of Redox’s API platform.
Healthbox has previously run an accelerator for healthcare startups called Healthbox Studio but with the management change last year, Healthbox repositioned itself as a venture capital investment manager with an innovation platform that functions as a consultant to and collaborator with healthcare partners.
Healthbox has managed Intermountain Healthcare’s Innovation Fund since the fund’s launch in 2015. The fund is intended to source, evaluate, and invest in companies that align with Intermountain’s mission. So far the fund has made a handful of investments in healthcare startups, in addition to Redox:
Zebra Medical Vision, an Israel-based health IT business, developed a clinical decision support teaching computers to read and diagnose medical images through machine learning. Last year, Zebra closed a Series B round as it launched a consumer-facing product called Profound. The service allows individuals to upload their medical imaging scans such as computerized tomography scans and mammograms to Zebra Medical Vision’s online service, and receive an automated analysis of key clinical conditions.
Syapse is a precision medicine software meets clinical decision support startup. It seeks to improve care coordination for hospitals by extracting clinical, genomic and other molecular data from medical records, labs and pharmacies and integrating that data to offer more detailed patient profiles. By doing this, the company wants to guide doctors to find the right diagnostic test and therapeutic approach. The Intermountain fund took part in its Series C round.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The fund also invested in Utah-based genomics software developer Tute Genomics, which was later acquired by PierianDx. PierianDx seeks to enable personalized medicine for clinical labs.
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