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Northwell Health, one of New York’s largest healthcare providers, and Aegis Ventures, a New York-based startup studio are forming a joint venture to devise, launch, and scale AI-driven companies to address healthcare’s most vexing challenges across quality, equity, and cost . The venture will put together medical, technology, and business resources to create a platform to support healthcare innovation. Aegis Ventures intends to invest at least $100 million of seed-stage funds through the platform, according to a press release, to catalyze a significant multiple of that amount from the venture capital and investment community.
“New York was at the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis, and today’s announcement places it at the epicenter of innovation that will tackle healthcare’s most pressing problems,” said Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health. “This joint venture will leverage data from Northwell’s patient population, one of the most diverse in the world, along with Northwell’s intellectual capital in AI technology. Working together, Northwell and Aegis will create companies that bring higher quality, lower cost healthcare to those who need it most.”
The deal comes just one week after the announcement of a collaboration between Jefferson Health and venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners.
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Quil, a joint venture between Independence Health Group and Comcast, has hired a chief digital officer. The Philadelphia-based company, helps consumers organize and navigate healthcare needs in partnership with their providers, health plans and loved ones. Dwight Raum will focus on accelerating the scalability and growth of the company’s digital care engagement and connected home platforms.
Raum previously worked at Johns Hopkins Medicine where he most recently served as both chief technology officer and chief information officer, in addition to being co-director for Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Digital Strategy.
Raum also co-founded and served as the executive director of the Technology Innovation Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine, which builds and deploys innovative clinical information systems across the institution. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Raum led the team responsible for designing new digital health and screening tools for Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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SimBioSys has raised a $15 million Series A round to accelerate the development and commercialization of its TumorScope software platform. The company’s simulation-based precision medicine platform supports individualized treatment planning for cancer patients. Genoa Ventures and Northpond Ventures, co-led the round with participation from AV8 Ventures, Heritage Medical Group, and Mayo Clinic. Existing investors and founders also participated in this financing round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $21 million.
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Anomaly, a precision payments platform using AI to improve payment accuracy in the healthcare industry, has raised $17 million in series A and seed funding. RRE Ventures led the funding round, which also included participation from Link Ventures and existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Declaration Partners, and Redesign Health.
The company works with healthcare payers, claims clearinghouses and providers to identify and prevent payment and billing errors before they occur.
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