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This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain

4/14/2022

Vori Health Transforms Back And Joint Pain Treatment

1/22/2022

Alcon to Acquire Ivantis, Inc. and its Hydrus Microstent for Surgical Glaucoma, Strengthening Global Ophthalmology Portfolio

11/8/2021

First U.S. Patient Enrolled in Cardionomic's CPNS Pilot Study

11/2/2021

Recovery Centers of America (RCA) Partners with Owl to Deliver Highly Optimized Clinical Treatment for Patients with Substance Use Disorders

10/18/2021

PursueCare Partners With Owl to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes for Patients with Substance Use Disorders

8/11/2021

Bardy Diagnostics Carnation Ambulatory Monitor Patch decreases both time to diagnosis and readmissions in Emergency Department patients with possible arrhythmia concerns in Clinical Study from Overlake Medical Center

7/29/2021

Value-Based Payment Edges into Employer Programs

7/20/2021

Post-COVID value-based platforms are ready to scale

7/19/2021

Owl Launches New Brand and Adds Industry Leaders to Executive Team

6/17/2021

CSA Medical Announces Enrollment Milestone in a Mechanism of Action Study utilizing the RejuvenAir® System for COPD Patients with Chronic Bronchitis

11/11/2020

Community Psychiatry Doubles Facility Count, Becomes Bi-Coastal With Latest Acquisition

5/11/2021

How Investors Evaluate Human Capital At Deal Stage

3/16/2021

Strive Health Raises $140 Million Led by Alphabet’s CapitalG to Tackle $410 Billion of Unmanaged Kidney Disease Spend

3/16/2021

Ascension Ventures finalizes fifth strategic healthcare venture fund; expands assets under management to more than $1 Billion

3/3/2021

AdventHealth Selects Cedar Gate Technologies as Commercial Bundled Payments Partner

1/26/2021

Blue Cross NC Launches Blue Premier Advanced Kidney Care in Collaboration with Fresenius Medical Care North America, Strive Health

1/28/2021

Hillrom Announces Planned Acquisition Of Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.

1/19/2021

IVANTIS RECOGNIZED FOR INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE AND COMPANY CULTURE

12/16/2020

Top Workplaces: Ivantis brings tech smarts, equity share to its team

12/11/2020

CSA Medical Announces Enrollment Milestone in a Mechanism of Action Study utilizing the RejuvenAir® System for COPD Patients with Chronic Bronchitis

11/11/2020

eConsult Solution Company AristaMD Adds Ascension Ventures and .406 Ventures to Investment Syndicate, Completing Its $24 Million Series B Financing

7/14/2020

Owl Insights Secures Strategic Investment Co-led by Ascension Ventures & Blue Venture Fund

9/8/2020

Geisinger Partners with VisitPay as Importance of Patient Billing Experience Peaks Amid Economic Downturn

8/18/2020

HUMANA AND STRIVE HEALTH ANNOUNCE KIDNEY DISEASE CARE COORDINATION SERVICES COLLABORATION IN KENTUCKY AND INDIANA

7/28/2020

Cedar Gate Technologies Acquires Citra Health Solutions

6/25/2020

TransUnion Partners with VisitPay to Extend Leading Healthcare Revenue Protection® Solutions into Patient Payments

2/25/2020

Jacksonville patient receives first of its kind wireless pacemaker in Northeast Florida

1/21/2020

Cedar Gate Technologies Announces Strategic Investment from Ascension Ventures

1/7/2019

At one health system, self-service portal now accounts for 28% of collections

11/26/2019

Ascension Health Moves to Connect to Home-Based Patients to Highly Interventional Telehealth Services

11/14/2019

Cedar Gate Technologies’ Value-Based Care Analytics Help Franciscan ACO Improve Performance by $44.4 Million.

11/5/2019

North Carolina taps Phreesia to help with social determinants of health

9/11/2019

EBR Systems Closes $30M in New Funding, John McCutcheon Joins Company as President and CEO

8/27/2019

Cedar Gate Technologies Recognized in Gartner's Hype Cycle for U.S. Healthcare Payers, 2019 Report

7/30/2019

EBR Appoints Ascension Physician as Co-Principal Investigator

4/30/2019

Ascension Ventures Completes Investment in Strive Health

4/8/2019

Communications platform gains efficiencies, cuts discharge time at Avera Health

12/4/2018

Renovia Appoints Tara Butler, M.D. to its Board of Directors

10/31/2018

New KLAS Report Reveals Vivify Health's Platform as Most Discussed Remote Patient Monitoring Solution by Healthcare Providers

10/2/2018

Renovia Completes $42.3 Million Series B Financing

8/21/2018

HealthMyne Raises $15 Million in Series B Round to Expand Commercialization Efforts

8/1/2018

Olive (f/k/a CrossChx) Closes $32.8 Million Series D Financing

7/30/2018

Ivantis Receives FDA Approval

8/14/2018

Nation's First-Ever On-Demand Health Insurance Has Arrived

6/28/2018

Remote care monitoring in Ascension Indiana and Ascension Texas enables greater access to care

4/3/2018

New Data from the HORIZON Trial of the Hydrus® Microstent Shows Significantly Lower IOP and Medication Use at 24 Months in a US Patient Cohort

4/12/2018

What Can VisitPay Do That Credit Cards Can’t? Understand When Patients Will Pay Their Hospital Bills

3/21/2018

Precision medicine startup Syapse raises $30 million to expand cancer tech, S.F. workforce

11/14/2017

San Francisco-based Syapse today raised $30 million in Series D funding to expand operations for its precision medicine software.

Focusing on consumerization of healthcare billing, VisitPay closes $15M Series A

11/9/2017

VisitPay, formerly known as iVinci, is a health IT business founded by a serial entrepreneur with the goal of taking the stress and complexity out of healthcare billing and make the process more transparent for patients and automated for health systems. It has closed a $15 million Series A round.

BardyDx Selected as one of CIOReview Magazine 10 Most Promising Patient Monitoring Solution Providers for 2017

11/8/2017

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iVinci Health Rebrands as VisitPay and Raises Funds to Fuel Growth for Patient Financial Health Platform

11/7/2017

R1 RCM and Phreesia Announce Strategic Partnership to Create a Better Patient Experience across the Continuum of Care

10/17/2017

Cofactor Genomics Announces $18M Funding in an Oversubscribed Series-A Round to Bring RNA to Precision Medicine

9/18/2017

Augmenix Announces Positive Five-Year Long-Term Data Highlighting Significant Bowel and Sexual Quality of Life Benefits for Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with SpaceOAR® Hydrogel

9/6/2017

Augmenix is ranked number 207 on the INC 500 list of fastest growing private companies in America

8/14/2017

CSA Medical Announces FDA (510K) clearance of truFreeze® System, RapidAV spray catheter

7/17/2017

Neuronetics, Inc. Raises $15 Million in Series G Equity Financing, Led by Ascension Ventures

6/6/2017

CSA Medical Announces Expansion of truFreeze® Label to Include Barrett’s Esophagus with High Grade Dysplasia

5/30/2017

Recognizing the top workplaces in healthcare - Phreesia

5/20/2017

New treatment helps prostate cancer patients

5/10/2017

Vivify Health Awarded Patent for Extending EMRs with Digital Health

4/20/2017

Home Health Agency Turns to Telemonitoring to Reduce Readmission Rates and Decrease Costs

4/19/2017

Trinity to expand advanced home health telemedicine system

4/17/2017

Hospital-based venture funds bet big on health startups

4/8/2017

Novant Health Chooses Voalte Platform for Caregiver Communication at 14 Hospitals in 4 States

2/14/2017

Iron Bow Technologies, Partnered with Vivify Health, Awarded $258 Million U.S. Veterans Affairs Home Telehealth Contract

2/15/2017

Trinity Health at Home goes big with Vivify remote monitoring

2/1/2017

Reputation.com Accelerates Growth with $20M Investment Led by Strategic Healthcare Fund

1/5/2017

Bardy Diagnostics Announces Growth Capital Funding

1/5/2017

GetWellNetwork Acquires Skylight Healthcare Systems

9/9/2015

KLAS Rates Voalte Top Platform Vendor for Improved Care Team Communication

11/1/2016

Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives Team Up to Launch the Largest Community-Based Precision Medicine Program in the U.S.

9/19/2016

Intermountain, Stanford, Providence form 79-hospital alliance to share cancer data

6/2/2016

How technology is driving research in health care

6/3/2016

Quantros, Inc. Acquires Comparion Medical Analytics

3/1/2016

Invest for Health’ Sessions Announced for SXSW Interactive Festival

3/8/2016

Ascension Ventures, athenahealth and Cambia Health Solutions have announced the session topics for Invest for Health on March 14.

EBR Systems Announces First Commercial Implants of WiSE Technology

3/8/2016

UPMC leads $17M investment in Vivify Health for its remote patient monitoring system

2/25/2016

Ascension Ventures to Co-host SXSW Event

2/16/2016

Syapse Raises $25 Million Series C Round Led by Ascension Ventures to Expand Precision Medicine

1/12/2016

Ascension subsidiary becomes lead investor in virtual care: 3 things to know

1/4/2016

Zipnosis Announces $17 Million Series A Financing Led By Safeguard Scientifics

1/4/2016

Ingenious Med Ranked Number 341 Fastest Growing Company

11/17/2015

Ascension Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in Atigeo

9/22/2015

Voalte Raises $17 Million in Series D Financing

9/2/2015

Cardinal Health to Acquire naviHealth,Leader in Post-Acute Care Management Solutions

8/25/2015

One by Ingenious Med Secures #1 Ranking from KLAS

2/3/2015

Apama Medical Closes $17.5M in Series B Financing

1/13/2015

Leading Healthcare VC Firms to Invest in Ingenious Med

1/9/2015

Phreesia Secures $30 Million in Funding Led by LLR Partners to Continue Expansive Growth and Maintain Market Leadership

10/23/2014

Ocular Therapeutix Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

7/30/2014

Marshfield Food Safety Shows Increased Accuracy in Salmonella Strain Typing with PathoGenetix RESOLUTION System

3/26/2014

PathoGenetix Delivers Bacterial Identification System to FDA for Evaluation

2/6/2014

CSA Medical Completes $16 Million Series C Financing

12/20/2013

ISTO Technologies names George W. Dunbar, Jr. President and Chief Executive Officer

1/9/2014

Rapid Pathogen Identification System Evaluated for Food Industry Testing

12/17/2013

Syapse Enters Strategic Collaboration with Roche to Advance Precision Medicine in Oncology

1/9/2018

PathoGenetix Announces $10 Million Series C Financing

10/30/2013

Quantros Secures Growth Investment from Acension Health Ventures

8/20/2013

GetWellNetwork Receives Strategic Investment from Ascension Health Ventures

6/5/2013

PathoGenetix Advances Commercialization of New RESOLUTION Microbial Genotyping System for Rapid Bacterial Serotyping and Strain Typing

5/7/2013

Vivify Health Receives Funding to Accelerate Availability of its Cloud-based Remote Care Management Platform

5/1/2013

naviHealth Receives Strategic Investments from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Ascension Health Ventures

4/25/2013

CSA Medical Announces Completion of Enrollment in Mechanism of Action Study utilizing the RejuvenAir® System for COPD Patients with Chronic Bronchitis

5/12/2021

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Ocular Therapeutix Announces Closing of Initial Public OfferingREAD MORE

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PathoGenetix Delivers Bacterial Identification System to FDA for EvaluationREAD MORE

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