Here are six hospitals and health systems that have distributed innovation funds — to startups, internal projects and venture funds — in the last two weeks, beginning with the most recent:
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence's venture arm and Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare participated in an $18 million Series A funding round for Twistle, an automated patient communication platform.
- Texas Children's invested in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's Technology and Innovation Fund to support pediatric medical innovation; the Houston-based hospital was also named the official pediatric medicine provider for Team USA athletes.
- Data analytics startup Socially Determined closed an $11.1 million funding round with participation from Lafayette (La.) General Health, which joined previously announced investors OSF Ventures, the investment arm of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, and Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica.
- OSF HealthCare also joined a $17 million funding round for existing partner Health Scholars, a cloud-based virtual reality platform offering clinical training programs.
- Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health formed a partnership with Lirio, a startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered behavior change platform; Bon Secours Mercy Health launched the collaboration with a direct investment of an undisclosed amount in the startup.
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