UPMC Enterprises, the venture capital arm of Pittsburgh-based UPMC Health, backed health data company Smile Digital Health in a $30 million series B financing round.
Innovation
Xploro, a pediatric-focused digital health startup founded in the U.K., has opened a U.S. headquarters after receiving funding from two health system venture capital arms and hiring the former chief innovation officer of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital.
Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health Children's Hospital is offering its patient's a chance to tour the South Carolina Aquarium through a robot they can control without leaving their hospital bed, WYFF reported Jan. 25.
Winston, Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has been remotely monitoring some cardiac and heart failure patients in the Charlotte area since last year.
Pearl Health, a value-based care technology company focused on healthcare risk-bearing, has raised $75 million in a series B funding round.
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Hospitals are looking to invest in new technologies and work-on innovations that will improve the care patients receive.
With technology and financial pressures having penetrated all levels of healthcare, it can sometimes seem as if the industry has become distracted from its fundamental human mission.
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has a venture capital arm that invests in early-stage health companies focused on care experience, financing, delivery and innovation.
SVB Capital, the venture capital and credit investing arm of Silicon Valley Bank, led the $25 million financing for Health Payment Systems, a healthcare financing or payment company.
The NFL Players Association and Silicon Valley Bank participated in a $40 million financing round for Miach Orthopedics, a medtech company that creates an implant allowing patients to help heal their anterior cruciate ligament tears.