Becker's Healthcare May 6, 2021
From launching new venture funds to spearheading multimillion-dollar digital transformation projects, hospitals and health systems are making strategic investments to boost healthcare innovation.
Here are five hospitals and health systems that recently scaled innovation efforts across their organizations and venture capital funds.
1. Newark, Del.-based Christiana Care inked a 10-year joint venture with Highmark Health in April to increase access and affordability to care for patients through technology. The organizations will create a Solution Design Center that focuses on developing healthcare tech and data tools for members.
2. In March, St. Louis-based Ascension’s healthcare venture arm, Ascension Ventures, launched a $285 million strategic venture capital fund. Backed by 13 health system partners, the new fund raised Ascension Ventures’ total...