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UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health Join Robust and Strategic Alliance of Health Systems Working Together to Build and Deploy Healthtech Solutions NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Aegis Ventures, a New York-based venture studio, welcomed two health system partners to join the Digital Consortium. UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health join a strategic alliance of nine systems announced earlier this year: Endeavor Health, Indiana University Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Northwell Health, Novant Health, Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Sharp HealthCare, and Stanford Health Care. These 11 systems will work together with the common goal of reimagining the healthcare experience for all stakeholders through an innovative health system-led approach to build and invest in new technologies. The Digital Consortium launched in April 2024 on the heels of three years of collaboration between Northwell Health and Aegis Ventures. This initial alliance resulted in the development and growth of four companies spanning patient engagement, AI-enabled diagnostics, workflow automation, and empathetic AI. Grounded in efforts to transform healthcare and improve overall health outcomes for patients, the partnerships with UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health will accelerate the consortium's pipeline of companies launching in the coming year. "We launched the Digital Consortium on the founding premise that health systems should be in the driver's seat when it comes to innovation," said Dr. John Noseworthy, Emeritus President and CEO of Mayo Clinic, and chairman of the Digital Consortium. "By aligning incentives between innovators and health systems, we create sustainable technologies that are better for patients, providers, and administrators." Headquartered in Pittsburgh, UPMC Enterprises is the innovation, commercialization, and venture capital arm of UPMC, a world-renowned academic medical center and insurer that is committed to shaping the way future health systems operate through clinical and technological innovation and research. With a strong track record of building new businesses that improve the patient experience as well as quality, access and cost of care. UPMC Enterprises has more than 40 active investments in early to late stage growth companies. UPMC Enterprises' focus on clinician-scientist and health system-led innovation aligns closely with the goals of the Digital Consortium. Vanderbilt Health, based in Nashville Tenn., is a part of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest and most prominent academic medical centers in the Southeast. As an academic medical center, Vanderbilt Health has focused on launching creative solutions in areas such as pharmacy, supply chain, and employer health services, bringing a track record of business building to the Digital Consortium. "I'm thrilled to welcome UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health to the Digital Consortium," said John Beadle, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Aegis Ventures. "These new partners are already putting innovation at the center of what they do. By combining their knowledge with that of our existing health system partners, we have the ability to make a real difference in the solutions that are being created across both healthcare and technology." The current healthcare landscape consists of many healthcare technology companies creating solutions in search of a problem. Aegis' Digital Consortium is built on the foundation that health systems need to be at the forefront of innovation. Through collaboration, the consortium's 11 members will work directly with Aegis to understand the problems they want to address and co-develop, invest in, and deploy tailored healthtech solutions that solve those problems. About Aegis Ventures Aegis Ventures is a next-generation startup studio that partners with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to originate, launch, and scale transformative companies. The Aegis platform brings together market-shaping ideas, permanent growth capital, and ambitious individuals driven to solve major societal problems. Aegis aims to build companies with the capacity for vast impact, with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and digital health. Within these verticals, Aegis targets the creation of companies that leverage technology to better optimize tradeoffs between quality, access, and cost, focusing on innovations that promote seamless continuity of care, patient empowerment, and better-informed clinical decision-making. To learn more about Aegis, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn. Media Contact: Gracyn Shah for Aegis Ventures [email protected] SOURCE Aegis Venture Partners LLC WANT YOUR COMPANY'S NEWS FEATURED ON PRNEWSWIRE.COM? 440k+ Newsrooms & Influencers 9k+ Digital Media Outlets 270k+ Journalists Opted In GET STARTED

IRVING, Texas--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Vizient, Inc. announced top performers in clinical quality, supplier diversity and environmental sustainability excellence. The awards recognize the achievements of participating hospitals and health systems in patient care quality and supply chain excellence and were announced at Vizient Connections Summit Sept. 17 in Las Vegas. “Top performers set a precedent in leadership and culture for other health systems and hospitals to follow," said Byron Jobe , Vizient president and CEO. "We celebrate each of these organizations for their efforts to deliver cost-effective, high-quality patient care in their communities." The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are: NYU Langone Health Rush University Medical Center UC Irvine Medical Center Houston Methodist Hospital Intermountain Medical Center Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center UCSF Medical Center Froedtert Health - Froedtert Hospital UC San Diego Health Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mayo Clinic Rochester The University of Kansas Hospital Keck Hospital of USC University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are: St George Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Memorial Hermann - The Woodlands Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire NewYork-Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Mayo Clinic Florida McKay-Dee Hospital Center NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Fairview Southdale Hospital Endeavor Health - Evanston Hospital Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital AdventHealth Daytona Beach Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital AdventHealth Fish Memorial AdventHealth Palm Coast Odessa Regional Medical Center Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital The Chester County Hospital and Health System Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton Corewell Health Grosse Pointe Hospital AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach Greenwich Hospital St. Joseph Medical Center Prisma Health Baptist Hospital AdventHealth Celebration The Medical Center of Southeast Texas Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills Campus UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Stanford Tri-Valley Endeavor Health - Highland Park Hospital Top performers in the community hospital cohort are: Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center Alta View Hospital Parkview Huntington Hospital Cedar City Hospital Mountain West Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks Parkview Noble Hospital University of Kansas Health Systems - Great Bend Campus Garrett Regional Medical Center Riverton Hospital Parkview Whitley Hospital Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital Fairview Northland Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital Layton Hospital Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Holy Family Memorial Southeast Georgia Health System-Camden Campus INTEGRIS Grove Hospital Sharon Hospital Baptist Medical Center - Nassau Fairview Lakes Medical Center Integris Miami CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Beeville The Rising Star Award recognizes academic medical centers that made significant improvement in care quality, measured by a rise in at least 20 positions in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study from the prior year and scoring in the top 25. Rising Stars are: Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center University of Chicago Medicine The Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency, and equity. The composite scoring system uses patient-level data from the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center ® , Vizient Access and Throughput data, as well as data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base. Top performers are: UCLA Health Systems Clinics NYU Langone Health University of Utah Health UCI Health Rush University Medical Group The Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellence Award recognizes provider clients across five cohorts on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community. Selection criteria is based on contract purchases of minority-, woman-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned business enterprises as a percentage of a provider client’s Vizient spend. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: University of Maryland Medical System Large, specialized complex care medical center: Novant Health Complex care medical center: Memorial Hermann Health System Pediatric cohort: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The Environmental Sustainability Excellence Award ranks members across five cohorts on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products that meet Vizient's Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Standard as well as those who commit to the White House-Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: Stony Brook University Hospital Large, specialized complex care medical center: Memorial Health Complex care medical center cohort: Legacy Health Community hospitals: Buchanan General Hospital Pediatric: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles About Vizient, Inc. Vizient, Inc. , the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serves more than 65% of the nation’s acute care providers, including 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 35% of the non-acute market. The Vizient contract portfolio represents $140 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective, high-value care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, strategic, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. 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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CisionVision, co-founded by Zhongming (Jeremy) Li, PhD, and Angela Belcher, PhD, is proud to receive up to $22 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Precision Surgical Interventions (PSI) program to develop solutions to a major problem in surgery: critical anatomy visualization. The five-year award will be led by Dr. Li, CEO of CisionVision, and Lisa Knowlton, MD, MPH, project co-PI and Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford Medicine. Teams that will contribute to this groundbreaking project include Jeffrey Jopling, MD, MSHS, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Herbert Mason Hedberg, MD, and Monika Krezalek, MD, Endeavor Health; and Danny Chen, PhD, University of Notre Dame, and other top institutions that will be announced later. "We are honored to receive this award and work with a distinguished group of researchers to drive innovations in surgical imaging," said Dr. Li. "I am excited to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of experts advancing the frontier of surgical imaging technology," said Dr. Knowlton. "This project holds the promise of a significant leap forward in surgical precision and patient safety." "With the Precision Surgical Interventions program, we're seeking to fundamentally change how surgery is done." Ileana Hancu, PhD, ARPA-H PSI Program Manager, said. "PSI and its technical performer teams are committed to developing tools that reduce the rate of reoperations or accidental damage to critical structures." The collaboration involves: Stanford Medicine: Recognized as a center of academic excellence and healthcare innovation, Stanford will accelerate the integration of these breakthrough technologies into clinical practice. Johns Hopkins Medicine: A leader in medical research, Johns Hopkins Medicine will focus on clinical studies and the application of advanced visualization technologies in real-world surgical settings. Endeavor Health: As a Chicagoland-based integrated health system and national leader in laboratory innovation, Endeavor Health will facilitate the implementation and evaluation of these technologies in a clinical environment. University of Notre Dame: With expertise in artificial intelligence and biomedical imaging, Notre Dame will transform surgical data into clinical insights for more precise and safer surgery. Learn more: Media Contact Jennifer Z. Chen: Email: [email protected]; (917-880-7274) About CisionVision CisionVision is a medical device company dedicated to advancing the field of medical imaging. With a commitment to excellence and collaboration, CisionVision works with top institutions to bring innovative solutions to surgeons, pathologists, pathologist's assistants, and other clinicians to improve patient outcomes worldwide. SOURCE Cision Vision