Portfolio

Direct Investments

Altus

Altus builds durable, ergonomic, and stylish technology workstation solutions.

Arivale

Arivale makes personalized, data-driven, preventive coaching a new wellness paradigm in the United States.

Atlas

Specialty management company that develops and operates Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC's) in partnership with leading health systems.

AvaSure

AvaSys® is a remote patient observation and communication platform that enables continuous visual and audio monitoring of patients, which develops a culture of safety.

Ciitizen

Ciitizen is a free service that helps patients get more out of their health records. The platform enables patients to find better treatment options and allows them the opportunity to advance research.

eVideon

eVideon provides hospitals with interactive patient care solutions that engage, educate and entertain patients and visitors, while streamlining workflows for staff.

Gauss

Gauss Surgical develops real-time blood monitoring solutions to provide an accurate and objective estimation of blood loss – helping to optimize transfusion decisions, recognize hemorrhage status and improve patient outcomes.

KeyCare

Nation’s first and only telehealth group powered by Epic’s technology. Provides enhanced virtual provider pool to support urgent care, out-of-state, and specialty telehealth augmentation.

Leiters

An FDA-registered 503B outsourcing provider of high-quality hospital and ophthalmology compounded sterile preparations.

Lumere

Lumere provides data-driven technologies and solutions that help clinicians and hospital administrators make product decisions based on evidence, clinical outcomes and product/manufacturer quality.

ProCredEX

ProCredEx is a new business model for accelerated credentialing; it drastically shortens the processing times for practitioner credentialing and payer enrollment.

Seaport Diagnostics

Recent scientific breakthroughs are revolutionizing the way we think about DNA and health. Seaport Diagnostics is on a mission to turn these discoveries into practical solutions and make them available to you.

Vynca

Vynca addresses critical unmet needs in end-of-life care by aligning two important factors: individual preference and individual care. Vynca helps individuals, their caregivers, and clinicians navigate the complex process of making choices for future care preferences.

Indirect Investments

AllyAlign

AllyAlign Health is a care management services organization focused on helping long-term care providers and payors manage the cost and quality of patient care for the dual-eligible population.

Avia

The leading health partner for digital insights, strategic guidance, and consulting services, Avia accelerates digital transformation throughout healthcare.

Ayogo

The Ayogo platform combines behavioral economics, social psychology and gamification to engage and motivate patients to make better healthcare decisions.

Brightline

Brightline is a tech-enabled behavioral health home for children, teens, and their families.

CareBox

CareBox is a consumer-centric health data platform enabling new and better patient-centric health solutions and services.

CirrusMD

CirrusMD is the virtual care company that’s overcome the legacy barriers of telehealth to deliver care by immediately connecting patients with real doctors. It’s simple, private, convenient and helps people get the answers they need, whenever they need them.

Clarify Health

Enterprise analytics cloud platform that transforms healthcare data into actionable insights for providers, health plans, and life sciences companies.

Connections Health Solutions

Connections Health Solutions is the leading provider of emergent behavioral health services. Through its combination of psych-focused ED/observation units, urgent care clinics, and transitional outpatient services, Connections provides 24/7 access to patients experiencing mental health crises.

Equum Medical

Equum is an acute-care telemedicine provider that partners with hospital systems to understand their unique pain points and strategic goals and tailors its teleICU programs to meet those needs.

Higi

Higi gives consumers unsurpassed access to their health data through a network of over 11,000 FDA-cleared smart health stations and more than 80 integrated health devices and apps.

HomeThrive

HomeThrive provides support and services – including communicating with caregivers – to help aging adults live independently at home.

Jasper

Jasper is an end-to-end cancer care platform that navigates, connects, and provides actionable insights for consumers.

Livongo

Livongo provides applied health signals for chronic condition management.

MedArrive

Bridge the virtual care gap and bring the human touch to telehealth. Access a highly trained network of Field Providers to give patients the hands-on care they need at home.

Medical Solutions

Medical Solutions is a healthcare staffing firm that specializes in placing registered nurses in temporary travel assignments throughout the nation.

Medisafe

Medisafe connects users to their family (and soon, their doctors) for support, encouragement and expertise. It learns about each user’s unique situation, so it can deliver custom notifications for appointments and refills, medication updates, personalized health recommendations and discounts to help you stay organized.

NOCD

nOCD is a mobile mental health app that uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to assist in treating OCD patients.

Nortis

Nortis is a recognized leader in the emerging field of organ on a chip (OOC) technology. OOCs, also referred to as microphysiological environments (MPEs), are revolutionizing the way biomedical science is performed by transcending animal-based research and generating models that more accurately resemble human physiology.

OM1

OM1 is a digital health company focused on the personalization of big data and the power of combining that data, Al machine learning technology, analytics and outcomes to improve clinical and financial outcomes and performance under value-based care models.

PayZen

Tech solution tackling U.S. healthcare’s affordability crisis.

RecoveryOne

RecoveryOne’s mission is to empower people struggling with musculoskeletal issues to achieve an optimal recovery, reducing personal and economic burden.

Referral Point

Referral Point generates analytics insights for patient data for value-based care.

SameSky Health

SameSky Health is a cultural experience company that removes barriers to care and forms meaningful relationships to bring people to health.

SchoolCare

SchoolCare is a tech-enabled pediatric health data platform leveraged by K-12 schools and payers.

Transcarent

Trascarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform for employees of self-insured employers and their families.

Upward Health

Upward Health is an in-home multidisciplinary provider that partners with health plans and other risk-bearing entities to address the unique needs of high-risk, high-need patients.

Vivante Health

Digital engagement and chronic condition management platform.

Yaro

Yaro is building digital products that put consumers in the center of their healthcare so that it’s simple to make smart benefits choices, shop and pay for care, and establish financial wellbeing.

Zerigo Health

Zerigo Health is a connected at-home phototherapy platform for chronic skin disorders.

Strategic Partnerships – Ventures

7 WireVentures

An early stage, health care venture fund, 7Wire helps entrepreneurs who focus on empowering the Informed Connected Health Consumer to change the status quo.

BioStar Capital

BioStar continues to focus on making impactful and transformational investments in medical technologies including devices, digital health, robotics, and diagnostics with an emphasis on cardiovascular and orthopedics, two of the most dynamic areas of growth in healthcare.

Civica

Civica’s mission is to provide quality generic medicines that are available and affordable to everyone.

Concord Health Partners

Concord is primarily focused on investing in healthcare companies that have the potential to enhance the value of care through products, services, technologies and solutions that lower costs, improve quality and/or expand access to care.

Heritage Group

Our strategic investors help us identify and build solutions for the unique challenges they face. They work closely with our management teams and Portfolio Companies to drive growth.

Lakewood Hughes

Lakewood Hughes is an investment firm of the Buzzitta Family Office that provides capital and operational support to companies in the industrial, technology and health care sectors.

New Community Transformation Fund

This fund supports both founders of color willing to move their enterprise to West Michigan as well as West Michigan-based companies that have founders or entrepreneurs of color who own businesses in their early or mid-stage of growth, or are looking to purchase a transitioning second-stage enterprise.

The Academy

The Strategic Partnership Alliance was established by the Health Management Academy to drive the due diligence of de novo partnership opportunities across a collaborate of health systems.

Strategic Partnerships – Commercial Innovations

Abundant Commercialization Alliance

The Alliance, out of Abundant Ventures in Chicago, is an alliance of multiple hospital system innovation teams collaborating to advance healthcare by commercializing new health technologies.

Grand Valley State University, School of Engineering

The mission of the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Seymour and Esther Padnos College of Engineering and Computing (PCEC) is to prepare undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, computing and occupational safety and health to become accomplished professionals; to contribute to our professions through active scholarship in all of its forms; and to support the university and society with expertise, leadership, and service.

Kendall College of Art and Design

Our faculty members are regionally and nationally known designers, artists, and scholars who share their experience in the studio and beyond. KCAD's facilities provide well-resourced studios, classrooms, labs, workshops, and exhibition spaces, and our technology is directly aligned with the systems and software used in the professional world.

MEDC Smartzone

MEDC offers entrepreneurial support including programs to commercialize university technology, assist high-tech startups, and more.

Spartan Innovations

Spartan Innovations provides the educational and financial support necessary to turn MSU research technologies and student ideas into successful Michigan startups and businesses. Located in the MSU Innovation Center, the team at Spartan Innovations works in close collaboration with the teams at MSU Technologies and Business-CONNECT.

Technology – Innovations (Active Licenses)

External Female Urinary Device (EDU)

December 21, 2021

An external catheter for women that reduces risk of hospital acquired infections and is more comfortable for the patient.

Stainless Steel Patient Specimen Drop Box

October 25, 2021

Designed to be HIPAA compliant, this innovative patient specimen drop box has two chutes to hold specimen containers while protecting them from patient interference or view.

Available for purchase from MarketLab:

White Drop Box

Stainless Steel Drop Box

Specimen Pass-Through Insert

Suction Supply Receptacle

October 25, 2021

The Suction Supply Receptacle is designed to better organize suction canisters and their lids. This device allows these items to be more neatly organized and conveniently accessed in a wall-mounted storage device.

Available for purchase from MarketLab.

Pannus Support

October 25, 2021

Designed to hold the pannus during ultrasound, cath-lab, and other procedures, this innovative support was created to accommodate both patient- and healthcare-professional needs with its comfortable fit and easy-to-use straps. The heavy-duty, seatbelt-style straps attach to beds and tables and are adjustable for a more comfortable, secure fit, while the elastic support stretches easily-to-fit patients. Antimicrobial, fluid-resistant Vestex material adds an extra layer of protection, while the machine washable support is easy to clean after use.

Available for purchase from MarketLab.

Isolation Gown Storage

October 25, 2021

The Isolation Gown Storage device is similar to an oversized “Kleenex” box and is designed to house the gowns and prevent several gowns from being pulled out at once.

Available for purchase from MarketLab:

Easy Pull Gown Dispenser

Easy Pull Gown PPE Dispenser

CoverMax Surgical Cap

October 25, 2021

Designed with AORN in mind, the CoverMax cap helps prevent microorganisms shedding from the skin and hair of perioperative personnel by drying quickly and keeping hair tucked securely away.

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