| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.11.2024 | ReferralMD Named to AVIA Marketplace's 2024 Top Conversational AI Companies | ReferralMD, a leader in healthcare technology, has been recognized as a 2024 Top Company in Conversational AI by AVIA Marketplace, the foremost digital health marketplace. This recognition follows extensive industry research and highlights ... |
| 06.03.2024 | Hospitals and Health System Executives Say Change Management is Essential for Innovation | At ViVE 2024 from left: Linda Finkel of AVIA (moderator); Sara Vaezy of Providence; Chris Waugh of Sutter Health; Rebecca Kaul of Northwell Health; and Michelle Stansbury of Houston Methodist.
The process in which hospitals and health syste... |
| 20.11.2019 | Advice to hospitals from digital health expert: Don’t start with bright shiny object | “We’re trying to leverage this thing called digital in all aspects of transforming their business,” said Avia’s CEO and co-founder Eric Langshur in a phone interview. “The way they deliver care, the way they connect with consumers, the way ... |
| 01.11.2019 | Chicago Tech Companies Raised At Least $42M in October | This is our roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 30.10.2019 | Digital Health Insights Company AVIA Raises $22 Million In Funding | Digital health insights AVIA announced it has raised $22 million in funding led by First Trust Capital Partners
AVIA — a leading partner for digital health insights, strategic guidance, and consulting services — announced it raised $22 mill... |
| 28.10.2019 | AVIA Launches Partner Network with Cerner, Deloitte, AHA, HFMA | Healthcare innovation network AVIA launches AVIA Partner Network for health systems to gain access to proprietary insights and resources.
American Hospital Association, Deloitte, Cerner Corporation, and the Healthcare Financial Management A... |
| 28.10.2019 | Digital health insights, consulting company Avia scores $22M | |
| 23.10.2019 | Avia Raises $22M in Funding | Avia, a Chicago, IL-based digital health insights, strategic guidance, and consulting services provider, raised $22m in funding.
The round was led by First Trust Capital Partners, with participation from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, Zi... |
| 23.10.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
Google claims its quantum computer solved a 10,000-year problem in seconds. Today, Google says it has achieved a breakthrough in computer res... |
| 23.10.2019 | AVIA Lands $22M to Expand Healthcare Innovation Network to New Markets | – AVIA raises $22M to expand its leading healthcare innovation network to expand its service offerings and reach new markets.
– Specifically, AVIA will tap into the new funds to grow its offerings in areas including consumerism, population ... |
| 23.10.2019 | Healthtech startup AVIA raises $22 million in new funding to boost service expansion | AVIA, a healthtech startup and partner for digital health insights, strategic guidance, and consulting services, has raised $22 million to enables AVIA to expand its coverage of new digital topical areas, services and markets. The round was... |
| 23.10.2019 | AVIA Raises $22M to Help Healthcare Orgs Fend Off Amazon and Apple | AVIA, a Chicago-based digital healthcare consulting company, raised a new round funding from a dozen health systems across the U.S. to help traditional healthcare organizations as they face increased competition from the likes of Amazon and... |
| 06.12.2018 | Seven more heath systems join Medicaid Transformation Project | The seven new members are:
BayCare Health System (Clearwater, Florida)
Boston Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, Virginia)
Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)
Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
University Hos... |
| 21.09.2017 | These are the top 5 digital innovation priorities for hospitals | Conducted in December 2016, AVIA and AHA interviewed 317 individuals from hospitals and health systems: 44 CEOs and 273 other innovation leaders.
The consensus among respondents seemed to be that ingenuity is important. Eighty-six percent i... |
| 10.08.2017 | Andy Slavitt is still sharing his passion for healthcare | In fact, his interest in the social media site has become more evident following the election, as he has used it as a platform to openly defend Obamacare. His Twitter bio used to read: “After Jan. 20, the mission is not over.”
In addition t... |
| 11.05.2017 | Andy Slavitt joins healthcare innovation network AVIA as adviser to transform patient care | Andy Slavitt
Andy Slavitt has a new gig as a senior adviser to AVIA Innovator Network, a Chicago-based health innovation network that works with health systems to help them derisk and curate digital health technology to improve patient care... |
| 09.04.2017 | Rush University Medical Center patients can now get a house call electronically | If you’re a Rush University Medical Center patient with a low-acuity condition, you can get a physician’s diagnosis from the comfort of your own home. And it doesn’t even require a video consultation.
The new service, called Rush SmartExam,... |
| 14.12.2016 | Panel: Healthcare Innovation Has Lagged, But Future Could Be Bright | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“Healthcare stinks at innovation, period.”
That statement, from Frank Byrne—formerly president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, WI, and now an advisor to the healthtech-focu... |
| 01.12.2016 | Where some health systems are betting big on digital | The story of how Healthcare met Digital has all the hallmarks of a bestseller: old meets new, worlds collide, and nothing is ever the same again. This story is still in its early chapters, and the decisions health systems make today will in... |
| 21.06.2016 | Inception Health President Talks Investment Strategies, Avia, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Taking investments from large health systems can be a way of killing two birds with one stone for early stage healthtech companies. This way, not only do the startups get the ... |
| 06.05.2016 | Fund of Funds, ConsortiEX & Froedtert: This Week’s Wisconsin Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Wrap up your week with these headlines from Wisconsin’s innovation community:
—The first recipient fund to launch under the Badger Fund of Funds will be The Idea Fund, based i... |
| 17.11.2015 | The healthcare accelerator tour: An entrepreneur’s perspective | Healthcare is plagued with a wicked combination: endless opportunities to improve efficiency and seemingly endless sales cycles. It’s easy to identify problems worth solving and even the technology to solve it. It’s not easy to get that new... |
| 18.03.2015 | Healthfinch Snags $1.5M, Swoops In To Automate Mundane Hospital Tasks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investors in Wisconsin and around the country are increasingly paying attention to the budding healthtech cluster in the state capital of Madison, placing bets on the startups... |
| 09.10.2014 | HIMSS, AVIA role out new platform to promote ‘next generation’ technologies | “HX360 is interested in all new generation technologies, but has a specific interest in those that change and improve the ‘processes’ of care delivery, rather than just new ‘tools’ for treatment or diagnostics – the latter including things ... |
| 22.09.2014 | Startup provider accelerator AVIA raises $6M | Other investors include Jump Capital, 7Wire Ventures and Jumpstart Capital.
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| - | Andy Slavitt is still sharing his passion for healthcare | Andy Slavitt is no longer the acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to speak out on healthcare’s hottest topics.
In a recent interview with The New York Times Ma... |
| - | Seven more heath systems join Medicaid Transformation Project | The Medicaid Transformation Project, an initiative launched earlier this year by innovation network AVIA and former CMS acting administrator Andy Slavitt, has added seven more hospitals to its ranks.
This makes for a grand total of 24 healt... |
| - | The healthcare accelerator tour: An entrepreneur’s perspective | Accelerators have been nurturing young companies since startups became as hip as garage bands. (This was 2005ish… about the same time I was in my garage tuning my guitar.) Founders consume the wisdom of elders in a sleepless boot camp desig... |
| - | Startup provider accelerator AVIA raises $6M | AVIA, a Chicago-based accelerator and startup that helps providers select the best technologies, has raised $6 million from the recently-launched $150 million venture capital fund by Providence Health & Services and other investors.
In ... |
| - | Where some health systems are betting big on digital | The story of how Healthcare met Digital has all the hallmarks of a bestseller: old meets new, worlds collide, and nothing is ever the same again. This story is still in its early chapters, and the decisions health systems make today will in... |
| - | Advice to hospitals from digital health expert: Don’t start with bright shiny object | Numerous organizations are trying to help health systems solve problems through smart use of digital health tools. One of those is Chicago-based Avia that is having a good run lately.
In back-to-back releases, the company announced $22 mill... |
| - | Andy Slavitt joins healthcare innovation network AVIA as adviser to transform patient care | Andy Slavitt
Andy Slavitt has a new gig as a senior adviser to AVIA Innovator Network, a Chicago-based health innovation network that works with health systems to help them derisk and curate digital health technology to improve patient care... |
| - | These are the top 5 digital innovation priorities for hospitals | Healthcare organizations are looking for breakthrough ideas, particularly when it comes to digital technologies.
A new survey from AVIA and the American Hospital Association zoomed in on just how leaders are eyeing the transformation of hea... |
| - | HIMSS, AVIA role out new platform to promote ‘next generation’ technologies | The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and AVIA have co-developed what they describe as a new platform to promote the adoption and use of “next generation” technologies among healthcare providers.
The platform, called HX3... |
| - | Rush University Medical Center patients can now get a house call electronically | If you’re a Rush University Medical Center patient with a low-acuity condition, you can get a physician’s diagnosis from the comfort of your own home. And it doesn’t even require a video consultation.
The new service, called Rush SmartExam,... |