Three New Healthcare Members to Join Aegis Venture’s Digital Consortium

Announcement

Three new members have joined Aegis Venture’s digital consortium as the health sector seeks strong partnerships to establish and adopt artificial intelligence-fueled health tech solutions, also to address common pain points. Keck Medicine of USC, Hartford Healthcare, and Yale New Haven Health System are part of a partnered extensive health system with reach to 14 regional health systems. The consortium consists of UPMC, Vanderbilt Health, Stanford healthcare and Northwell Health. The consortium will invest in, integrate health tech solutions, and codevelop with Aegis Ventures. The collaboration with these three new health systems will leverage the consortium’s portfolio of companies, with two startups ready to launch, stated co-founder and managing partner of Aegis Ventures, John Beadle.

Origin of Digital Collaborative

Aegis Ventures introduced digital collaborative 18 months ago with the support of nine founding health systems. To initiate officially reinforced Aegis ventures partnered with Northwell Ventures for three years that accelerated the growth and development of four companies involved in patient engagement, workflow automation, AI-enabled diagnostics a and supportive AI. The patient engagement platform, Clarie, along with the health system partners, was launched in 2023. Aegis and Northwell's joint venture is named ascertain, a company creation platform introduced in 2021. Ascertain aims to accelerate AI agents and automation technology to transition healthcare payers and providers' enterprise systems. In 2024, the two companies launched Optain, an AI-fueled disease identifier company. Aegis and Northwell are investors in Hume.

Views and Statements from the Company Leaders

John Beadle said, “By next year, we might be more in action once the model of the blueprint performs well. We have accurate partners, resources, team with us. We are aiming to come into force this year. We’ve been amazed by the excellence of the 11 health systems that are present in a group. There is extended engagement and, large portfolio promises with the health system partners. To date, they’ve been supportive and relevant to the validation, pipeline also great with partnering with us to form a chain of companies. We are more interested in joining than the resources available within the aegis."

Executive vice president and chief financial officer of Yale New Haven Health, Gail Kosyla, said, “Collaborating with Aegis Digital Consortium forms Yale New Haven Health’s mission to bolster efficiency and advance patient care while addressing paths to diversify revenue. Partnering with 13 other health systems helps bolster innovation at scale.”