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We’re excited to announce the nine founding members of our Digital Consortium:  Endeavor Health, Indiana University Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Northwell Health, Novant Health, Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Sharp HealthCare, Stanford Health Care. This marks a pivotal moment in Aegis Ventures’ journey to address the fundamental challenges in healthcare through collaboration with the nation’s top health systems.  Our past work with Northwell Health has shown the transformative impact that new technologies can have on health system patients and employees when the solutions are driven by the health systems themselves. John Noseworthy, M.D. will bring deep expertise to the Digital Consortium in his role as Chairman. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFQNUxSz

Your next doctor’s appointment could be seamlessly managed by AI, from diagnosis to discharge! Find out how this tech is becoming a reality. 🤖❤️ 🗣 John Beadle, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Aegis Ventures 🎙 https://lnkd.in/g6iF8W8e #PatientCare #AI #SoHCPodcasts

What we think of as modern AI is really a set of different tools all based, effectively, on the concept of artificial neural networks. Over the last decade there’s been a progressive unveiling of different formulations of neural networks: CNNs, RL, transformers and LLMs... These formulations have also progressively unlocked new capabilities—for example, CNNs opened the world of AI-based image processing up to us in the radiology community around 10 years ago and has been transforming the field ever since, well before LLMs and gen AI hit the scene. In short: every once in a while, AI evolves and gets new abilities. While it's hard to predict what's coming next, state space models are shaping out as a promising next step in the evolution of this technology. They can enable lower cost, more accurate AI agents--we explore this further in our new blog post on Towards AI. We’re exploring state space models at Ascertain because we think it is a great fit for agent-led automation tasks in healthcare and beyond. Big thanks to Vineet Tiruvadi, MD, PhD and Marek S. for the incredible work in describing the fundamentals of this tech in our new blog post.

Tune in tomorrow. We're looking forward to an inspiring conversation about the future of healthcare technology, AI, and innovation.

We're excited to be working with Alan H. as an Aegis Venture Fellow! Alan has interests in both clinical medicine and technology, with a focus on ophthalmology and population health. He is a rising second-year at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he serves as a VP for Penn HealthX and conducts research at the Scheie Eye Institute. Prior to medical school, Alan worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 💡What excites you most about the future of healthcare technology? "I am most excited by the potential of healthcare technology to improve health outcomes on a systemic level. Looking ahead, I hope to promote collaboration between clinicians, industry leaders, and academic institutions to ensure that new technologies are applied in ways that are effective and equitable." 😎What do you do for fun? “I like trying new restaurants, listening to live music, and playing the saxophone!” If you are an MD or MBA student interested in building and investing in health tech companies, please reach out!

Check out the brand new podcast 🎧 from Caire Executive Chair, Ash Zenooz, MD along with co-hosts Christina Farr, and Luba Greenwood, J.D. We will be listening in.

The second episode of Consortium Conversations comes out next week. Tune in as our Co-Founder and Managing Partner, John Beadle, sits down with David Feinberg, MD, Chairman of Oracle Health, and Senior Advisor to Aegis Ventures. Dr. Feinberg’s unique career has provided him with an unparalleled perspective on the future of American healthcare and how technology can be leveraged to improve the patient and caregiver experience. In this episode, Dr. Feinberg discusses his time leading two of the nation’s top health systems, Geisinger and UCLA Health, and how those experiences influenced his leadership of Google Health, Cerner, and Oracle Health. Stay tuned for the go-live early next week!