The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.  OCE invests in - Industry-Academic collaborative research - Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies - Early stage seed financing of start-ups - Skills development for high quality personnel  The Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

Ontario Centres of Excellence

iGan Partners, along with its sister fund Rowanwood Ventures, invests in emerging tech companies.  With a focus on Digital Health and B2B SaaS, we invest in dynamic management teams, empowering them to build impactful businesses. We have built large successful companies and understand the challenges facing growing businesses, having faced them ourselves. We provide early stage companies with smart capital, a unique active management approach and exclusive access to a network of industry partners and sector specific co-investors to help them succeed.

iGan Partners

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) is an early stage venture capital firm based in Toronto. Since 2008, we have partnered with over 150 companies built by extraordinary founders. For more information, please visit www.marsiaf.com

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund

Radical Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs applying deep technology to transform massive industries. With a primary focus on artificial intelligence, Radical Ventures partners with entrepreneurs with global ambition to build enduring companies. The firm is based in Toronto, Canada, with offices in London (UK), and Palo Alto (US)

Radical Ventures

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets.  Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Crosslink Capital

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We're here to support founders who are building the future. It is our job to take big risks on the world's most talented, driven and resilient founding teams who want to change the world.

Golden Ventures

Vast Ventures they invest in consumer brands, AI and cloud software, and more.

Vast Ventures

A curriculum that begins with the fundamentals but is then rich in interdisciplinary learning opportunities, clinics that teach law students how to be lawyers who make a difference, and programs and centers that catalyze scholarship, research, and dialogue on important issues — these are the forums through which Stanford Law shapes the future.  Coursework Stanford Law School's course offerings provide a solid foundation in legal theory while also making it possible to cultivate expertise in any legal specialty our students might choose—from economics and business, to science and technology, to international law and public service. Students can pursue an established joint degree, customize a degree, or explore law's intersection with other disciplines through team-taught courses and academic concentrations.  Clinical Education Stanford Law School pioneered clinical education in the 1970s. Today, we continue that tradition of innovation through nine legal clinics that, under the guidance of faculty mentors, test and sharpen students' lawyering skills, expand their perspectives, and cultivate the values that make for effective, ethical attorneys.

Stanford Law School

Union Ventures

Marble

Marble provides businesses with API to facilitate access to patient-consented health data. The company provides solution that links to an extensive health data network, serving legal, consumer health, insurance, and life sciences industries.

Marble (formerly known as MedChart) is a company that provides a powerful API platform to simplify access to patient-authorized digital health data for various industries and applications. Their API technology allows developers to navigate the complex health data ecosystem, manage patient authorization and consent, and access a vast network of data sources, including electronic medical records (EMRs), health information exchanges (HIEs), release of information vendors, and payors. The company empowers law firms to practice more profitably by dramatically reducing the time spent preparing medical data requests from four months to one day. In July 2022, law firms were using Marble's API to authenticate claimants and retrieve medical data in three mass tort cases: Camp Lejeune water contamination, 3 million earplugs, and manufacturers of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF). Marble's technology also enables businesses to meet HIPAA compliance and other privacy mandates while realizing the benefits of the 21st Century Cures Act, which requires US healthcare organizations to make health data available to patients and third parties via secure, standards-based APIs.

Marble Authenticates Victims Involved in the Camp Lejeune, 3M and Firefighting Foam Mass Tort Cases

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James Bateman, CEO and Co-founder of Marble, on Linking Patients to Healthcare Ecosystems

Non-Healthcare Organizations Need Health Data Too. Marble Wants to Help.

Marble Simplifies Development of a New Generation of Digital Health Applications and Experiences

Enabling the health systems to seamlessly connect, exchange, and interpret shared data

Hospital Interoperability

The Zebra Announces Strategic Acquisition of Insurance Management Platform Marble

Marble (formerly known as MedChart) is a company that provides a powerful API platform to simplify access to patient-authorized digital health data for various industries and applications. Their API technology allows developers to navigate the complex health data ecosystem, manage patient authorization and consent, and access a vast network of data sources, including electronic medical records (EMRs), health information exchanges (HIEs), release of information vendors, and payors. The company empowers law firms to practice more profitably by dramatically reducing the time spent preparing medical data requests from four months to one day. In July 2022, law firms were using Marble's API to authenticate claimants and retrieve medical data in three mass tort cases: Camp Lejeune water contamination, 3 million earplugs, and manufacturers of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF). Marble's technology also enables businesses to meet HIPAA compliance and other privacy mandates while realizing the benefits of the 21st Century Cures Act, which requires US healthcare organizations to make health data available to patients and third parties via secure, standards-based APIs.
Key customers and partnerships
In the ongoing Purdue opioid litigation, Marble's customers include law firms representing nearly 40% of all US claimants. The company has recently developed partnerships with companies like HealthBird and RiteAid, and their MedChart product is being used in a large mass tort lawsuit against Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.

Redox is a leading healthcare technology company that provides a secure and efficient platform for exchanging healthcare data. Its core offering is an integration engine that enables seamless connectivity between various healthcare systems, electronic health records (EHRs), and digital health applications. By acting as a single, standardized API endpoint, Redox simplifies the complex process of interoperability, allowing healthcare organizations to share and access patient data seamlessly.
Redox's platform is built on a standardized data model format, utilizing HTTPS communication with JSON to facilitate secure and convenient integration for healthcare applications. The company's ecosystem encompasses a vast network of over 2,000 healthcare delivery organizations, 350 healthcare software vendors, and connections to more than 90 EHR systems. This extensive reach enables Redox's customers, including payers, providers, and digital health companies, to exchange data with a wide range of healthcare stakeholders.
The company's offerings include Redox Nexus, a managed integration platform that facilitates interoperability between legacy formats and the current FHIR standard; Redox Nova, which enables cloud-based data integration and translation of legacy standards into FHIR; Redox Access, which connects to national clinical networks like Carequality and DirectTrust for seamless clinical data exchange; and Redox Chroma, an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) solution that aggregates patient records across multiple data sources.
Key customers and partnerships
Redox has established partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and companies, including Mytonomy, a video-based patient engagement company. Mytonomy leverages Redox's integration capabilities to synchronize the assignment and viewership of its educational video modules with health system EHRs, ensuring seamless documentation of patient education activities.
Furthermore, Redox has collaborated with Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Cardiology, enabling the integration of Mytonomy's patient education platform with the center's EHR system.
The company has also forged alliances with healthcare consulting firms like Productive Edge, providing joint solutions for healthcare data integration and strategy development.

Redox

Moxe Health, based in Madison, WI, is a healthcare interoperability company that utilizes innovative technology to simplify and improve the secure exchange of clinical data and crucial insights between healthcare payers and providers. Through its API-enabled solutions compatible with leading electronic health records (EHRs), Moxe fosters meaningful collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem by connecting various stakeholders and facilitating faster, more cost-effective data exchange.
The company's digital release of information (ROI) product automates requests for medical charts, enabling providers to securely fulfill such requests in seconds, eliminating manual processes, paper, faxes, and phone calls. Additionally, Moxe's convergence product allows payers to input their insights directly into the EHR for providers to access. By streamlining data sharing, Moxe empowers providers and payers to optimize operations, improve accuracy, and deliver better financial and clinical outcomes.
As of June 2022, Moxe's network connected major health systems, national health plans representing over 75 million lives, leading third-party requestors, and more than 60 hospital systems. The company aimed to accelerate its mission of advancing interoperability and making healthcare more affordable by eliminating administrative waste through its patient-centric solutions.
Key customers and partnerships
Moxe Health partners with leading healthcare organizations, including Allscripts, whose Allscripts Sunrise EHR users can leverage Moxe's Digital ROI solution for efficient data exchange between health systems, payers, and third-party requestors.

Moxe Health

Particle Health is a developer-friendly API platform that aggregates and standardizes data from over 270 million patients' medical records across thousands of healthcare sources in the US. The company's comprehensive API enables healthcare providers and digital health companies to easily obtain clinical data points and actionable patient health insights through a single integration. Particle Health's technology performs patient matching behind the scenes to connect accounts within HIPAA authorization, overcoming the challenges of accessing medical records across different portals and providers.
Since its inception, Particle Health has achieved significant milestones, including a 90% success rate in finding patient records and an average of 105 records per patient search as of July 2022. The company has expanded its offering beyond electronic medical records (EMRs) to include data sources such as pharmacy records, admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications, and billing claims data, with plans to integrate genomics and other sources in the future.
Key customers and partnerships
Particle Health has formed notable partnerships and collaborations with various healthcare companies and organizations. For instance, xCures, a technology platform that uses artificial intelligence and predictive modeling to identify and rank treatment options for cancer patients, has integrated Particle Health's Specialty Search capabilities. This integration allows xCures to efficiently access comprehensive oncology data, leading to a significant increase in program enrollment and better patient care management.
Another strategic partnership was announced in November 2023 between Particle Health and Hona, a customizable AI product that converts health records into concise patient overviews. By integrating Particle Health's API for medical record retrieval, Hona can analyze and present a complete view of a patient's health history, enabling providers to make informed clinical decisions and streamline care encounters.

Particle Health

Verto Health is a Canadian digital health company that offers a Digital Twin Orchestration Platform. Its patented machine learning technology consolidates data from various sources to create normalized, contextual snapshots – known as 'Digital Twins' – of each patient's healthcare journey. Verto's platform then automates actions across different systems while securely managing consent, data, and communication.
In October 2022, Unity Health Toronto implemented Verto's technology to help manage ambulatory patient flow, streamline consent management, and transform patient experience across dozens of ambulatory clinics. Verto's solution allowed Unity Health to coordinate and engage with patients before, during, after, and in-between hospital visits, supporting care pathway management and enhancing the patient experience.
Key customers and partnerships
In July 2023, Verto Health partnered with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to develop a web-based Digital Front Door platform. This platform aimed to digitize the patient journey and support data-driven, measurement-based care for CAMH's patients and care providers. The collaboration involved co-designing, configuring, and implementing the Digital Front Door to act as a single-point of entry for CAMH patients and families, enabling virtual care and integrating various patient-facing information systems.

Verto Health

Wellsheet is the leading provider of a Smart Electronic Health Record (EHR) User Interface (UI) solution that aims to reduce clinician burnout and increase efficiency and usability of EHRs. The company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to synthesize, summarize, and elevate relevant clinical data from EHRs like Cerner, Epic, or athenahealth, as well as other data sources.Wellsheet's Smart EHR UI predicts and prioritizes the most pertinent data based on a clinician's specialty and workflow habits, assembling it in an intuitive and customizable manner. This enables providers to quickly arrive at accurate clinical insights without compromising patient interactions. By embedding within existing EHRs, the solution helps clinicians understand what needs to be done and make more informed decisions while reducing errors.As of July 2022, Wellsheet had an enterprise-wide deployment with over 10,000 clinicians using its interface, reducing the time spent in EHRs for physicians, nurses, and care managers. The company's FHIR-based APIs allow for rapid implementation across multiple data sources within weeks and minimal training requirements.

Wellsheet

Includes tools that allow healthcare providers to aggregate clinical data (both structured and unstructured) from a variety of sources and share this information with other providers, patients, or insurance providers.

Platforms that provide interoperability APIs and developer toolkits that allow siloed healthcare applications or systems to communicate with each other. Targeted at both healthcare providers and digital health apps.

Software platforms that integrate patient information (including social determinants of health) from multiple sources to digital tools. These tools support patient management and offer actionable insights on a patient's health by leveraging data analytics.

Healthcare data is exchanged, shared, and interpreted via digital mediums

AI/ML algorithms aggregate and standardize data for seamless sharing between healthcare systems

IoT technology is being used to improve hospital interoperability, connectivity, and secure data sharing

Marble

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