WELL Ventures Launches The WELL AI Investment Program
WELL Health Technologies Corp. (OTCQX: WHTCF) announced the launch of the WELL AI Investment Program, aimed at investing in early-stage AI companies that enhance healthcare provider tools. The initiative will involve at least 10 investments, each exceeding $250,000, and focuses on technologies improving efficiency and patient outcomes. WELL Ventures seeks to leverage its extensive ecosystem, including a network of over 23,000 healthcare providers, to support investees. Collaborating with Canada Health Infoway ensures adherence to national data standards, enhancing the interoperability of products developed through this program. WELL Ventures is fully funded for these investments, and while no specific timeline is set, the company intends to start making investments in 2023.
- Launching the WELL AI Investment Program to invest in early-stage AI companies.
- Investing a minimum of $2.5 million in AI healthcare applications and data protection.
- Access to a network of over 23,000 healthcare providers, enhancing support for investees.
- Collaboration with Canada Health Infoway to ensure compliance with national standards.
- None.
- WELL to invest in and help proliferate AI inspired applications that support healthcare providers with next generation tools.
- WELL's goal is to make a minimum of 10 AI related investments of at least
$250 k each.
VANCOUVER, BC and TORONTO, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Ventures a subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) (the "Company" or "WELL"), a digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce the launch of a new investment program, The WELL AI Investment Program, focused on artificial intelligence ("AI") and its applications in helping support healthcare providers with next generation tools .
The WELL AI Investment Program will focus on early-stage AI companies who demonstrate promising innovation, and a clear focus on using AI technologies that can help healthcare providers with innovative tools or applications designed to improve their efficiency, accuracy and ultimately help them deliver better patient outcomes. Data protection and cybersecurity applications will also be considered as this is a key part of WELL's practitioner enablement platform.
"The prevalence of AI technology in healthcare will usher in perhaps the most transformational technologies we've ever seen in terms of supplying and supporting healthcare providers with tools that help improve the accuracy, efficiency and proactivity of care while also delivering significantly better patient outcomes," said Hamed Shahbazi, Founder and CEO of WELL Health Technologies. "WELL wants to ensure that it is at the forefront of this movement, not just as a developer and user of AI, but also as a partner to other innovative companies seeking to advance the health technology industry. What makes The WELL AI Investment Program unique, besides being the first healthcare centric AI investment program in Canada, is that WELL is not just looking to provide capital but also leverage its own products, distribution and significant size and scale to help advance the proliferation of the best AI inspired health focussed technologies. "
The WELL AI Investment Program will provide investees with capital as well as extensive support from WELL's ecosystem to help develop, test, refine, secure, de-risk and integrate the most promising such technologies into the Canadian healthcare ecosystem at scale. Additionally, WELL will provide investees access to the 23,000+ care providers who make use of its apps.health ecosystem, operated by its Provider Solutions Business Unit.
In recognition of WELL's longstanding work with Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), an independent, not-for-profit organization funded by the federal government, Infoway will collaborate with WELL on advancing interoperability as part of the WELL AI investment Program in Canadian start-ups. Infoway will provide guidance on security, privacy, interoperability, and other data standards. This partnership will ensure that resulting products and services meet pan-Canadian standards and can effectively serve the needs of providers and patients.
WELL's aims to achieve the following through the investment program:
- Make a minimum of 10 AI related investments of at least
$250 k each in companies that are advancing healthcare applications and/or protecting data. - Ensure that each Investee has a strategic alliance agreement with WELL that allows it to benefit from WELL's healthcare ecosystem which includes:
- Its apps.health ecosystem, which is Canada's only app marketplace for integrated EMR apps, and/or
- access to the 23,000+ provider network supported by WELL's digital and services tools and the 2,800+ providers working internally in WELL's own patient services businesses.
WELL Ventures is already fully funded for making these investments directly from WELL's overall treasury position. While there is no defined timeline for these investments, it is WELL's intention to make a number of these investments in 2023.
WELL is a leader in tech-enabling Canadian healthcare, and through WELL Ventures, WELL has already placed numerous investments in early-stage companies focussed on providing tools and enablement (including AI) for healthcare providers in Canada, the US, and abroad.
For more information on, or to express interest in the WELL AI Investment Program, please email corpdev@well.company or visit https://well.ventures for more information on WELL Ventures.
WELL is a practitioner-focused digital healthcare company. WELL's overarching mission is to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally. WELL exists to enable healthcare practitioners with best-in-class technology and services. WELL has built the most comprehensive end-to-end healthcare system across Canada including the nation's largest network of clinics supporting primary care, specialized care, and diagnostics services. In the United States, WELL provides omni-channel healthcare services and solutions targeting specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal market, women's health, primary care, and mental disorders. In addition to providing patient services, WELL develops, integrates, and sells its own suite of technology software and solutions to medical clinics and healthcare practitioners. WELL's practitioner enablement platform includes: Electronic Medical Records ("EMR"), telehealth platforms, practice management, billing, Revenue Cycle Management ("RCM"), digital health apps and data protection solutions. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
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