Nina Capital invests in io Health, an AI-driven care solutions company.

Uncertainty isn’t the end of healthcare—it’s the beginning of what comes next. “Closures aren’t just endings—they’re signals. They point us toward where healthcare innovation is most needed.” Across the country, EMS agencies and hospitals are facing uncertainty. Staffing shortages, financial pressures, and closures are creating real challenges for communities. But these challenges are also sparking creativity. We’re seeing new models take shape: telehealth expanding access in rural areas, mobile care units meeting patients where they are, and community partnerships building stronger networks of support. Uncertainty doesn’t just test healthcare—it pushes us to reimagine it. Together, we have the chance to turn crisis into innovation and gaps into opportunities. As a community, what creative solutions have you seen—or would like to see—that help keep care accessible when resources are limited?

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 & 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 🔗 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: https://lnkd.in/dez7NAE8 The Healthcare Services Market in 2025 continues to evolve as digital health, telemedicine, and AI-driven diagnostics redefine how patients access and receive care. With growing investments in personalized medicine, home healthcare, and connected health platforms, the industry is rapidly embracing innovation to improve outcomes, efficiency, and accessibility. Hospitals and clinics are integrating advanced analytics, automation, and virtual care models to deliver value-based care worldwide. From 2026 to 2032, the market is expected to see strong expansion as aging populations, chronic disease management, and health tech adoption accelerate. The shift toward integrated healthcare ecosystems, data interoperability, and preventive care models will further enhance the sustainability and scalability of global health systems. 𝐊𝐞𝐲-𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬: Mayo Clinic | Cleveland Clinic | UnitedHealth Group | Kaiser Permanente | HCA Healthcare | CVS Health | Tenet Healthcare | Community Health Systems | Apollo Hospitals | Fortis Healthcare | Ramsay Health Care | Fresenius Medical Care | GE HealthCare | Siemens Healthineers | Medtronic | Philips | Cerner Corporation | Allscripts | Teladoc Health | Cigna Healthcare | Optum | Humana | Sutter Health | Intermountain Health | Ascension #HealthcareServices #DigitalHealth #Telemedicine #HealthTech #PatientCare #HospitalManagement #AIinHealthcare #RemoteMonitoring #MedicalInnovation #HealthSystem #HealthcareDelivery #GlobalHealthcare #ValueBasedCare #ChronicDiseaseManagement #HealthEcosystem #MedicalTechnology #HealthcareTransformation #Telehealth #EHealth #HealthcareIndustry #HealthAnalytics #PersonalizedCare #DigitalCare #MedicalTrends #FutureOfHealthcare

#Prioritising #Patient #Care #While #Ensuring #Business #Vitality #in #Healthcare In healthcare, the phrase "it's a business" often carries a negative connotation, especially when juxtaposed with "patient care." However, the truth is, a financially healthy hospital is a hospital that can continue to provide exceptional patient care, invest in new technologies, and retain top talent. The challenge lies in finding the synergy where business strategies directly enhance patient care, rather than detract from it. Here’s how we can align these crucial elements: 1. Invest in Efficiencies that Benefit Patients: • Technology: Implementing AI for diagnostics, telehealth platforms, or streamlined EMRs reduces wait times, improves accuracy, and frees up staff to spend more time at the bedside. • Process Improvement: Lean methodologies can eliminate waste in operations, allowing resources to be reallocated to patient-facing services or staff training. 2. Transparent Value-Based Care Models: • Shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care incentivizes outcomes over volume. This aligns financial goals with patient well-being, focusing on preventive care, chronic disease management, and reducing readmissions. • Clearly communicating treatment costs and expected outcomes builds trust and reduces patient financial stress. 3. Empower Staff, Elevate Care: • A strong business invests in its people. Competitive compensation, robust training, and a supportive work environment reduce burnout, improve retention, and directly translate to more compassionate and skilled patient care. • Empowering frontline staff to make patient-centered decisions, and providing them with the necessary resources, strengthens both care quality and operational effectiveness. The ultimate goal is not a choice between business and patient care, but a strategic integration. When business operations are optimized, it creates a stable foundation upon which truly exceptional, patient-centered care can flourish. What strategies have you seen successfully bridge this gap in your organization? #HealthcareManagement #PatientCare #BusinessStrategy #HealthcareLeadership #ValueBasedCare #HospitalOperations

My thoughts on Clover Health’s CMS Stars downgrade: While the downgrade of Clover’s PPO plans to 3.5 Stars is making headlines, the actual impact on the trajectory of their business is negligible. Clover's unique differentiator in their MA plan has always been superior clinical outcomes. In that regard, their performance was still exceptional (HEDIS at 4.71), which gives me confidence that the technology is working. In my view, Clover’s MA plan has always been meant to be a tool to develop the technology (Clover Assistant) and serve as a proof of concept. While their MA plan is generating profit, and those profits will continue to expand year after year, the real growth engine in Clover’s business is now shifting to Counterpart Health. Counterpart Assistant is rapidly becoming a tool that is changing the game in value-based care. It’s becoming the solution to improving outcomes and reducing costs on a nationwide scale for national MA plans, ACOs, and rural physician practices. As a future physician, I can clearly see the utility of Counterpart Assistant for practitioners. It enables clinicians to effortlessly have a clear, comprehensive picture of the patient without spending hours a day looking through records. When your doctor has all the right data at their fingertips, they can make better patient care decisions, work more efficiently, and spend more time with patients. Documentation is done automatically, and the Assistant generates relevant insights and brings them up to you during the encounter so that you can ask the right questions and close care gaps you may have otherwise missed. That’s the real value behind Clover’s business. It’s not about creating an MA plan that scores high on administrative measures, it’s about creating and scaling technology that’s already changing how care is delivered on a national scale. I’m excited to see where this evolution leads us both as a clinician and an investor in healthcare innovation. #HealthcareInnovation, #ValueBasedCare, #CloverHealth

We're finally seeing healthcare transformation move from buzzwords to real action. The inaugural Innov8 Health Conference in Boston brought together practical implementers and forward-thinkers focused on transforming how and where healthcare is delivered, and the conversations were as actionable as they were inspiring. Key insights that resonated with me: "Build for ecosystem, not for pilot" - Stop creating one-off solutions. Healthcare needs scalable, integrated platforms that work across the continuum. The Command Center Revolution - Multiple health systems highlighted centralized care orchestration as the key to managing decentralized delivery. (Mayo's model of 7 programs built around one command center is one great example.) Design Thinking = 300% ROI - Loved the analogy: "Spend 55 minutes understanding the problem, 5 minutes solving it." We proved this with 200 questions originating about a mundane object in 30 seconds! "To make patients' lives easier, make clinicians' lives easier" - Technology should reduce administrative burden, not create more work. Ambient AI and predictive analytics are finally delivering on this promise. Value-Based Care Reality Check - Quality redefined as "Right care, at the Right time, to the Right patient, in the Right setting." The focus on continuous days at home as an outcome metric was particularly powerful. The passion for solving real problems - from payment system complexities to medical decisions made by non-medical people - was palpable in every session. Bottom line: Healthcare transformation isn't just about the technology - it's about reimagining care delivery with the patient journey at the center and giving frontline providers the tools they actually need. And it was reassuring to see our efforts at Azodha in complete alignment with addressing the core care delivery needs. Special thanks to the speakers from Intermountain Health, Mayo Clinic, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Jefferson Health, Ochsner Health, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Saint Luke's Health System, Advocate Health, UPMC and many more for sharing their real-world experiences and honest lessons learned. David Guidry, Michael Maniaci, Stephen C. Dorner, Sarah Schenck, Alexander Fortenko, Amy Wright, Dan Shields, Andres Solorza, Justin Pasila, Matthew Anderson, Jatin Dave, Eric Alper, Smita Sawant #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #ValueBasedCare #HealthTech #CareDelivery #HospitalAtHome #Telehealth #VirtualCare

I am thrilled to announce the launch of Altira Health: to transform the way clinicians communicate with patients at scale. Before launching Altira, my cofounder, Matt Wollerman, and I worked together at Carbon Health, building tools used daily by 3,000+ clinicians and 6,000 patients per day. That experience taught us a critical lesson: the right technology has to serve both sides of the equation - easing clinician workload while meaningfully engaging patients. Working day in and day out alongside clinicians, a key gap in our healthcare system became impossible to ignore: more than half of discharged patients never get a follow-up. This means patients are left alone at their most vulnerable moments and clinicians are drowning in work they don’t have the hours to finish. The gap doesn’t just cost lives and trust, it adds more than $80B in avoidable spending every year. When we looked at the advances in voice AI, it felt like the right moment to try something bold: conversations that sound and feel nurse-like, but can scale to every patient who needs them. That became Altira.
 Not another reminder bot or dashboard.
But a way to follow up with patients automatically, flag risks early, and give care teams time back - all built with clinical safety and privacy at the core. Altira is a small but mighty team of six — builders and clinicians from Carbon Health, Kaiser, Homeward, and Accolade. Together, we are closing the gaps patients and care teams feel every day, with agents already making **hundreds of patient calls daily** to help health plans and systems improve outcomes and quality scores without adding staff burden. We are fortunate to have raised a healthy pre-seed round from top early stage investors as we take this next step. For now, I’m just grateful to the mentors, friends, and early partners who believed this could work, and to the patients and clinicians who remind us why it has to. At Altira, we believe care doesn’t end at discharge. It continues beyond the doors. This mandate has already resonated with countless health plans and systems across the country. We are growing rapidly, and have space for just two more pilots this quarter. If your team is ready to rethink patient engagement, let’s talk (my calendar link in comments).

🚨 Leadership Moves at Counterpart Health: Powering Value-Based Care with AI 🚨 Counterpart Health, Inc. — a wholly owned subsidiary of Clover Health and a trailblazer in AI-powered physician enablement — is scaling up. The company just announced two strategic leadership appointments to fuel its next phase of growth: 🔹 Blaine Lindsey joins as VP of Enterprise Growth & Partnerships, bringing deep experience from Aledade, Honest Health, and AnsibleHealth to expand national risk-bearing partnerships. 🔹 Shannon Jacobs steps in as President of Market Operations – Gulf Region, following his success at Main Street Health, to drive operational excellence across one of the most diverse and underserved healthcare markets in the U.S. These appointments come at a time when many primary care providers still lack the infrastructure to succeed in value-based care — especially in rural and underserved areas. That’s where Counterpart Assistant (CA) steps in: an AI-powered solution that integrates directly into clinical workflows, helping providers: ✔️ Identify high-risk patients ✔️ Manage chronic conditions proactively ✔️ Scale value-based care without adding burden 💬 “Whether it’s large health systems or rural independent practices, the need is the same: actionable intelligence that improves care without overwhelming providers,” said Conrad Wai, CEO of Counterpart Health. As Counterpart continues to expand beyond Clover’s Medicare Advantage footprint, these new leaders will be instrumental in forging partnerships, optimizing market performance, and delivering measurable impact. 📌 More than a platform — it’s a movement to modernize primary care with AI. #AIinHealthcare #ValueBasedCare #HealthTech #PrimaryCare #Leadership #CloverHealth #CounterpartAssistant #HealthcareInnovation

Big News at IO Health! We’re thrilled to announce that io Health has raised $2.5M in seed funding, led by the visionary team at Nina Capital, with participation from a fantastic group of healthcare operators and early-stage backers. Our mission at IO Health is bold: To radically simplify how post-acute and home-based care teams collaborate, communicate, and close care gaps - without ripping out existing systems. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/g-B6gJYE With this funding, we’ll be accelerating the growth of ioAssist, our AI-driven care coordination layer that supports skilled nursing, home health, and senior housing providers by: ✅ Reducing care transition failures ✅ Simplifying documentation workflows ✅ Enhancing reimbursement and regulatory readiness ✅ Supporting frontline teams - where care actually happens We’re not building “another EHR.” We’re building the intelligence layer that empowers the people and systems already in place. A huge thank you to #NinaCapital and to every partner who believes in this mission. We’re especially grateful to the SNF operators, case managers, and caregivers who’ve helped us shape ioAssist from day one. If you’re working to improve post-acute workflows, drive VBC in senior care, or explore tech that actually helps care teams - we’d love to connect.  Let’s reimagine post-acute care together. www.iohealth.ai #SeedRound #DigitalHealth #PostAcuteCare #HealthcareInnovation #AIinHealthcare #CareTransitions #ValueBasedCare #SNF #HomeHealth #SeniorCare #HealthTech

As the costs of healthcare continue to rise unabated, payors and providers are rethinking models of collaboration. From partnering with community groups to address social determinants of health (SDOH) to working with tech vendors to integrate AI capabilities to streamline operations and prior authorization, relationships are evolving. Learn more in this article in Senior Executive featuring insights from Eugene Zabolotsky Feri Naseh, MBA Ryan Paugh and myself. #HealthTech #healthcare #HealthCareThinkTank #innovation #AI

Koda Health Secures $7M to Scale AI-Enhanced Patient Decision Platform - HIT Consultant Koda Health has secured $7M in Series A funding to enhance its AI-driven patient decision support platform, aimed at transforming serious illness care. Founded by Tatiana Fofanova, PhD, and Desh Mohan, MD, Koda addresses a critical gap in healthcare, reducing wasteful spending and ensuring patient preferences guide care. With partnerships supporting over a million patients, Koda's platform has demonstrated significant outcomes, including a 79% reduction in terminal hospitalizations and a 42% decrease in care costs. This funding will enable Koda to expand its reach and product offerings, aligning care with patient values. #HealthcareIT #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #PatientEngagement #ValueBasedCare #HealthTech #AdvanceCarePlanning ai.mediformatica.com #health #platform #this #kodahealth #scale #medical #decisionsupport #digital #digitalhealth #funding #healthsystems #partners #healthit #healthtech #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/VvbHSQY)