Connecticut Innovations and Hartford HealthCare Announce Partnership

Connecticut Innovations (CI) and Hartford HealthCare (HHC) today signed an agreement to partner on accelerating digital health solutions and innovative healthcare technologies developed in Connecticut. The agreement formalizes an existing productive relationship between the two organizations, and will allow them to use their respective expertise to identify and invest in companies that are developing solutions to improve health outcomes.

CI is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm and the leading source of financing and ongoing support for innovative, growing companies. HHC will provide clinical expertise to enable healthcare innovators to test their concepts and products, accelerate their work, and bring safe, cost-effective healthcare solutions to market.

“We’re thrilled to work with Hartford HealthCare and make it easier for our portfolio companies to work and conduct pilots,” said Matt McCooe, CI’s chief executive officer. “This is win-win-win: Our companies will have the chance to work with HHC’s innovative healthcare team; HHC will work with our companies and provide solutions that can be put to work to enhance care; and CI will build closer relationships and an easier pathway to expand the adoption of proven technology.”

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The announcement was made during HHC’s “Innovation Week,” which celebrates how the system is developing advanced tools, working with pioneering partners and advancing fresh approaches to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, equitable and excellent for the people and communities it serves.

Read more about this exciting partnership here.