Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit healthcare organization that offers a variety of services, including preventive care, emergency care, hospital services, and pharmacy offerings. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Oakland, California, it serves members across multiple states, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The organization is recognized as a leader in the healthcare sector, focusing on comprehensive care that encompasses well-baby and prenatal services, immunizations, and diagnostic screenings. Additionally, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, its venture capital arm established in 1997, invests in innovative healthcare companies in the United States, targeting sectors such as medical devices, therapeutics, health care services, and health care information technology. The venture arm typically invests between $0.5 million and $12 million in companies with significant market potential and prefers to collaborate with other investors in the healthcare space.
Omada Health, Inc. is a digital healthcare company that develops online programs aimed at managing chronic conditions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Atlanta, the company collaborates with employers and health plans to identify individuals at risk for preventable chronic conditions such as prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Omada's programs are personalized to address the evolving needs of participants, offering support in areas like diabetes prevention, type 2 diabetes management, and behavioral health. The company integrates professional health coaching, connected health devices, real-time data, and personalized feedback to achieve clinically significant outcomes. Omada Health is recognized as the largest provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Omada Health, Inc. is a digital healthcare company that develops online programs aimed at managing chronic conditions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Atlanta, the company collaborates with employers and health plans to identify individuals at risk for preventable chronic conditions such as prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Omada's programs are personalized to address the evolving needs of participants, offering support in areas like diabetes prevention, type 2 diabetes management, and behavioral health. The company integrates professional health coaching, connected health devices, real-time data, and personalized feedback to achieve clinically significant outcomes. Omada Health is recognized as the largest provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hemosphere developed and markets the HeRO (Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow) Graft, a proprietary graft-based solution for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) hemodialysis patients with limited access options and central venous obstruction.
The Center for Health Promotion Inc. delivers tobacco cessation and weight management services to customers nationwide. As an operating unit of Group Health Cooperative (Seattle) for almost 20 years, CHP developed the telephone-based Free & Clear program and established itself a national leader in tobacco cessation. Today CHP continues to deliver tobacco cessation services through health plans, businesses and labor organizations around the country. CHP also provides phone-based tobacco cessation services to residents of Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin through contracts with state agencies or coalitions. The company is actively engaged in research trials with major research centers including The Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., the Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., and the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center and Group Health's Center for Health Studies, both in Seattle. This active research is undertaken to help improve CHP's services to smokers and increase scientific understanding of this key health issue.