NextGen Invent, a Straive Company, has joined the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation’s Innovators’ Network as the AI and technology services company looks to collaborate on the development of evidence-based digital health solutions.
Focused on AI Strategy, AI Enablement, Digital Transformation, and Technology Transformation, NextGen Invent works with organizations looking to integrate artificial intelligence and modern data technologies into their operations.
Now, the company is joining a consortium that brings together entrepreneurs, healthcare providers, researchers, and payers working on technologies aimed at improving cardiovascular and brain health.
The American Heart Association’s Innovators’ Network is part of the Center for Health Technology & Innovation, which focuses on building relationships across the health technology ecosystem to develop innovative and scalable solutions.
For companies building digital healthcare technologies, one of the challenges is not simply developing the technology itself.
They also need evidence that those technologies can improve healthcare outcomes.
That is where the Innovators’ Network comes in.
Members have the opportunity to access the Association’s digital evidence-based scientific guidelines and clinical recommendations as they develop digital healthcare technologies.
They can also collaborate with the Center on clinical outcome studies, potentially reducing the significant cost of developing those studies independently while helping connect scientific evidence with technology.
For providers and payers, that evidence can be particularly important when determining whether a digital platform can deliver meaningful improvements in healthcare.
“The Center for Health Technology & Innovation is dedicated to fostering the rapid, efficient and impactful development of healthcare technology,” said Robert A. Harrington, M.D., FAHA, volunteer past president of the American Heart Association (2019-2020), chair of the American Heart Association’s Health Tech Advisory Group for the Center, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University.
“By joining the Innovators’ Network, members can tap into the consortium to broaden and enhance their engagement in this transformative field.”
Bringing AI and healthcare expertise together
For NextGen Invent, joining the network provides an opportunity to collaborate with other organizations working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
The company describes itself as an AI-first organization with experience across healthcare and life sciences, alongside capabilities in AI strategy, scalable AI enablement, AI governance, and modern data platforms.
Those capabilities are increasingly relevant as healthcare organizations explore how AI can move from experimentation into real-world applications.
But deploying AI in healthcare also introduces challenges around governance, data, clinical evidence, and the ability to demonstrate measurable outcomes.
The Innovators’ Network is designed to bring some of those pieces together by connecting technology companies with the scientific and clinical expertise needed to develop and validate digital health solutions.
NextGen Invent CEO Deepak Mittal said the company sees the network as an opportunity to work alongside other innovators while contributing its experience in AI and healthcare technology.
“We are excited to join the American Heart Association’s® Innovators’ Network, as it provides opportunities to collaborate with others innovating in the health technology space,” said Deepak Mittal, CEO of NextGen Invent, a Straive Company.
“As an AI-first organization with deep healthcare and life sciences experience along with expertise in AI strategy, scalable AI enablement, AI governance, and modern data platforms, backed by strong thought leadership, we value the opportunity for the advancement of evidence-based digital health innovation.”
The partnership comes as healthcare technology companies increasingly look beyond the development of AI models and digital platforms toward demonstrating how those technologies can translate into better outcomes.
For NextGen Invent, the Innovators’ Network provides a way to connect its AI and technology capabilities with a broader healthcare innovation ecosystem.
And for the American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation, bringing technology companies into the network is part of its effort to help move evidence-based digital health solutions from development toward real-world adoption.
In that sense, the collaboration is about more than adding another technology company to a healthcare consortium.
It reflects a broader shift in digital health, where the ability to build an AI-powered solution is only one part of the challenge. Demonstrating that it can work safely, effectively, and improve outcomes is becoming just as important.
Disclosure: This article mentions a client of an Espacio portfolio company.
