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Healio is a multichannel information platform, providing health care specialists with tailored news, information, and education across 20+ specialties in support of their daily practice of medicine. Healio offers its core News, CME, Clinical Guidance and Community channels, plus the all-new Healio AI tool providing evidence-based intelligence at the point of care.

Medeloop was founded by a surgeon who spent fifteen years on the front lines of patient care. As Acting Chief Surgeon at Montreal’s largest trauma center, Rene Caissie lived the broken workflows, fragmented records, and data gaps that slow research and compromise outcomes. That firsthand experience led him to found Medesync, one of the first web-based EMRs and his first attempt to close the health data gap—which was acquired by TELUS Health, where he served as Medical Director. Rene then came to Silicon Valley to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business, and it was at Stanford that Medeloop took shape: a platform built on the trust, relationships, and deep clinical domain expertise that only come from decades inside the system. Medeloop provides cloud-agnostic, agentic solutions with sovereign access to a federated network of hundreds of millions of patient records. The platform’s Semantic Engine and autonomous AI agents generate, execute, and document full analytical workflows—all benchmarked against gold standards.

Healium is an easy-to-use mental wellness solution for wellness professionals, combining immersive experiences with real-time biometric feedback. It helps patients visibly measure their calm, learn to self-regulate their nervous system, and reduce stress in a way that is engaging, evidence-informed, and repeatable.

UpSkillAI (previously Health Scholars) creates AI-enabled extended reality education, training, and certification for mission-critical, hands-on training in healthcare, higher education, pharma, and defense. Our rapid, custom-build approach allows clients to address their specific, real-world challenges, from powering The American Red Cross ALS certification in VR, to addressing sentinel events at the busiest OB department in the New York, to replacing patient actors with immersive VR for Mayo’s NIH Stroke Scale training. UpSkillAI has published research proving accelerated learning and extended retention when every second counts.

AppliedVR is shaping the future of healthcare by pioneering immersive therapeutics (ITx), a new category of medicine designed to address complex, treatment-resistant conditions affecting millions worldwide. Its flagship product, RelieVRx®, is the first VR-based prescription therapeutic to receive FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and De Novo authorization for chronic lower back pain (CLBP). RelieVRx enables patients to actively manage their pain with a structured, pre-programmed evidence-based therapy program delivered through an intuitive device designed for in-home use.

Persistent Technology (PTI) advances patient care through evidence‑informed digital health solutions, including ReflectXR, a VR‑based immersive arts intervention designed to reduce stress, modulate autonomic response, and support mental and behavioral health treatment plans. As a veteran‑owned healthcare IT organization, PTI integrates secure, reliable engineering with clinically aligned innovation to improve patient outcomes and enhance therapeutic effectiveness across diverse care environments.