Baptist an LP, KSCF history, BMES & UK Healthcare, centenarians, more...! 🖱️

Healthcare through a Kentucky lens. It's niche. But neat!

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Andrew Steen
September 29, 2026

I’m not going to it, either, but the Sunday of Furnace Fest in Bham—💪 

Healthcare Innovation Venture Fund

ICYMI. I did.

“In May 2026, Baptist Health System, Inc., of Kentucky & Southern Indiana joined the fund as the second limited partner, and the fund was renamed the Healthcare Innovation Venture Fund (HIVF).”

WakeMed Innovation Fund | Hatteras Venture Partners

The WakeMed Innovation Venture Fund invests in healthcare technologies that improve patient outcomes, efficiency, and care delivery.

hatterasvp.com/healthcare-innovation-venture-fund

Well. Cool.

Remember the Kentucky Seed Capital Fund? It was formed in 2005, was based in Louisville and invested in “life sciences” companies.

Life science fund raises $5 million for startup companies

By Ed Green – Business First Staff Writer
Jul 19, 2005

www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2005/07/18/daily14.html

Baptist was an LP in it, too.

Droppin’ science.

Digital Health VCs with Kentucky Investments

And, more on venture capital investments from an article posted over on LinkedIn. I don’t usually cross-post, so be sure you are following on LinkedIn. too.

Digital Health VCs with Kentucky Investments

The inspiration for this article came from this September 22, 2026 piece by Halle Tecco. It includes a link to a searchable Digital Health Investor Database.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-health-vcs-kentucky-investments-liverpoollane-com-u7dbe

BMES

This is cool. Louisville-based BMES working with UK Healthcare.

And I will venture a guess that most of you haven’t heard of Bio-Medical Equipment Service Co.

How UK HealthCare Recaptured 30 Weeks of Biomedical Staff Time by Outsourcing Equipment Repairs to BMES – BMES

BMES

BMES is strategically located right next to UPS Worldport.

Exposome ⇄ Centenarians

Smart read.

Think Christina Lee Brown Envirome institute meets aging.

The Centenarian Terms Have Changed: Exposome Considerations in Centenarian Aspirations

This article highlights how lessons from centenarians who were born in the late 1800s and early 1900s did not have the same life course exposome exposure as those born later, and that this has implications for those striving to be centenarians in the 21st century who will have to contend with a life

www.linkedin.com/pulse/centenarian-terms-have-changed-exposome-aspirations-kostopoulos-phd-ezwde

AI ROI

This is from a September 17, 2026 report from Define Ventures. Payors and providers rank AI evaluation criteria quite differently at the top.

Healthcare innovation. For Louisville, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond.

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