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Cision Canada
07-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
GreenShield Ventures: Shaping the Future of Healthcare Innovation in Canada Français
TORONTO, May 7, 2025 /CNW/ - GreenShield proudly announces the launch of GreenShield Ventures – an innovation hub dedicated to developing new products and services to revolutionize health outcomes for all Canadians. As Canada's only national non-profit health and benefits company, GreenShield is uniquely positioned to spearhead transformative innovation for the greater good. GreenShield Ventures will harness the ingenuity of its talented developers and intrapreneurs to incubate and build groundbreaking digital solutions in insurance, benefits administration, and healthcare delivery. These forward-thinking solutions will then be embedded and scaled within GreenShield+, Canada's leading integrated health and benefits platform, ensuring a seamless health and benefits experience as new products and services are added. "GreenShield's non-profit social enterprise model – free from shareholder constraints – empowers us to uniquely prioritize the longer-term health and well-being of Canadians," says Zahid Salman, President and CEO, GreenShield. "By leveraging real data insights along with purpose-driven innovation, GreenShield Ventures aims to enhance care, expand access, and break down systemic barriers across Canada's health landscape, furthering our mission of Better Health for All." At the helm of GreenShield Ventures is Luke Vigeant, a visionary Canadian health entrepreneur and product design leader renowned for creating intuitive client experiences. Vigeant is the co-founder and former President of Inkblot Technologies – a mental health platform known for its personalized therapist matching tool and user-centric approach. Vigeant brought his expertise to GreenShield in 2021 when the company acquired Inkblot to become part of GreenShield Health. Vigeant's role was then expanded to oversee the development of a new integrated health and benefits ecosystem, later named GreenShield+. Since then, GreenShield Health has become Canada's fastest-growing digital healthcare providers, integrating mental health, telemedicine, pharmacy and chronic disease management services along with benefits coverage and claims reimbursement into the GreenShield+ ecosystem. "True innovation begins with a deep understanding of patients and plan members," says Luke Vigeant, Senior Vice President, GreenShield Ventures. "GreenShield Ventures places Canadians at the heart of our innovation process – developing and testing solutions within our ecosystem to ensure they meet the evolving needs of those we serve. By validating and then seamlessly integrating our innovations into GreenShield+, we know we are delivering an unparalleled health and benefits experience." Founded in 1957 as a purpose-driven non-profit, GreenShield is committed to reinvesting its excess earnings to directly support the health and well-being of underserved communities. Through GreenShield Cares, the company has committed $75 million to improve the health of over one million Canadians by the end of this year, with a focus on mental health, essential medicines, and chronic disease management. United by a commitment to advancing health equity, GreenShield Ventures will work closely with GreenShield Cares to develop products and services that meet the needs of all Canadians. To learn more about how GreenShield Ventures is leveraging purpose-driven innovation to advance Better Health for All visit GreenShield's website Purpose driven innovation | GreenShield Ventures. About GreenShield As Canada's only national non-profit health and benefits company, GreenShield believes health care is a right, not a privilege. We're dedicated to improving health outcomes, driving systemic change, and building a future where every Canadian can reach their full health and well-being potential. We are revolutionizing the health and benefits experience with coverage and care in one place. Through our unique integrated payer-provider ("payvider") model, we offer insurance, administer benefits and pay claims as a 'payer' while offering health services such as mental health, pharmacy, telemedicine and chronic disease management as a 'provider'. As a non-profit social enterprise without shareholders, we prioritize and reinvest our excess earnings to directly support underserved communities. Through GreenShield Cares, we've committed $75 million to improve the health of over one million Canadians by the end of 2025, focusing on mental health, essential medicines, and chronic disease management. Our scalable initiatives deliver meaningful change in pursuit of Better Health for All. GreenShield is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, a leading Imagine Canada Caring Company, and named on the Fortune's Change the World list.
Associated Press
07-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
GreenShield Ventures: Shaping the Future of Healthcare Innovation in Canada
TORONTO, May 7, 2025 /CNW/ - GreenShield proudly announces the launch of GreenShield Ventures – an innovation hub dedicated to developing new products and services to revolutionize health outcomes for all Canadians. As Canada's only national non-profit health and benefits company, GreenShield is uniquely positioned to spearhead transformative innovation for the greater good. GreenShield Ventures will harness the ingenuity of its talented developers and intrapreneurs to incubate and build groundbreaking digital solutions in insurance, benefits administration, and healthcare delivery. These forward-thinking solutions will then be embedded and scaled within GreenShield+, Canada's leading integrated health and benefits platform, ensuring a seamless health and benefits experience as new products and services are added. 'GreenShield's non-profit social enterprise model – free from shareholder constraints – empowers us to uniquely prioritize the longer-term health and well-being of Canadians,' says Zahid Salman, President and CEO, GreenShield. 'By leveraging real data insights along with purpose-driven innovation, GreenShield Ventures aims to enhance care, expand access, and break down systemic barriers across Canada's health landscape, furthering our mission of Better Health for All.' At the helm of GreenShield Ventures is Luke Vigeant, a visionary Canadian health entrepreneur and product design leader renowned for creating intuitive client experiences. Vigeant is the co-founder and former President of Inkblot Technologies – a mental health platform known for its personalized therapist matching tool and user-centric approach. Vigeant brought his expertise to GreenShield in 2021 when the company acquired Inkblot to become part of GreenShield Health. Vigeant's role was then expanded to oversee the development of a new integrated health and benefits ecosystem, later named GreenShield+. Since then, GreenShield Health has become Canada's fastest-growing digital healthcare providers, integrating mental health, telemedicine, pharmacy and chronic disease management services along with benefits coverage and claims reimbursement into the GreenShield+ ecosystem. 'True innovation begins with a deep understanding of patients and plan members,' says Luke Vigeant, Senior Vice President, GreenShield Ventures. 'GreenShield Ventures places Canadians at the heart of our innovation process – developing and testing solutions within our ecosystem to ensure they meet the evolving needs of those we serve. By validating and then seamlessly integrating our innovations into GreenShield+, we know we are delivering an unparalleled health and benefits experience.' Founded in 1957 as a purpose-driven non-profit, GreenShield is committed to reinvesting its excess earnings to directly support the health and well-being of underserved communities. Through GreenShield Cares, the company has committed $75 million to improve the health of over one million Canadians by the end of this year, with a focus on mental health, essential medicines, and chronic disease management. United by a commitment to advancing health equity, GreenShield Ventures will work closely with GreenShield Cares to develop products and services that meet the needs of all Canadians. To learn more about how GreenShield Ventures is leveraging purpose-driven innovation to advance Better Health for All visit GreenShield's website Purpose driven innovation | GreenShield Ventures . About GreenShield As Canada's only national non-profit health and benefits company, GreenShield believes health care is a right, not a privilege. We're dedicated to improving health outcomes, driving systemic change, and building a future where every Canadian can reach their full health and well-being potential. We are revolutionizing the health and benefits experience with coverage and care in one place. Through our unique integrated payer-provider ('payvider') model, we offer insurance, administer benefits and pay claims as a 'payer' while offering health services such as mental health, pharmacy, telemedicine and chronic disease management as a 'provider'. As a non-profit social enterprise without shareholders, we prioritize and reinvest our excess earnings to directly support underserved communities. Through GreenShield Cares, we've committed $75 million to improve the health of over one million Canadians by the end of 2025, focusing on mental health, essential medicines, and chronic disease management. Our scalable initiatives deliver meaningful change in pursuit of Better Health for All. GreenShield is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, a leading Imagine Canada Caring Company, and named on the Fortune's Change the World list. SOURCE GreenShield
Miami Herald
05-05-2025
- Science
- Miami Herald
KnowAtom Launches SocraCircle+: A First-of-Its-Kind Social AI Tool Designed to Deepen Human Connection and Student Thinking Through Live Classroom Dialogue
New virtual student participant, SocraBot, helps K-12 students engage curiosity, build peer-to-peer understanding, and think more deeply - together IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS / ACCESS Newswire / May 5, 2025 / KnowAtom, a leading provider of hands-on, inquiry-driven core science curriculum for K-8, has announced the launch of SocraCircle+, a groundbreaking classroom discussion tool that uses artificial intelligence not to generate answers - but to cultivate deeper, more human conversations in real time. At the center of SocraCircle+ is SocraBot, a virtual student participant who models curiosity, reflects on peer contributions, and helps students explore, agree, disagree, and extend their thinking in meaningful ways. "In many of today's edtech tools, AI is used to help teachers or students do more of the same - create faster, polish more, or extract content through Q&A interfaces," said Francis Vigeant, CEO of KnowAtom. "But more of the same simply produces more of the same outcomes. SocraCircle+ asks a different question: How can AI help students become more authentic, connected, and curious humans in conversation with one another? That's where learning lives." SocraCircle+ supports live, student-centered discussion across any K-12 subject - including science, ELA, social studies, SEL, and more. Teachers can launch a discussion in seconds. As students contribute, SocraBot responds naturally in real time, offering thoughtful follow-ups, modeling high-quality reasoning, and prompting students to consider ideas from new angles - just like a reflective peer would. Unlike AI tools that replicate or automate teacher work, SocraCircle+ is designed to elevate student voice and reduce reliance on teacher-led prompts or curriculum scripting. It's built on KnowAtom's own research and long-standing classroom results: clients consistently rank among the top performers in state science assessments, thanks to a pedagogy rooted in decades of cognitive science, educational research, and practical implementation. "At KnowAtom, we understand that learning is the result of interplay between culture, problems, questions, and ideas - and dialogue is the nexus where they meet," Vigeant said. "SocraCircle+ brings that dialogue to life at a deep level." Built-in multilingual support allows students to participate in most native languages, with responses translated for the group, ensuring a voice for all students. SocraBot never provides links or external content, and student identities are anonymized within the platform to create a safe, focused environment. SocraCircle+ is now available at no additional cost to KnowAtom's science curriculum customers. Educators can log in to their KnowAtom portal today to begin using the tool. For teachers who don't have access to KnowAtom's next generation science curriculum portal, free trials are available on KnowAtom's SocraCircle+ page. For more information, visit or contact press@ About KnowAtomKnowAtom is an award-winning K-8 education company committed to helping students think like scientists and engineers. Through fully integrated, 100% hands-on core science curriculum, professional development, and digital tools, KnowAtom supports schools in building classroom cultures of thinking around next generation science standards in adaptive and adoptive states. Grounded in research and proven through top-tier student outcomes, KnowAtom's approach empowers educators to shift learning from passive recall to active, authentic engagement. SOURCE: KnowAtom, LLC press release
