Emily Leland – CareQuest Innovation Partners

Bridging the Gap Between Innovation Promise and Practice

by Emily Leland | Oct 20, 2026 | Insights

Every year, innovators develop new technologies designed to improve patient outcomes, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and expand access to care. Yet many of these solutions never achieve meaningful adoption or reach the users they are meant to serve. This theme...

Second Opinion: The Next Frontier In Preventive Health Care? The Dentist’s Office

by Emily Leland | Sep 22, 2026 | Insights

What if your next dental visit could catch more than a cavity? As health care systems look for new ways to expand preventive care, dental practices are emerging as an unexpected front door for screenings, referrals, and earlier detection. Second Opinion’s...

Open Dental Becomes First Electronic Dental Record Technology to Connect to Kno2, Advancing Dental Interoperability Nationwide

by Emily Leland | Jul 21, 2026 | News

Kno2®, the company leading the future of healthcare communication and a federally designated Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) and CMS Aligned Network, today announced that Open Dental will become Kno2 Connected™, making it the first dental practice...

CareQuest Innovation Partners and MATTER Introduce 2026 SMILE Health Cohort and Newest ACCELERATE Pilots

by Emily Leland | Jun 23, 2026 | Press Release

This year’s selections reflect growing momentum around medical-dental integration and connected care June 23, 2026 (BOSTON & CHICAGO)— CareQuest Innovation Partners®, in collaboration with MATTER, today announced the 10 emerging startups selected to...

Provider’s Edge: Why Oral Health Is the Missing Link in Healthcare Innovation

by Emily Leland | Jun 17, 2026 | News

In a recent episode of Provider’s Edge podcast, Katie D’Amico, vice president of growth and innovation at CareQuest Innovation Partners, sat down with host Sabrina Runbeck to discuss why healthcare founders must focus on workflow alignment, pilot...