What You Should Know:
– C8 Health, a best practices implementation platform for healthcare, today announced a $12M Series A funding round led by Team8, with participation from 10D and Vertex Ventures Israel. The latest round brings C8’s total funding to $18M.
– The investment aims to bridge the significant gap between evidence and practice in healthcare, providing clinicians with instant, contextual access to vetted, site-specific knowledge.
New Standard for Best Practices Implementation
Care inconsistency has adverse effects on patient outcomes and accounts for an estimated $345 billion in annual waste in the U.S. alone. Despite documented best practices, finding and accessing relevant information at the right time remains a challenge due to siloed knowledge repositories and varying data formats. The adoption speed of new medical practices is notably slow, often taking 17 years for the average doctor to embrace a new standard of care. Furthermore, with a growing number of physicians working Locum Tenens (nearly 7%), over 1.5 million traveling nurses, and approximately 40,000 residents starting training annually, tools that integrate with site-specific scheduling and local best practices are crucial for efficiency in new teams.
The idea for C8 Health originated when Dr. Ido Zamberg, C8 Health’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer (a medical doctor and software engineer), sought to address the challenge of inefficient access to clinical best practices at his hospital. What began as a departmental tool for Neurology quickly expanded hospital-wide and then to other hospitals across Switzerland. In 2022, Dr. Zamberg joined forces with Galia Rosen Schwarz and Tzach Klo to officially found C8 Health in the United States.
C8 Health addresses these care inconsistency challenges with the first unified platform that gives clinicians instant, contextual access to vetted, site-specific knowledge whenever and wherever they need it. This knowledge can be displayed based on a clinician’s schedule, role, and department.
Unified Platform for Instant, Contextual Knowledge
C8 Health helps hospitals:
- Monitor adherence to care standards and protocols through executive dashboards.
- Enable quality interventions.
- Provide teams with tools to set care delivery goals and consistently follow through on them.
The platform integrates with a wide range of hospital tools and is accessible from mobile devices, desktops, or directly through the EMR, ensuring every clinician has the right guidance at the right time.
AI Assistant and Global Network
C8 includes an AI assistant, enabling clinicians to ask natural-language questions and get accurate, contextual answers from their own institutions’ vetted knowledge base. Beyond single institutions, C8 users can access best practices from a growing global network of hospitals and clinical societies that contribute to the platform. This provides clinicians with insights not only into their own site’s protocols but also peer-reviewed approaches from leading institutions worldwide.
“It is exciting to see how we enable hospitals to implement their best practices effectively and gain control over both care quality and delivery costs,” said Galia Rosen Schwarz, CEO and co-founder of C8 Health. “This round will help us grow our team to support the needs and demand in the market. We already see how this approach is becoming the new standard, driving adherence to best practices across healthcare systems.”
