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Opkit Launches First Insurance Verification Platform for Telehealth

by Fred Pennic 03/08/2023 Leave a Comment

Opkit Launches First Insurance Verification Platform

What You Should Know: - Y Combinator startup Opkit emerges from stealth with an automated health insurance verification platform that is purpose-built for the new telehealth companies and virtual medical clinics that are providing care for a wide range of patients across the United States. The startup has raised more than $1M from Global Founders Capital, Mischief (Plaid founder Zach Perret's fund), Socially Financed, Y Combinator and Rex Salisbury, former partner at Andreessen
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Angle Health Raises $58M for Digital-First Health Insurance

by Fred Pennic 01/25/2023 Leave a Comment

Angle Health Raises $58M for Digital-First Health Insurance

What You Should Know: - Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members. The round was led by Portage with participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty Ventures, Mighty Capital, Wormhole Capital, Mindset Ventures, Crew Capital, Aloft VC, and Pilot founder Waseem Daher; and support from existing investors Blumberg Capital,
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How to Implement HIPAA-Compliant Video Conferencing for Healthcare Providers

by John S. Kim, Cofounder and CEO of SendBird 07/15/2020 Leave a Comment

In-app Chat: The Future of SecureDoctor/Patient Communications

Video-conferencing software like Zoom has been getting a lot of attention of late as more and more people turn to digital tools to communicate remotely, whether to stay connected with loved ones, keep work flowing, or communicate with clients.  Healthcare is certainly no exception. A global FICO study found that around 80% of people want to use their mobile phones to interact with doctors and other healthcare providers.  Digital healthcare solutions were already on the rise
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Healthcare Data Platform H1 Raises $12.9M to Fuel Growth

by Jasmine Pennic 04/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Data Platform H1 Raises $12.9M to Fuel Growth

What You Should Know:  - H1, the biggest database in the world connecting healthcare, life science professionals, and companies raises $12.9M in funding. - Its healthcare data platform provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 8 million healthcare professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70+ countries, all of which are kept up-to-date weekly. The platform enables users to understand and analyze any healthcare professional’s full profile, including expertise, interests,
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In-app Chat: The Future of Secure Doctor/Patient Communications?

by John Kim, CEO of SendBird 01/06/2020 Leave a Comment

In-app Chat: The Future of SecureDoctor/Patient Communications

It has not been easy for technology to permeate the healthcare industry, primarily due to stringent regulations that protect patient privacy— specifically HIPAA and HITECH. These regulations are both good and necessary, pushing technology providers to become more secure and private in order to gain entry into a market that touches nearly everyone’s life in some capacity. The bar is high.   As such, it has taken some time for new technologies to take hold safely within healthcare. But
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Analysis: November 2019 Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 12/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Analysis: November 2019 Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

– Healthcare Growth Partners' (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of November 2019We did a doubletake when we noticed all of the HGP healthcare indices climbed approximately 10% during the month of November.  Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is up over 25% and the HGP healthcare indices are all hovering in that range.  In the two month period since September, when talk of universal healthcare reached
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Scanwell Health Launches Smartphone-Enabled At-Home Test & Treatment for UTIs, Raises $3.5M

by Jasmine Pennic 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Nationwide launch of Scanwell Health's at-home test & treatment service for UTIs

- Scanwell Health announces the nationwide launch of smartphone-enabled test and treatment service for urinary tract infections via partnership with Lemonaid Health. - Company also announces $3.5 million in seed financing from investors including Founders Fund, Mayfield, DCM, Version One, Y Combinator, and Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures.Scanwell Health, a Los Angeles, CA-based modern diagnostics company dedicated to making healthcare more convenient and accessible, announced that its at-home
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Papa Raises $10M to Expand “Grandkids on Demand” Platform to Address Social Isolation in Seniors

by Fred Pennic 10/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Papa Raises $10M to Expand “Grandkids on Demand” Platform to Address Social Isolation in Seniors

- Papa raises $10M in Series A funding to expand “grandkids on-demand” platform to help reduce social isolation in seniors. - Adds partnerships with multiple large health insurance plans, including Humana, Aetna, Priority Health and Alignment Healthcare. - Papa will use the funding to expand its services to a broader population of older adults, via partnerships with additional insurance plans and employee benefits provider.Papa, a digital health company that provides “grandkids on demand” to
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PeerWell Lands $6.5M to Commercialize its Worker’s Comp Musculoskeletal Surgery Optimization Platform

by Fred Pennic 08/27/2019 Leave a Comment

PeerWell Announces $6.5 Million in Series A Funding to Rollout Musculoskeletal Surgery Optimization Platform

Today PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based PreHab company helping patients prepare physically and mentally for orthopedic surgery and recover faster has raised $6.5M in Series A funding led by OMERS Ventures with participation from investors Emmett Shear (Co-Founder CEO of Twitch) and Travis May (CEO of Datavant). Existing investors include XSeed Capital and angel investors Auren Hoffman (CEO SafeGraph, Co-founder of LiveRamp), Kevin Lin (COO of Twitch), Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator),
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AdhereHealth And Papa Partner to Tackle Social Determinants of Health

by Fred Pennic 06/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Stryker, RCSI Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions for Emergency & Specialist Care Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute Launches Program to Address Social Determinants of Health at The Community Level

AdhereHealth, a healthcare technology company focused on medication adherence, announced a partnership with Papa, a companionship platform company serving the elderly, blind and disabled. AdhereHealth and Papa will work together to address social determinants of health such as loneliness, food insecurity, and transportation to improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. The partnership addresses these foundational barriers to care through a combination of advanced technologies and
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