PocketHealth, a platform that allows sufferers to entry their medical imaging, introduced it secured $33 million in an all-equity Sequence B funding spherical led by Round13 Capital.
Deloitte Ventures participated within the spherical, alongside Samsung Subsequent and current buyers Radical Ventures and Questa Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
PocketHealth gives an AI-enabled platform that enables sufferers to entry their medical imaging and different well being data, which they will then share with the supplier of their alternative. Sufferers even have entry to MyCare Navigator, the place they will get solutions to health-related questions and preventive care suggestions.Β
Suppliers, in flip, can share photographs with their sufferers and set personalised appointment reminders.Β
The corporate plans to make use of the brand new capital to increase its workforce over the approaching years and scale its choices throughout the U.S. and Canada.Β
“Medical imaging is the spark to just about each affected person journey, but handbook and legacy picture sharing methods deemphasize affected person entry to their very own knowledge, producing pointless prices and delaying affected person care,” Rishi Nayyar, cofounder and CEO of PocketHealth, stated in a press release.
THE LARGER TRENDΒ
PocketHealth secured $16 million in Sequence A funding in 2022. On the time, the corporate stated the funds would assist gasoline product innovation, increase its workforce and construct new partnerships.
Giving sufferers entry to their medical data has been proven to empower them to stick to remedy suggestions, particularly for sufferers with power circumstances.Β
One other firm serving to sufferers entry their medical data is well being expertise firm PicnicHealth. In 2022, it scored $60 million in Sequence C funding, two years after touchdown $25 million in Sequence B funding.Β
PicnicHealth has additionally introduced a number of partnerships with pharma giants, together with AstraZenca and Roche and its subsidiary Genentech. The offers allowed the pharmaceutical firms to entry PicnicHealthβs set of de-identified affected person data to achieve insights about sure illnesses and coverings.
