Humana has invested $100 million into Heal as part of a new strategic partnership between the two companies.
The Series D investment more than doubles Heal's lifetime fundraise, bringing the house call and telehealth platform's lifetime raise to around $170 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Heal was founded in 2015 as an app that helped users coordinate doctor house calls. Although initially limited to Los...
Heal, maker of an app for booking and processing device-driven physician house calls, announced today that it has acquired New York City-based Doctors on Call, a roughly 50-year-old provider of house call services for elderly patients.
The acquisition allows Heal to expand its services — previously limited to the Atlanta, California and Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. areas — into the New York...
Tech-enabled urgent care provider Remedy this morning announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Santé Ventures, an Austin, Texas-based firm with a focus on healthcare and the life sciences.
As part of the deal, Dr. Joe Cunningham and Doug French, both managing directors at Santé Ventures, will be taking seats on Remedy’s board.
WHAT THEY DO
Remedy provides both video conferencing ...
Heal, maker of an app for booking and processing physician house calls, is making an unexpected addition to its platform: a built-in telemedicine feature that customers may use to conduct voice or video calls with a provider.
For a company that often stresses the value and benefits of an in-person visit, the decision to introduce a degree of separation between the patient and a clinician may seem...
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, EVP and chief clinical officer at Renton, Washington-based Providence St. Joseph Health, took the stage today at the HIMSS Media Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum to discuss how her organization uses digital tools to engage and empower patients.
“We stole our chief digital officer from Amazon,” Compton-Phillips said. “He’s the guy who pretty much led building the...
Los Angeles-based Heal, which offers an app-based physician house call service, has raised $14.8 million in Series B funding from Fidelity Management and Research Company. The company just announced $26.9 million in Series A funding a little less than two months ago, and this latest round brings their total funding to at least $54.8 million.
Heal, which launched last year, will use the new...
Medicast, the company that helped launch the recent mobile-enabled physician house call trend, has been acquired by Providence St. Joseph Health, a Washington state-based health system formed from the recently merged Providence Health & Services and St. Joseph Health System.
"I’m thrilled to announce that Medicast has been acquired by Providence, and that we will be joining the system’s...
San Francisco-based Circle Medical, which has developed a doctor house call app, raised $2.9 million in a round led by Collaborative Fund with participation from Tencent, Real Ventures, Kima Ventures, Paul Buchheit, a partner at Y Combinator, and YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim, according to Venture Beat.
There are a number of other app-based house call services on the market, but Circle Medical's...
PediaQ, an app-based pediatric house call service, has raised $1.2 million in a round led by Bill Miller, a healthcare industry advisor at KKR Advisors, with participation from Jack Furst, of Oak Street Investors & HM Capital, and Gary Gerlacher, founder of Acute Kids Pediatric Urgent Care. This brings the company’s total funding to $2.1 million.
PediaQ allows users to call pediatric nurse...
DispatchHealth, one of the several recent "house call" startups that uses technology to send doctors or nurses to consumers' homes, has partnered with Colorado health system Centura Health to make its care available to some Centura patients in Denver, Colorado, where both companies are based.
“We have anticipated the changing health care landscape and are working to provide more services based on...
