Patient communications firm Artera has expanded its support for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), including Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center in Brooklyn and Moses Lake Community Health Center in Washington.
The expanded support means these FQHCs can now tap into Artera's patient communications platform.
That platform, tailored for FQHCs, supports more than 109 languages, offers...
Patient communication platform Artera, formerly Well Health, announced it has partnered with GPT-enabled conversational AI provider Hyro to launch Artera Care Assist, an AI-powered virtual assistant that can be embedded into health providers' websites to answer common patient questions.
Artera offers a two-way communication hub for patients and healthcare organizations to connect. The platform...
Carenet Health announced last week it had acquired fellow patient engagement company Stericycle Communication Solutions for approximately $45 million in cash.
Carenet said the deal will bring services like online scheduling, automated messaging tools, and additional inbound and outbound call center services to its business. Carenet also offers clinical support teams, patient navigation services...
Chat support and patient navigation startup Nurse-1-1 wrapped up a $2.3 million seed round led by Argon Ventures, with participation from York IE and Hyperplane.
The company said it plans to use the capital to hire more staffers, speed its go-to-market strategy and increase the number of partnerships with digital health, in-home diagnostic testing and pharmaceutical companies.
"As more and more...
Patient communication and scheduling company Luma Health has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round led by FTV Capital.
Luma said the new funding round brings its total raise to $160 million. The company had previously raised a $16 million Series B in 2019 and $6.3 million in Series A financing in 2018.
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Luma’s platform handles text-based scheduling, referrals, appointment...
Health technology company, Buddy Healthcare has concluded a funding round of €2 million to develop its automated care coordination platform BuddyCare.
This latest funding round is led by UTU Invest Oy and Swedish investment company Nidoco AB, a subsidiary of Virala Oy Ab owned by Alexander and Albert Ehrnrooth. Former shareholders such as Spartamed Oy, led by physician investor Ali Omar, also...
Vocera Communications, the maker of hands-free communication devices for hospitals, announced yesterday that it has purchased patient-messaging technology company EASE Applications.
While the two companies did not share the terms of the deal, the announcement did note that "approximately eleven" EASE employees would be issued restricted stock units equal to roughly 60,000 shares of Vocera common...
Weave, a Utah-based software startup tackling patient communications for various medical specialties as well as dentistry and optometry, has brought in a $70 million Series D funding round, bringing the company to a total valuation of $970 million. New backer Tiger Global Management led the raise, with prior investors Catalyst, Bessemer, Crosslink, Pelion and LeadEdge also contributing.
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Luma Health, maker of a platform that looks to reduce care inefficiencies through streamlined patient-provider communication, has announced a $16 million Series B raise, bringing the company’s equity funding total to $25.7 million.
The round was headed by PeakSpan Capital, with additional strategic investments from Cisco Investments and the Texas Medical Center. US Venture Partners, which led the...
San Mateo, California-based HealthCrowd, maker of an enterprise platform for digital patient communications and analytics, announced today that it has closed a $7.2 million funding round let by TVC Capital. Startup Capital Ventures and Healthy Ventures returned to further fund the company, along with other unnamed backers.
“We are proud to have built a strong and sustainable business,” Neng Bing...
