Zocdoc, a health tech company known for its appointment-booking and doctor-search tool, announced its new Guided Search capability.
The tool provides patients with more tailored search results based on their symptoms and what they are seeking treatment for, helping users find the right in-network provider.
"We know that choosing the right provider is very important to patients, but far too often...
Edward Liu, a former head at Morgan Stanley, has joined medical-booking platform Zocdoc as its new chief financial officer.
Most recently, Liu served as Head of Americas Banking Technology at Morgan Stanley, where he advised CEOs, CFOs and boards on their strategic and financing decisions. He also previously spent time at McKinsey & Company and at Patricof & Co. Ventures.
In his new role...
This morning Zocdoc, a health tech company best known for its appointment-booking and doctor-search tool, announced a whopping $150 million raise, led by Francisco Partners.
Zocdoc was first founded in 2007, which as digital health companies go makes it a veteran in the space. This isn’t the company’s first major raise. In 2015, it scored $130 million.
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As healthcare organizations take on the extensive task of vaccinating the entire U.S. population, digital health companies are leveraging their expertise to assist along the way. Two of them, Notable Health and Zocdoc, have recently expanded their platforms to help ease the administrative burdens of mass inoculation.
Notable’s automated healthcare platform now supports COVID-19 vaccine...
About a month after ousted Zocdoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi filed a lawsuit accusing the company's executives of conspiracy, the online appointment booking service has fired back with a legal motion to dismiss Massoumi's suit and a blog post that refutes his critiques of their financial performance and strategy.
Massoumi's original complaint painted the picture of a collaborative effort to mislead the...
Cyrus Massoumi, the cofounder and former CEO and chairman of doctor search and appointment-booking platform Zocdoc, has filed a lawsuit alleging that his fellow cofounders and the company's CFO conspired to remove him from the company through "an elaborate series of lies and deceptions."
The suit, filed yesterday in New York's Supreme Court, describes a series of events leading up to a Zocdoc...
Bankrupting docs? Patient booking platform Zocdoc is putting providers in a sticky situation, CNBC reports. The platform, which lets patients book and cancel appointments, is changing its business model. Now instead of charging providers a flat annual rate per doctor, it proposes to charge a lower annual rate as well as a booking fee for each new customer.
Not only would this dramatically...
Medical appointment booking app Zocdoc has launched Insurance Checker, a new feature powered by artificial intelligence for its iOS and Android mobile apps and for its mobile website. Seeking to ease a process pain point common for both patients and providers, Insurance Checker targets deciphering, understanding, and verifying health insurance.
For healthcare provider organizations, getting...
The Allscripts EHR now can link with healthcare information and appointment booking app Zocdoc through the latter's participation as an integrator in the Allscripts Developer Program. This will enable a connection by API between Zocdoc’s online scheduling platform and Allscripts’ clinical scheduling software.
The integration will improve real-time booking for patients through Zocdoc and will...
Doctor appointment booking platform Zocdoc is launching a new, smarter search feature to its offering on both mobile and desktop. Now, the ability to find and schedule doctor visits will become more personalized and approachable with Zocdoc’s Patient Powered Search engine, which employs machine learning and natural language processing to make the experience more conversational.
The idea is to...
