care navigation

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By  Jessica Hagen 06:31 pm May 17, 2024
Transcarent, a digital platform focused on the self-insured employer market, announced the launch of WayFinding, an AI-enabled consumer-facing platform that offers clinical guidance, benefits navigation and care delivery.  The platform guides patients through receiving care by answering questions about benefits and costs, recommending an appropriate course of clinical action, and then connecting...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:28 am May 15, 2023
Amino Health, a healthcare navigation platform, announced it received $80 million in equity and debt financing led by Transformation Capital, alongside Oxford Finance.  Transformation Capital joins existing investors WTI, Red Swan Ventures, North Woodmere Capital and Commerce Ventures. Mike Dixon, managing partner at Transformation Capital, will join Amino's board of directors.  WHAT IT DOES...
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By  Ricardo Johnson 09:41 am October 29, 2021
Calling the U.S. healthcare system complex would be like calling the universe big: an understatement that poorly conveys its true scale. It's populated with primary care physicians, specialists, pharmacists, insurance companies, labs, therapists, caregivers and others – all using different tools, methods of communication and care delivery solutions. Our healthcare system attempts to deliver...
By  Laura Lovett 02:34 pm October 28, 2019
This morning Sensely, an artificial intelligence chatbot that helps users navigate insurance benefits, announced a $15 million raise. The latest funding round was led by Aflac Corporate Ventures with participation from NMC, Nippon Life Insurance Company, Susquehanna International Group, Sojitz Corporation, Zuellig Pharma and Silicon Valley Bank.  WHAT THEY DO  Sensely uses avatars to help users...
By  Dave Muoio 02:43 pm July 2, 2019
New York-based telehealth, insurance navigation and primary care platform Eden Health has a new physical location for its hybrid services — the office. Thanks to a partnership announced earlier this year with Convene, a firm that rents out venues for work spaces, the digital primary care startup has opened an in-office clinic where Convene and Eden members can see live clinicians complementing...
By  Dave Muoio 04:01 pm April 26, 2019
Healthcare has long had an access issue. While some patients might have the knowledge, experience and opportunity to pursue optimal care when they’re ill, countless others are unaware of the whens, whys and hows of seeking and receiving relief for their condition.  “Access is really key. That can be access to an appointment to a provider [and] it’s also access to quality information,” Dr. Erin...
By  Dave Muoio 11:16 am February 28, 2019
Rightway Healthcare, a provider of patient-facing care navigation tools for employee populations, has raised $8 million in Series A financing. Support came from unnamed backers new and old, with individual investor Jonathan Locker joining the company’s board. What they do Founded in 2017, Rightway Health develops a smartphone and web service that helps employees understand and utilize the health...
By  Laura Lovett 08:45 am February 27, 2019
This morning primary care and insurance navigation platform Eden announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Greycroft, with participation from PJC, 645 Ventures, Max Ventures, Convene, Aspect Ventures and Brand Foundry.  What they do  The company focuses on providing primary care and insurance navigation directly to employers.  “When we were launching the company the intention was to...
By  Jonah Comstock 04:42 pm November 9, 2017
Rightway Healthcare, which provides patient-facing care navigation tools to employee populations, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was made up by individual investors. The company works with both self-insured and fully-insured employers to help employees understand and utilize the health benefits available to them, through what CEO and Cofounder Jordan Feldman describes as an “...