Patient Access

Healthcare professionals reviewing data on a computer
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:34 am February 25, 2025
PAVmed, a medical technology company focused on devices, diagnostics and digital health, and its subsidiary, cancer care platform Veris Health, completed a $2.37 million private placement financing. Accredited investors acquired PAVmed securities priced at-the-market and shares of Veris common stock indicating a pre-money Veris valuation of almost $35 million.  The financing augments a recently...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:16 pm February 19, 2025
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers has acquired at-home lab testing facility Sigmund NJ LLC, also known as Trybe Labs. Hims & Hers said the acquisition of the New Jersey-based testing facility will allow customers to take better control of their health and permit providers to access a range of data and biomarkers that may help identify risk of disease before it develops....
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By  Jessica Hagen 04:59 pm February 18, 2025
Male fertility and sexual healthcare company Posterity Health has secured $13 million in Series A funding. Georgetown Equity Partners led the round with participation from existing investors Distributed Ventures, WVV and FCA Venture Partners and new investors SteelSky Ventures and Scrub Capital.  WHAT IT DOES Posterity Health, launched in 2021, is a digital male fertility clinic providing access...
DoseSpot Connect
By  Jessica Hagen 03:00 pm February 17, 2025
DoseSpot, an electronic prescribing platform that enables providers to send prescriptions directly to a patient's pharmacy from a clinic, is launching DoseSpot Connect – a product suite designed to give patients instant access to pharmacies offering their prescribed medication at the lowest cost. "Connect is giving patients transparency and choice with their medications that they've never had...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:25 pm February 17, 2025
Abridge, a generative AI platform for clinical conversations, announced it raised a $250 million Series D investment. The round was co-led by Elad Gil and IVP, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, California Health Care Foundation, CapitalG, CVS Health Ventures, K. Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and...
A healthcare provider speaking to an individual in a clinical setting
By  Jessica Hagen 04:48 pm February 14, 2025
Boston-based knownwell, a hybrid weight-inclusive primary and metabolic care provider, announced it expanded into six clinics across the greater Chicago area and will provide patients across the Midwest with access to virtual care.  The company touts itself as an empathetic, weight-inclusive in-person and virtual provider that offers comprehensive primary care and metabolic health services,...
Person interacting with a healthcare professional via a telehealth visit
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:26 pm February 14, 2025
Kyruus Health, a care access platform, is partnering with Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!), a health experience company, to integrate Kyruus Health's care access platform with aha"s "low-code/no-code" platform directly within a health system's digital experience platform.  The two companies aim to deliver data-driven patient access that includes a data foundation for seamless patient access. ...
Person on the boardwalk exercising
By  Nathan Eddy 01:48 pm February 12, 2025
Epicore Biosystems announced it secured $26 million in Series B funding to accelerate the adoption of its sweat-sensing wearable technology and cloud analytics platform. Led by the Steele Foundation for Hope, the investment will enable Epicore to scale its hydration management solutions globally while expanding into new biomarker applications, including kidney health, women’s health, malnutrition...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:38 pm February 12, 2025
Editors note: This article has been updated with quotes from Walgreens and Everly Health Solutions to MobiHealthNews. A federal judge in Delaware ruled that Walgreens must pay $987 million as part of an arbitration award won by telemedicine provider PWNHealth, which also does business as Everly Health Solutions.  U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews dismissed Walgreens' argument that the...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:53 pm February 10, 2025
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers is receiving backlash to its 60-second commercial dubbed "Sick of the System" that ran during the Super Bowl on Fox. The ad states that "obesity is America's deadliest epidemic" and claims that "something is broken, and it's not our bodies; it's the system." It then says the $160 billion weight loss industry "feeds on our failure."  It says...