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Circle Medical and the disappearing waiting room
Circle Medical began by sending doctors to the doorstep. Its bigger bet put primary care on a screen - and kept insurance in the picture.
Aduro wants the whole story.
A baseball volunteer, a glucose sensor, a therapist. Aduro’s bet is that employee health improves when these belong in the same conversation.
The surgery worked. The walker never arrived.
Parachute Health began with a failed equipment order. Its bet: the journey home deserves the same attention as the hospital stay.
Fuze Health wants to fix the handoff
A test can reveal a problem. A prescription can name the treatment. Fuze Health is assembling the machinery that helps patients get from one to the other.
Dario wants the hours between appointments.
A glucose meter got Dario into people’s pockets. Its bigger wager is that connected devices, coaching and clinical care can make everyday health easier to manage - and worth paying for.
Vitality Group makes healthy habits pay
A walk, a screening, a smaller bill. Vitality connects everyday health decisions to immediate rewards - and is building a business around what happens next.
The appointment is only half the visit.
PrimaHealth sells the machinery around virtual care, from patient intake to follow-up. Its expanding pitch puts a wellness check on the phone already in your pocket.
HTD Health makes the hard parts work
A surgical care app can look simple. Making it work means untangling clinical workflows, patient habits, and stubborn data systems. That is where HTD Health earns its keep.
Tellihealth puts the follow-up first
A blood pressure reading can travel across the country in seconds. Tellihealth is built around the harder question: who does something about it?
Tandem Diabetes Care makes room for life
An insulin pump is a tiny machine with a very big job. Tandem’s bet is that better diabetes care begins with making that machine easier to live with.
AdvaMed: The invention after the invention
A medical device can work perfectly and still struggle to reach a patient. AdvaMed organizes the companies trying to get through the other half of innovation: rules, reimbursement, and the politics of access.
ResMed: The business of keeping you asleep
A machine can hold an airway open. Getting someone to use it every night is a different problem. ResMed built a business around both.
OpenLoop built the clinic behind the brand.
A telehealth company can look like a website. OpenLoop sells the clinicians, paperwork and operations that make the website a medical business.
Dash Technologies and the last mile of medicine
A medical device can do its job and still leave a hospital waiting. Dash Technologies builds the software that gets the result where it needs to go.
Fruit Street puts prevention on the calendar
A dietitian, a Zoom room, and a year of showing up. Fruit Street turns an established diabetes-prevention program into a service people can join from home.
InfuCare Rx and the art of bringing care home
A prescription is only the beginning. InfuCare Rx brings pharmacy, nursing, insurance support, and digital coordination together so complex treatment can fit into ordinary life.
Connect America makes the help button a front door to care
A familiar pendant. A different conversation. Connect America is putting nurse triage and health analytics behind the help button, changing what happens between a worry at home and a trip to the hospital.
A local promise. A bigger pool.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota began by pooling hospital bills. Its next experiment pools the machinery of insurance - while keeping a North Dakota name on the card.
apree health wants to close the gap between finding care and getting it.
Castlight supplies the map. Vera supplies the medicine. Together, apree health is testing whether better directions and a real primary care relationship can make employer healthcare work.
Amwell wants to make the handoff disappear
A video visit is easy to picture. The work before and after it is where Amwell has placed its bet - and spent years paying for it.
Folio3 makes the pieces work together
A seed field, a shopping cart, an AI assistant. Folio3’s business is making software fit the awkward details of real work.
eMed bets on the follow-through
First, it helped people take a COVID test with someone watching. Now eMed is betting that the same idea - care that stays with you - can make weight-loss medicine work for patients and employers.
The hospital ends. The care shouldn’t.
Health Recovery Solutions built a business around the gap between going home and getting better. Its real product is the system that keeps a reading from becoming a missed warning.
Company Ventures made free rent an investment strategy
Before Company Ventures wrote checks, it put founders in the same room. Its bet is that the person at the next desk can help a young company as much as the investor across the table.
NEMIC helps medical ideas survive the expensive middle
A good medical idea can arrive years before a fundable business. In Providence, NEMIC works on the awkward interval between the two.
General Medicine Wants Patients to Shop Their Way to Power
A $120 million round led by a16z backs a healthcare store built around upfront prices and patient choice. The test is whether a better checkout can also deliver better access to care.
General wants you to see the price before you see the doctor
The PillPack founders are back with a healthcare store. Their wager: getting care should begin with a clear choice, rather than another round of phone calls.
Optimize Health discovered that a reading needs a reply
A connected cuff can send a number. Optimize Health built a business around everything that must happen next - and its evolution into Vivo Care makes the human work harder to miss.
Workit Health wants recovery to fit your life
Two founders in recovery put addiction care on a phone. Workit Health’s harder task is making every step after the video visit work, too.
Elfie rewards you for telling the truth about your health
A missed pill can earn the same reward as a taken one. Inside Elfie’s bet that honest health tracking, small prizes and partners with deep pockets can make daily care easier to keep up.