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Choice Medical Group brings care closer to home
In California’s High Desert, Choice Medical Group connects a network of 300-plus providers with urgent care, nursing support, and a senior club where the paintbrushes matter, too.
Elation Health Bet the EHR Was the Problem. Now It Wants AI to Give Primary Care Its Evenings Back.
Two siblings built a chart for their father's clinic, then spent 16 years turning that family workaround into the operating system for independent primary care. The new wager is bigger: AI should finish the paperwork without hijacking the visit.
Kihwan Kim Is Turning a Video-Call Startup Into a Clinic Company
The former semiconductor marketer began with doctor discovery, moved into remote appointments, and ended up opening doors in five states. His useful lesson is simple: when software meets reality, follow the patient journey - even if it leads back to a room.
DoctorHere Learned Telehealth's Hard Lesson: Sometimes the Winning App Is a Clinic
The Korean-American health startup began by putting doctors on a screen. Its more revealing move was opening doors in Manhattan, New Jersey and inside major employers - a hybrid-care playbook built around access, continuity and the stubborn usefulness of a room.
RhythmX AI's $50 Million Bet: The Useful Part Comes After the AI Scribe
Most clinical AI is trying to write the note. RhythmX AI wants to decide what deserves the doctor's attention next - and its merger with Get Well reveals why distribution may matter as much as the model.
Droxi Found a $25 Million Business Hiding in Doctors' Inboxes
The founders went looking for medication errors. Hundreds of physician interviews pointed them toward a bigger culprit: the endless EHR inbox. Now Droxi is turning clicks, refills and lab messages into a workflow business.
The Health Center That Put a Whole Community on the Care Team
On West Oʻahu, health care is not confined to an exam room. WCCHC built a community-owned system where emergency medicine, food access, job training and Native Hawaiian healing share the same address.
The Drugstore That Swallowed the Health-Care Map
CVS Health has assembled a pharmacy, an insurer, a benefits manager and a care network under one red heart. The result is a $402 billion experiment in whether scale can make American health care feel less fragmented.
Humana
How a 1961 nursing-home bet in Louisville became a Medicare Advantage powerhouse - and why Humana is now buying the clinic, the pharmacy and the house call instead of just the insurance card.
Teladoc Health
Teladoc made the video visit ordinary. Now it is attempting the harder trick: turning urgent care, therapy, chronic-condition coaching and hospital technology into one accountable system of care.
Beacon Health
Beacon Health is a Y Combinator (W26) startup building AI agents that operate real electronic health record systems the way a human employee would - clicking through Epic, athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks to close care gaps, capture risk adjustment codes, handle prior authorizations, and run preventative screening outreach. Aimed at primary care practices in value-based care arrangements, the product turns recorded EHR workflows into deployable agents so small practices can chase quality measures and shared-savings revenue without hiring more back-office staff. Founded in 2025 by Mark Pothen and Obinna Akahara, the company has gone live with an independent physician association covering roughly 40,000 patients.
Prana
Prana is a San Francisco startup building a 24/7 AI doctor that watches your health data between checkups. It pulls your medical records and wearable data into one clinical timeline, watches for early warning signs the company calls 'clinical drift' - rising blood pressure or glucose weeks before a crisis - and lets you chat with its AI for free or see a real physician for a flat $39 visit. Founded by Meer Patel, Vishvam Rawal, and Sanjit Menon, Prana launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Doctor Anywhere
Doctor Anywhere is a Singapore-headquartered, tech-led healthcare company founded in 2017 by Lim Wai Mun. It started as a telemedicine app that put a licensed doctor on a video call within minutes, then deliberately grew downward into the physical world - GP clinics, specialist practices, health screening and imaging suites, home visits, medication delivery and an in-app health marketplace. The company describes the result as a 'Hospital Anywhere' model: one app that carries a patient from a 2am sore throat to a knee surgeon, across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. It serves roughly 3 million users, sells to consumers, corporates and insurers, and has raised about US$176 million from investors including Asia Partners, Novo Holdings, Square Peg, EDBI, IHH Healthcare, Philips and Pavilion Capital.
Healthengine
Healthengine is Australia's largest consumer healthcare marketplace, connecting millions of patients with thousands of GPs, dentists, allied health providers, specialists and pharmacies through a single online booking platform. Founded in 2006 in Perth by frustrated doctors, it lets people find, compare and book health appointments 24/7, while giving practices tools for online bookings, SMS reminders, recalls, reviews and patient engagement. More than 74 million appointments have been booked through the platform.
Vytalize Health
Vytalize Health is a value-based care enabler and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that helps independent primary care physicians care for Medicare patients while lowering the total cost of care. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, it pairs a physician-built clinical data platform (Vytal Insights) with a wraparound clinical team and virtual clinic (Vytal Care) so small practices can succeed in Medicare's advanced value-based programs like ACO REACH and MSSP. The company serves hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries across dozens of states and was named the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. in 2024.
Faris Ghawi
Faris Ghawi is the co-founder and CEO of Vytalize Health, a Hoboken-based value-based care company that partners with primary care physicians to manage Medicare patients through data, analytics, and financial incentives. A Lehigh-trained civil engineer who moved into healthcare consulting at EY and then earned an MBA at Columbia, Ghawi launched Vytalize in 2014 with college friends. Under his leadership the company grew to serve hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries across dozens of states, raised a $100M Series C in 2023, and topped Inc. Magazine's 2024 list as America's fastest-growing private company.
Digital Diagnostics
Digital Diagnostics is a Coralville, Iowa healthcare AI company that builds autonomous - not assistive - diagnostic systems that make a clinical decision without a physician reviewing the result. Its flagship product, LumineticsCore (formerly IDx-DR), was the first medical device of any kind to receive FDA authorization to make an autonomous diagnosis: it screens for diabetic retinopathy from retinal images at the point of care in primary care offices, no eye specialist required. Founded in 2010 by retina specialist and computer engineer Dr. Michael Abramoff, the company has raised more than $130 million to expand autonomous AI into new disease areas.
Doctronic
Doctronic is a New York-based health technology company building an AI-native primary care platform. Its free, anonymous AI doctor gives instant symptom assessments and treatment guidance grounded in peer-reviewed research, and connects patients to licensed physicians for $39 video visits or an insurance copay. Founded in 2023 by technologist Matt Pavelle and vascular surgeon Dr. Adam Oskowitz, the company has processed more than 15 million medical conversations, became the first AI to legally renew prescriptions in the U.S. under Utah's regulatory sandbox, and has raised $65 million across three rounds in under a year.
Klarity Health
Klarity Health is a U.S. telehealth marketplace that connects patients with thousands of independent, licensed and board-certified providers for affordable online care across mental health, ADHD, weight loss, primary care and more than 200 conditions. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 mental health surge, the company pairs a consumer-facing appointment platform with software, marketing and back-office tools that let solo practitioners run profitable virtual practices - an operating model it extended in 2025 with the launch of Kiwi Health, a growth and engagement SaaS built for private providers.
Bluebird Kids Health
Bluebird Kids Health is a Boston-founded pediatric primary care company delivering value-based, tech-enabled medicine to children in underserved Florida communities. It combines physical and behavioral health under one roof, offers 24/7 access and telehealth, and gets paid to keep kids well rather than per visit. Led by former Landmark Health CEO Chris Johnson, it raised $31.5M in 2025 to expand its network of NCQA-recognized clinics serving roughly 20,000 mostly Medicaid-enrolled patients.
MDaaS Global
MDaaS Global is a Nigerian health-tech company building tech-enabled diagnostic and primary-care clinics for clinically underserved communities across Africa. Trading as BeaconHealth Diagnostics, it runs a network of 17+ centers offering imaging, cardiac, and laboratory services, all connected by its proprietary operating system, BeaconOS. Founded in 2017 by a team out of MIT, the company has served more than 275,000 patients and raised $6.8M to expand toward becoming the continent's largest integrated care network.
River Health
River Health is a Minneapolis digital health company building the first health plan designed specifically for hourly and mixed workforces - the roughly 75 million American workers who earn too much for Medicaid but can't afford traditional insurance. For a flat monthly fee with no copays, deductibles, or hidden charges, members get virtual and in-person primary care, behavioral health, labs, and prescriptions delivered to their door. River sells directly to employers like Taco Bell and Raising Cane's who want to offer real benefits to workers the insurance industry has long ignored.
The Lanby
The Lanby is a membership-based, hospitality-led primary care practice in New York City that reimagines concierge medicine for a modern, prevention-minded patient. Founded in 2021 by breast cancer survivor Chloe Harrouche, it pairs every member with a dedicated care team - a lead physician, wellness advisor, medical assistant, physician associate, and member advocate - to connect the dots across medicine, wellness, and care coordination. For a flat annual fee and no insurance friction, members get unlimited visits, advanced diagnostics with 85+ biomarkers, personalized care plans, and expedited specialist referrals.
Canvas Medical
Canvas Medical builds programmable EMR infrastructure for the companies reinventing how care gets delivered. Its ONC-certified electronic medical record pairs a FHIR API and a Workflow SDK so clinicians and developers can extend the chart like software, then layers AI agents - led by the open-source Hyperscribe ambient copilot - that listen, document, place orders, and prep claims in real time. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Canvas powers primary care, behavioral health, weight loss, longevity, and other modern clinics that want their EMR to bend to their workflows instead of the other way around.
identifeye HEALTH
identifeye HEALTH (formerly Tesseract Health) builds an AI-powered retinal imaging platform that turns a quick eye scan in a primary-care clinic into a window onto whole-body health, helping clinicians screen for diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration without dilation or specialty equipment.
Chloe Harrouche
Chloe Harrouche is the co-founder and CEO of The Lanby, a New York membership practice that reimagines primary care as a hospitality-led, relationship-driven experience. A University of Pennsylvania bioengineering graduate and former Deloitte healthcare strategy consultant, she built The Lanby around a simple bet: that primary care should feel less like a waiting room and more like a team that actually knows you. Members get a dedicated care trio - a lead physician, a wellness advisor, and a care manager - working from one coordinated plan.
Accompany Health
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
Cityblock Health
Cityblock Health is a New York-based, technology-driven healthcare company that delivers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and social services to Medicaid and dually eligible (Medicare-Medicaid) members in underserved communities. Spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs in 2017, Cityblock pairs neighborhood-based care teams with a custom care-management platform to treat the whole person - medical needs alongside housing, food, and other social drivers of health - under value-based, risk-sharing contracts with health plans. It serves more than 100,000 members across over ten states.
DermaSensor, Inc.
DermaSensor is a Miami-based medical device company that makes the first FDA-cleared, AI-powered handheld device for detecting all three common skin cancers - melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma - at the point of care. Using elastic scattering spectroscopy and a machine learning algorithm trained on thousands of biopsy-confirmed lesions, the device gives primary care physicians a real-time, non-invasive read on whether a suspicious skin lesion warrants further evaluation, helping close the gap created by a shortage of dermatologists.
Cody Simmons
Cody Simmons is the co-founder and CEO of DermaSensor, a Miami-based medical device company behind the first FDA-cleared, AI-powered handheld tool that helps primary care physicians evaluate skin lesions for cancer in seconds using elastic scattering spectroscopy. A bioengineer with a Brown degree, a Stanford master's and four years at Genentech, he took over the company in 2016 and spent nearly a decade shrinking a microwave-sized prototype into a point-and-click device, navigating FDA breakthrough designation, a De Novo clearance in early 2024, and a $16M Series B in 2025.