Sansoro Health is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based startup tackling interoperability and EHR integration. Through Emissary, its application programming interface software platform, the company seeks to improve connections and make it easier for systems to talk to each other.
In an interview at this year’s American Telemedicine Association conference, Sansoro CMO Dave Levin said what his company’s doing isn’t completely novel.
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“It’s not rocket science. This is what powers the rest of the digital economy,” he said. “APIs are not new. They’re just new to healthcare.”
Levin described the concept of interoperability with an example: A smartphone is the base, and within it, there are numerous apps that work together. For instance, the messaging app easily works with the camera app.
“Our goal is to make the data liquid,” he said. “When we talk about interoperability, we’re talking about more than moving a chart from one place to another.” Instead, it’s about seamless integration.
How can telemedicine play a role in Sansoro’s work?
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Telehealth is actually a solid use case for the startup, Levin said. Through Sansoro’s solution, a telehealth platform can access EHR data in real time. If a patient visits the emergency room one night and has a video visit the next morning, all the up-to-date information would be in the EHR.
It’s the type of situation where one plus one equals three, Levin said. The EHR and the telehealth platform are each good platforms, but the key is to “bring them together to get a kind of synergy,” he added.
In 2016, Sansoro Health wrapped up a $1.2 million seed round led by Healthy Ventures. TreeHouse Health and angel investors also participated.
Last spring, the Minneapolis startup raised a $5.2 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. In an interview at the time, Sansoro CEO Jeremy Pierotti said the money would be used for product development and to bolster the company’s sales and marketing team.
“We experienced phenomenal growth in 2017,” Levin said, noting that in addition to the funding, Sansoro signed a number of large enterprise clients.
Its focus going forward is on sustaining its growth and examining how it wants to improve and expand its product. The company plans to build a set of partners to work with in the healthcare space.
Levin also hinted at some big news to come — the startup is currently pursuing a Series B.
“To us, this is about making the data liquid,” he concluded. “If we can help solve that problem, that enables a lot of great companies to do cool stuff.”
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