Formerly known as Responsive Health, the Mount Sinai spinoff will use the financing to help launch the new capability, which allows care teams to prescribe digital therapeutics and patient-centric care plans to entire groups of people.
Seattle-based Xealth, a new startup out of Providence Health & Services, has nabbed $8.5 million in a round led by DFJ. The company's platform lets physicians prescribe digital health content, apps and services.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Where should a digital health application pharmacy live: in a hospital, with payers, or retailers? Or should an FDA-like system be developed to validate and certify apps for the public to use?
The in-house Sinai AppLab and Mount Sinai Innovation Partners also are launching a startup company, Responsive Health, to commercialize and license the technology to other healthcare providers.