Digital primary care startup K Health picked up $59 million from its investors along with one of the largest academic medical centers in California, Cedars-Sinai, to build out its AI-powered medical services.
Along with investing in K Health, Cedars-Sinai also inked a partnership with the digital health company to use its technology for virtual urgent and primary care services, Fierce Healthcare reports.
Existing investors Valor Equity Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners and Pico Venture Partners also backed the latest funding round. K Health has raised $330 million to date.
K Health aims to reinvent primary care by providing patients remote access to healthcare services through their smartphones. Launched in 2016 and rolled out into the U.S. market in 2018, K Health developed a chat function that uses artificial intelligence to suggest potential diagnoses for consumers who enter symptoms and also takes into account the user’s medical history, age and gender. Read more.
