Category: E-health
Drchrono, a Silicon Valley based startup offering an electronic health record (EHR) platform for the iPad, announced last week it has received an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, along with venture capital firm General Catalyst.
Moscow based startup incubator Fast Lane Ventures has just launched VitaPortal.ru, a website offering health news for the general public, inspired by the success of Western sites such as WebMD.com.
ZocDoc, a New York based startup that allows patients to locate and book doctor appointments online, announced yesterday it secured a $50 million investment from prominent Russian fund DST Global in its third round of financing.
Founded in 2007, the site claims to offer 5 million appointments across nine major metropolitan areas and dozens of medical specialties. “In cities like Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where patients were accustomed to waiting 24 and 27 days on average for an appointment, ZocDoc has delivered same-day access to healthcare,” according to the site.
As announced earlier this month by Communications and Mass Media minister Ilya Massukh, 29 billion rubles (approximately $1 billion) has been slated for IT modernization of the Russian public health service in 2011 and 2012.
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