Banner Health Deploys App-Based Loneliness Interventions
When Banner Health Network (BHN) was vying for a spot in Arizona’s revamped $14 billion managed Medicaid program, the integrated health care system knew it needed something innovative to meet the state’s expectations for merging physical and behavioral health services…
COVID Could Revolutionize How MAOs Address Isolated Seniors
Since COVID-19 reached pandemic status in mid-March, Medicare Advantage and other insurers have had to swap out many of their face-to-face interactions with members for telephonic and digital options. But for seniors who may be accustomed to visiting community centers…
Making news: Homework Remodels, GlobalMed, Republic Services, Pyx Health
Pyx Health, a healthcare IT startup created as a solution to the U.S. loneliness and social isolation epidemic, today announced it has completed a $1.8 million Series A4 round of financing led by Arizona Founders Fund, and entrepreneur Todd Davis, co-founder and former CEO of fraud protection giant, LifeLock…
With $1.8M fundraise, Pyx wants to be “prescriptive solution to loneliness”
The app stars a friendly chatbot named Pyxir who engages with users through jokes and questions. Its ambitious founder hopes the app can become the prescription for clinical loneliness…
LifeLock co-founder infuses capital into Arizona health care IT startup
When Todd Davis, co-founder and former CEO of LifeLock, kept hearing from colleagues about a new health care IT company, he reached out to its founder, Cindy Jordan. “Nobody seems to get in with Todd Davis, but some of the last co-investors in my first company kept talking to Todd about me,” said Jordan, founder of Tucson-based Pyx Health…
Pyx Health Secures $1.8 Million Series A4 Financing Round
Proven loneliness and social isolation technology to increase national footprint in order to bring support and well-being to the most vulnerable, further reversing the U.S. loneliness epidemic Tucson, AZ (February 18, 2020) – Pyx Health, a healthcare IT startup created as a solution to the U.S. loneliness and social isolation epidemic, today announced it has […]