| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.12.2018 | Change Healthcare Acquires Blockchain Startup PokitDok Assets | Change Healthcare announced that it has acquired intellectual property (IP) and other key assets from PokitDok, Inc., a blockchain platform-as-a-service company for healthcare. The integration of key PokitDok APIs into the network will add ... |
| 05.09.2017 | If prices are kept hidden, consumers can’t take more responsibility for their health care costs | When my brother bought a car, I helped him research different makes and models. We were able to compare the performance, safety, and pricing of his top choices before stepping into any dealerships. He was able to test drive the cars before ... |
| 23.08.2017 | Silicon Blockchain: Intel's Distributed Ledger Strategy Is All About Hardware | In the age of advanced blockchain software, some companies are turning to something more familiar in their search for security and scalability – microchips made from melted sand.
Far from a startup-led or open-source movement, at the forefr... |
| 10.05.2017 | PokitDok teams with Intel on healthcare blockchain solution | PokitDok, a healthcare API company, announced today it has teamed with Intel to offer a healthcare blockchain solution it’s calling ‘Dokchain.’ The partnership includes using Intel’s open source Hyperledger Sawtooth as the underlying ledger... |
| 18.04.2017 | Top startup competitions: their most successful alumni
$300K Entrepreneurs Challenge | Companies like Pinterest, TubeMogul, and Thumbtack all got their start winning competitions
Startup competitions have been an exceptional way to find successful startups that go on to generate billions in revenue and thousands of jobs. In f... |
| 13.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, March 11 | GREEN-EYED UNICORNS
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Today’s guest column is by Fortune writer Robert Hackett, who also writes the “Cyber Saturday” edition of Data Sheet, our newsletter about technology. (Subscribe to it here.)
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| 10.03.2017 | PokitDok picks up $5 million | CA-based PokitDok announced that it has raised $5 million from GIS Strategic Ventures, the VC arm of Guardian, bringing its total funding to date to $48 million. The capital will be used to fund the development of DokChain, which aims to br... |
| 10.03.2017 | With strategic investment from Guardian, PokitDok sets sites on blockchain | San Mateo, California-based PokitDok, which offers a suite of API-based software tools for appointment reminders, price transparency, patient check-in, and more, has received a new investment from the investment arm of Guardian Life Insuran... |
| 10.03.2017 | Guardian Makes Strategic Investment in PokitDok to Develop Blockchain Platform | GIS Strategic Ventures, the strategic investments arm of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has made a strategic investment in software development platform PokitDok. The company plans to utilize the investment to development of... |
| 09.03.2017 | PokitDok Receives Investment from GIS Strategic Ventures | PokitDok, a San Mateo, CA and Charleston, SC-based provider of a software development platform to free, secure, and unify data that drives the business of healthcare, received a strategic investment from GIS Strategic Ventures, the strategi... |
| 06.01.2017 | How infrastructure will help cure healthcare | Enmi Kendall Contributor
Enmi Kendall is a co-founder and general partner of Healthy Ventures, a seed-stage fund focused on infrastructure software in healthcare.
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Anya Schiess is a co-founder and general partner of ... |
| 16.11.2016 | Mosaic Health, Cambia Health join forces to make digital health investments | “By leveraging the strength of Cambia and Mosaic, we are able to bring significant value to our portfolio companies. Whether they are early stage startups or well-established growth companies, Echo will uniquely support getting their innova... |
| 07.06.2016 | RetraceHealth, a concierge care provider using nurse practitioners, is raising $7M Series A round | RetraceHealth’s Form D filing from the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suggests it seeks to raise more than $7 million. Aderinkomi said it would reach its investment target with another investment that has yet to clos... |
| 16.05.2016 | PokitDok adds pharma benefit APIs to give actionable info on prescription medication | PokitDok’s APIs provide drug information, formularies, Medicare Part D pharmacy network and pricing data through an API that uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and First DataBank, the statement said.
Several compa... |
| 17.02.2016 | PokitDok raises undisclosed sum from McKesson Ventures | San Mateo, California-based PokitDok, which offers a healthcare price comparison tool and API-based tools for healthcare developers, has raised an undisclosed sum from McKesson Ventures, the venture arm of McKesson Corporation. PokitDok rai... |
| 17.02.2016 | PokitDok takes funding from McKesson Ventures | Ted Tanner, Co-founder and CTO of PokitDok, will be speaking at Vator Splash Health on February 23rd
PokitDok, a cloud-based API platform designed to make healthcare transactions more efficient and streamline the business of health, and the... |
| 17.02.2016 | Healthcare API Platform PokitDok Lands Strategic Investment from McKesson Ventures | McKesson Ventures has made an strategic investment in healthcare API platform startup PokitDok . The financial details of the strategic investment were not disclosed. PokitDok believes the relationship with McKession Ventures will help fost... |
| 06.10.2015 | PokitDok scraps charges for essential transactions with insurers | Maki likened PokitDok’s approach to using APIs to what Amazon and Uber have done — using a collection of APIs to create a seamless way to integrate disparate tasks and services.
“Once we put effort into building connections between provider... |
| 13.08.2015 | PokitDok Raises $34M in Series B Funding | PokitDok, a San Mateo, CA and Charleston, SC-based provider of web services to integrate healthcare transactions into any app, website or product, raised $34 million in series B funding.
The round was led by Lemhi Ventures.
The company inte... |
| 12.08.2015 | PokitDok raises $34M for price transparency tool, APIs | San Mateo, California-based PokitDok, which offers a healthcare price comparison tool and API-based tools for healthcare developers, has raised $34 million, according to Dow Jones' VentureWire. This brings the company's total funding to at ... |
| 12.08.2015 | Healthcare API platform and marketplace PokitDok raises $34M | The Vator Splash winner serves health services from over 40,000 providers in 44 markets in the U.S.
PokitDok, winner of Splash 2013, is a company that once described itself as a healthcare marketplace, and a way for consumers to shop direct... |
| 12.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 12, 2015 | PokitDoc closed $34M; Infogain secured $63M; Soothe raised $10.6M
If there's a service that I often book with little time in advance, it's getting a massage. It's hard to predict when you're neck or back will ache, and when you have a free ... |
| 12.08.2015 | PokItDok Lands $34M in Series B |
MENLO PARK, CA, PokItDok has closed a $34 million Series B round led by Lemhi Ventures.
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According to TC, PokI... |
| 12.08.2015 | PokItDok Healthcare API Platform Picks Up $34 Million In Series B | PokItDok, the API provider for the healthcare industry, has today announced the close of a $34 million Series B.
The company, launched back in 2011, provides software framework for things like payment processing, eligibility checks from ins... |
| 12.08.2015 | PokitDok raises $34M to support business development, marketing of healthcare API platform | Miller founded Definity Health, a company that focused on consumer-driven health benefit programs. He later sold Definity to UnitedHealth Group in 2004. In 2006, he started Carol Corp until OptumHealth acquired it.
Other companies that have... |
| 14.01.2015 | Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | The idea stemmed from the steady march toward higher-deductible health plans for employees – being asked to shoulder more of the cost meant far more interaction with the opaque payment practices, according to Palm.
“As benefits became less ... |
| 14.01.2015 | PokitDok jumps into healthcare scheduling with new API | The scheduler harnesses web and mobile apps to make matters more efficient, in turn driving costs down, the company said.
Specifically, the emerging telehealth providers — expected to reach $1.9 billion by 2018 — aren’t well-suited to use c... |
| 22.10.2014 | PokitDok adds heft to price transparency tools with national index, payment scheduler | Accordingly, PokitDok’s Compute will be available for developers to create programs that compare average same-day cash, reimbursed medicare, reimbursed insurance, or all three across a network of 4 million providers.
In addition, PokitDok i... |
| 15.08.2014 | Startup PokitDok raising $7.5M for expansion | The company is headed by CEO Lisa Maki. Its CTO is Ted Tanner. It raised $4 million last year and launched its API platform recently. So far, it has raised another $1.35 million, with another $6.135 million remaining from the issuance of de... |
| 01.08.2014 | Investment strategy at Cambia Health Solutions shows how to become a 21st century insurance company | But Cambia investments span a much broader range of categories and include many technology-enabled services. There’s Wildflower Health, which is about high-risk pregnancy and pregnancy management, particularly for Medicaid patients; Qliance... |
| 14.03.2014 | How will health tech startups fare under the ACA? | Out-of-pocket costs are rising, but increased access may ultimately benefit health tech startups
The Affordable Care Act.
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It’s been talked to death—how it will affect businesses, how it will impact the middle class, who ... |
| 10.12.2013 | AARP and Startup Health report: 5 digital healthcare investment trends in the senior market | Vital sign monitoring had the largest average median deal size. Among the companies in this space, Proteus raised $62.5 million in a Series F round, Watermark Medical raised $32.2 million. Mc10 raised $18 million in a series D and Basis rai... |
| 11.11.2013 | Get funded: NAV's Thanasis Delistathis Breaks Down His Firm's Investment Strategy | Navigating the world of venture capital is one of the most difficult and tricky aspects of scaling a successful startup. Besides getting your foot in the door with a venture capitalist, knowing exactly what they want and getting them to wri... |
| 10.10.2013 | What’s at the end of the road to cost transparency? 5 fresh ideas on the future of healthcare | Investors are pumping millions of dollars into healthcare price transparency startups. Journalists are calling shenanigans on hospital pricing systems. Governments are trying to help by publishing hospital data they never have before. But w... |
| 05.07.2013 | New health data outs doctors whose patients die more often | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Most of us peruse reviews and check out diner rat... |
| 05.07.2013 | New health data outs doctors whose patients die more often | Most of us peruse reviews and check out diner ratings before booking a fancy restaurant. But when it comes to selecting a doctor to perform life-saving surgeries, we have no equivalent to Yelp. People typically rely on their social networks... |
| 28.06.2013 | PokitDok Receives $4M in Series A Funding | PokitDok, a San Mateo, Calif.-based online health marketplace, received $4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by New Atlantic Ventures and Rogers Venture Partners, with participation from Subtraction Capital, Zac Zeitlin and FFP Holdin... |
| 27.06.2013 | PokitDok gets $4M to improve health care cost transparency | Patients are in the dark about the costs of health care, which vary wildly between hospitals and clinics.
As our editor put it, it’s like walking into a flea market where you don’t know the price of anything until after you’ve bought it.
Si... |
| 27.06.2013 | Healthcare marketplace PokitDok raises $4M Series A | Vator Splash SF 2013 winner lets consumers shop directly from providers for health services
Health marketplace PokitDok, which won Vator Splash SF this past February, has raised $4 million a Series A round funding, the company announced Fri... |
| 27.06.2013 | Funding Daily: One year anniversary | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today officially marks my one year anniversary at... |
| 27.06.2013 | PokitDok Secures $4M in Series A |
SAN MATEO, CA, Health marketplace connecting consumers and providers directly over the Web, announced it secured $4 million in venture capital funding in a Series A round led by New Atlantic Ventures and syndicated with Rogers Venture Par... |
| 20.05.2013 | 5 cool new health care apps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — Your health is not solely in your... |
| 20.05.2013 | 5 cool new health care apps | SAN FRANCISCO — Your health is not solely in your doctor’s hands. As mobile technology improves and health care providers reach out to consumers, many apps are popping up to help people manage their own health.
The problem is that too many ... |
| 17.04.2013 | PokitDok makes cash payments eaiser for doctors and patients | “In 2014, we’re going to have 40 million people covered with high deductible insurance policies, some of these are people who have used the ER as primary care,” she said. “Consumers will have to get smarter and have to shop around, and we w... |
| 15.04.2013 | Announcing the Splash LA judges, and Founders' Bundle | Judges from Amplify, Idealab, Lowercase, Lightbank, Science, Rustic, Javelin, DFJ and more
Splash LA is just about six weeks away. That means there's just one month left to apply to the Splash LA competition and get in front of some esteeme... |
| 11.04.2013 | Startup Jedi: How to get through the sh*t times | Thomas Lea’s, The 2000 Yard Stare. Image via Wikipedia
There’s an old West Point quote that goes something like: The best laid battle plans are tossed out the window when the first shot gets fired.
Startups are the same. Pretty much every n... |
| 05.10.2012 | Healthy Consumers And The Future Of The Patient-Physician Relationship | Editor’s note: Michelle Snyder is executive in residence at InterWest Partners focusing on the transformative role that mobile, social, and data can play in the healthcare industry. You can follow her on Twitter.
It’s hard not to read an ar... |
| 28.09.2012 | PokitDok Helps Patients Connect the Dots in a Fragmented Healthcare System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Before co-founding PokitDok, a forum and marketplace for health services, CEO Lisa Maki was in the midst of a major health issue. A serious athlete, Maki had rowed crew at Sta... |
| 12.07.2012 | PokitDok Raises $1.3M in Seed Funding | PokitDok, a Menlo Park, CA-based health and wellness startup, has raised $1.3m in seed funding.
Backers include Charles River Ventures, Jonathan Sposato, Jeff Entress, the Ballast Fund, Albert Prast, Jason Portnoy, and Zach Zeitlin.
Led by ... |
| 12.07.2012 | PokitDok Raises $1.3M Seed Funding |
MENLO PARK, CA, Health and wellness startup, announced today that it has raised $1.3M in seed round funding.
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| 15.11.2011 | Seattle super angels make house call to Silicon Valley’s PokitDok | Many Seattle entrepreneurs head south to Silicon Valley when raising financing, tapping into the region’s ranks of well-connected angels. But PokitDok, a Silicon Valley startup that just landed $450,000, took a more unusual course during it... |
| - | PokitDok raises $34M to support business development, marketing of healthcare API platform | PokitDok has raised fresh capital in a Series B round led by Lemhi Ventures, a new investor based in Minnesota. The funding will be used to nearly double PokitDok’s ranks from its current level of 40 to 70, particularly for business intelli... |
| - | PokitDok makes cash payments eaiser for doctors and patients | What Castlight Health is to people with employer-provided health insurance, PokitDok is to people with high deductible plans. The new “set your price” service for basic healthcare services may be what “consumer-driven healthcare” needs to b... |
| - | PokitDok scraps charges for essential transactions with insurers | PokitDok said it would end the practice of charging fees for essential transactions with payers such as insurance enrollment, eligibility checks, claims processing, authorizations and medical referrals. The condition is that they use PokitD... |
| - | What’s at the end of the road to cost transparency? 5 fresh ideas on the future of healthcare | Investors are pumping millions of dollars into healthcare price transparency startups. Journalists are calling shenanigans on hospital pricing systems. Governments are trying to help by publishing hospital data they never have before. But w... |
| - | Investment strategy at Cambia Health Solutions shows how to become a 21st century insurance company | A provider shopping tool.
A sensor system for elderly people.
A price comparison site.
A high-tech and high-touch approach to prenatal care.
This list reads like an accelerator’s portfolio, but these companies are not part of RockHealth or ... |
| - | PokitDok adds heft to price transparency tools with national index, payment scheduler | Silicon Valley startup PokitDok today unveiled a host of new tools aimed at furthering healthcare price transparency, including a national price index, along with software that lets users both schedule and pay for treatments.
Users of the c... |
| - | PokitDok jumps into healthcare scheduling with new API | Silicon Valley startup Pokitdok rolled out an Enterprise Scheduler, enabling a wide range of providers — group practices, hospitals and telehealth — to centralize scheduling and move away from clunky call centers and switchboard operations.... |
| - | Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | Just about anyone who’s seen a healthcare bill knows that the process is, at a minimum, confusing. With the seemingly endless back-and-fourth between insurance and the provider on arbitrary pricing, even the savviest patient has difficulty ... |
| - | AARP and Startup Health report: 5 digital healthcare investment trends in the senior market | By 2015, adults aged 50 to 75 will make up 40 percent of the adult population. That has been a significant trend that has influenced the type of technologies startups are developing. A report by Start Up Health and the AARP revealed that in... |
| - | Startup PokitDok raising $7.5M for expansion | California startup PokitDok is in the midst of raising another $7.5 million that will support further expansion, according to an SEC filing.
The company, started in 2011, has developed an API platform that parses claims data, which can then... |
| - | RetraceHealth, a concierge care provider using nurse practitioners, is raising $7M Series A round | This post has been updated with additional comments from RetraceHealth CEO Thompson Aderinkomi.
A healthcare startup that developed a concierge care service tapping nurse practitioners for telemedicine and house call visits has raised more ... |
| - | PokitDok adds pharma benefit APIs to give actionable info on prescription medication | PokitDok has launched a set of APIs to make it easier to transmit data on pharma benefits and medication pricing information, according to a company statement. The goal is to ensure that eligibility, coverage, and price data are available b... |
| - | Mosaic Health, Cambia Health join forces to make digital health investments | In a bid to create strengthen their respective profiles, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina — Mosaic Health Solutions— and Cambia Health Solutions — the nonprofit parent of insurance company Regence BlueCross Blu... |