Junction, an API to link health clothes with laboratories, amasse $ 18 million
Medical devices, portable devices – We all know them. But are they linked in any way to the health system and the databases that are supposed to keep us healthy? The answer in most cases is no, this is not the case. Vital, which is renowned for “Junction”, provides a single API to integrate portable services and laboratory services, facilitating laboratory tests and creating better health care results. He has now collected $ 18 million in a series of series financing led by CreateA European VC.
Some other companies try to link data and devices, such as Health gorillawhich has collected $ 77.7 million to date, and Change healthwhich raised $ 48 million.
Although born of London, the Junction of HQ in New York, thinks that the future of health care is at home and not at the hospital, because a large part of the data on our body is in biometrics and physiological data, most of which are and can be collected on portable devices and other medical devices at home. And yet, these are rarely connected to real health systems.
Maitham DIB, founder of Junction and CEO (and former Babylon health engineer), told Techcrunch for a call: “We started with devices, creating integrations for various medical aircraft. You have a widget that you integrate into your application or your web application, which allows any patient to share this basic data with you. And we normalize all the data. Then we developed in laboratory tests. So now how we facilitate laboratory order in the United States. »»
Companies can use the API to connect to more than 500 portable and medical devices.
“We have more than 2 million devices connected to our platform today. And we are also on the right track for about a million laboratory tests this year. It is therefore a pie in the sky. Many people really use it, ”said Dib.
In addition, the junction platform allows companies to order laboratory tests in the 50 US states and to receive results of more than 10 laboratories, via person and home tests.
The junction can be on something. A few 60% of American adults Having chronic disease, which often means many home surveillance systems, whose care teams must spend hours for data collection, manually.
“Data is the bottleneck to trigger the potential of new technologies such as AI in health care,” said Sabina Wizander, associated with Creandum in a press release. “A large part of the health care infrastructure is built on inherited systems and communicates using obsolete methods such as fax and pen and paper. Junction solves this problem by providing companies with health care infrastructure for laboratory tests and the integration of devices data. »»
Junction has now obtained more than 140 health care organizations as customers, in particular found, the health of parsley and duties
The Y, the new point and the AMINO collective and the AMINO collective. JUNCTOIN raised a seed lap with point Nine Capital and YC three years ago.
