Startup aiming to simplify the process for booking imaging appointments raises $12M
A startup aiming to simplify the process for booking imaging appointments has raised $12 million, leaders announced Monday.
Several venture capital firms pitched in on the series A financing round, which is supporting Scan.com’s expansion in the U.S. Already established in the United Kingdom and around since 2017, the company offers services such as simplified scheduling, cost transparency and online educational resources for patients.
Earlier this year, Scan.com partnered with Simplyhealth, a self-pay health plan provider in the U.K., to make it easier for users to find imaging services.
“Our expanding partnership with Scan.com will allow our customers to book MRI, CT, X-ray and ultrasound scans online in minutes, without a referral from a GP,” Rupert Novis, director of Simplyhealth Ventures, which contributed to the fundraising round, said in a statement. “Scan.com’s aim of making booking a diagnostic scan as easy as booking a hotel room aligns perfectly with our purpose of improving access to healthcare for everyone in the U.K.”
With offices in both London and Atlanta, Scan.com launched a new pilot program in the Peach State this past February. Through it, they’ve partnering with a network of more than 50 imaging centers in Georgia, having amassed $1 million of annualized revenue in the first five weeks. Scan.com said the funds will help it to expand into five additional U.S. states, secure further contracts with payers, launch new products and strive for its mission to become the “leading imaging interface.”
“The American healthcare system is fraught with insurance roadblocks, poor provider-to-patient communication, and logistical nightmares,” the company said on its website. “This can make getting the medical care you need feel frustrating, exhausting, or impossible; medical imaging is no exception. That's not the way it should be, and Scan.com wants to change it.
U.K. radiologist and Chief Medical Officer Khalid Latief helped co-found the company six years ago to address inefficiencies in the scheduling of imaging services.
Other fundraising news
Meanwhile, in other imaging-related company fundraising news:
- Oxford, England-based Caristo Diagnostics announced Monday that it has raised $16.3 million to close its series A financing round. The company offers diagnostic technology, including algorithms allowing providers to obtain measures of coronary inflation from routine cardiac CT angiography scans.
- St. Louis-based SentiAR recently raised $8.5 million to close its series B financing round. Its product integrates existing imaging systems to create a real-time 3D view of the patient’s anatomy during interventional procedures.
- And finally, Munich, Germany-based DeepC has raised more than $13 million in series A funding. The company offers software to aid providers in integrating third-party AI technology into existing radiology workflows.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.