Herself Health Raises $7 Million In Funding, Aims To Transform Advanced Primary Care For Women 65+
Summary
These numbers also mean that half of this aging population are women.Herself Health, a new healthcare technology company designed to deliver advanced primary care to women over 65, announced today its first clinic opening and closing of a $7 million seed round funding round led by founding partner Juxtapose. The company currently accepts Medicare and will soon accept Medicare Advantage patients (64 million people in the U.S. are on Medicare, 35 million of which are women).We begin an assessment of our clients and patients by performing a full health history and then creating a plan that helps the patient care for their presenting issues while also targeting common concerns like bone health, weight loss, and emotional well-being.Helton shares how, today, women are misdiagnosed at higher rates than men, take longer to diagnose, and often express frustration at not feeling heard. These issues are compounded by healthcares universal shortcomings, including not giving patients enough time with doctors and expecting them to navigate their own care across specialists.In 2016, the Brain Tumour Charity released a report on the treatment of brain tumor patients in the U.K., and found that almost one in three of them had visited a doctor more than five times before receiving their diagnosis, with nearly a quarter not being diagnosed for more than a year. The perception of bias was most acute for women with chronic health conditions - more than a quarter of them said a healthcare provider ignored or dismissed their symptoms.Helton has spent her career bridging technology to patient care, working across clinical diagnostics and implantable biosensors to telemedicine and connected devices sectors. From her work in research and startups to Amazon, Kristen has a strong track record of transforming insights around the customer and patient-led needs into comprehensive healthcare experiences, so we are super excited to partner with her as she works to redesign value-based care for the growing population of aging women, shares Jed Cairo, Founding Partner at Juxtapose, a lead investor at Herself Health, with me in an email.With the launch of Herself Health, we are breaking the mold of one-size-fits-most healthcare, which traditionally falls short of providing the best care for women of this generation, adds Helton.