What you should know:

– Photon Well being, a digital well being startup targeted on reimagining the prescription expertise, raises $9 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by Notation and Flare Capital. The spherical additionally noticed participation from current traders and a gaggle of notable angel traders.

– Photon has developed a platform that simplifies the prescribing course of for each sufferers and healthcare suppliers.

Affected person-friendly pharmacy expertise

By digitizing prescriptions and giving sufferers extra management over their treatment administration, Photon goals to handle the ache factors related to conventional pharmacy experiences. The corporate has constructed a strong community of prescribers, together with Sesame, Weight Watchers, and Trendy Pediatrics, who use Photon to ship greater than 70,000 prescriptions to sufferers every month. The platform permits sufferers to simply choose a pharmacy, observe their treatment standing, and resolve points with out having to name in.

Photon’s mission is to revive affected person management to the prescribing course of. By offering transparency and selection, the corporate goals to enhance the general healthcare expertise and scale back prices.

Key options of the Photon platform embrace:

• Digital supply of prescriptions through SMS
• Affected person-friendly on-line portal for managing prescriptions
• Integration with an intensive community of pharmacies
• Actual-time data on the supply and worth of medicines
• Seamless pharmacy handovers