Boston-based healthtech startup 1UpHealth raised $8 million in a fresh round of funding, according to SEC filing. The three-year-old company, which won the MassChallenge HealthTech Finale in June 2019, provides a platform for patients, providers and app developers to aggregate and share medical data and wearable device metrics.
This round is the startup's second infusion of capital. In February last year, it raised a seed round worth $2.38 million, co-led by Eniac Ventures, Meridian Street Capital and Social Leverage.
The startup claims to work with more than 10,000 health facilities. Locally, it partners with Boston Children's Hospital, MassMutual and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It also works with the State of Israel's Ministry of Health.
Headed by Ritwik Sahu, the former VP of engineering at Virginia startup CareJourney, 1UpHealth is building the "world's most integrated" Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API platform. FHIR (pronounced "fire") is a standard protocol for exchanging electronic health records.
Created by Health Level Seven International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing standards and solutions for global health data interoperability, FHIR's goal is to facilitate interoperation between legacy health care systems and to make it easy to provide health care information to health care providers and individuals on a range of devices. It is also set up to allow third-party application developers to provide medical applications to be easily integrated into existing systems.
