Rupert Novis, Director of Simplyhealth Ventures, says, “Our increasing partnership with Scan.com will enable our clients to guide MRI, CT, X-ray and Ultrasound scans on-line in minutes, and not using a referral from a GP.”

“Scan.com’s intention of constructing reserving a diagnostic scan as simple as reserving a lodge room aligns completely with our goal of bettering entry to healthcare for everybody within the UK,” provides Novis.

Making medical imaging accessible to everyon

In 2017, Dr Khalid Latief, Mark Nissim, Charlie Bullock, Oliver Knight, and Joe Daniels of the UK based and launched Scan.com, a web-based referral service that hyperlinks folks to reliable scan centres round them.

Scan.com goals to make medical imaging out there to everybody. It offers an appointment reserving engine for sufferers, a gateway for referring medical doctors, and an API for digital well being companions throughout the UK and the US.

The corporate is poised to be the worldwide interface for diagnostic imaging, offering imaging to sufferers and suppliers from a single supply. 

It claims to simplify imaging from begin to end, reducing ready instances and rising affected person care outcomes with findings despatched in as little as per week.

The corporate raised $2M in a Seed spherical in 2021 co-led by Oxford Capital and YZR, and supported by angel buyers akin to Tom Blomfield (ex-Monzo) and Evelyn Bourke (ex-BUPA).

The corporate claims that its group has grown to 30 folks all through the UK and the US, because of a second $2.2M extension led by Triple Level Ventures in 2022.

Capital utilisation

Scan.com says it’ll use the funds to scale its US operations and develop bespoke merchandise for UK insurers, accelerating healthcare referral processes to ship life-saving imaging entry and faster outcomes for sufferers.

Within the US, the corporate will increase into 5 further US states and safe enterprise contracts with payers and digital well being platforms.

This growth follows a pilot in Atlanta, Georgia, the place Scan.com has created a community of over 50 imaging areas and scaled as much as $1M in annualised income within the first 5 weeks after beginning within the US in February 2023. 

This funding may even assist Scan.com in product developments and integrations, enabling it to grow to be a distinguished healthtech infrastructure provider, significantly within the personal medical insurance coverage vertical.

Charlie Bullock says, “The capital will likely be used to proceed to enhance entry to diagnostic imaging and medical screening exams, by means of our consumer-facing market and API.”

“This spherical wouldn’t have been doable with out the unbelievable effort and tenacity proven by our total group, who’ve constructed at such a quick tempo in what’s historically a really slow-moving business.”