Smartlink raises $2.5M seed round from private investors

Smartlink

Smartlink Mobile Systems (Smartlink) has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding led by private investors. The startup plans to use the fresh capital for further product development as well as launch sales and marketing efforts.

By delivering simple and convenient bi-directional communication, Smartlink enables patients to be more engaged in the medical services they need. For clinics, the company’s mobile patient engagement solution improves efficiency, quality of care, patient adherence and revenue streams.

Smartlink enables patients to be more engaged in the medical services they need.Smartlink has recently launched Pocket HealthNet (PHN), an enterprise solution that enables mobile patient communication with any clinic via single interface. Designed to simplify the patient experience, PHN provides clinical and administrative communication with patients including patient appointment management, pre-registration, check-in, document sharing, and other routine tasks via simple text messaging. Using PHN’s innovative broadcast capability, healthcare providers can quickly transition their patient engagement and care management initiatives from manual, phone based support targeting the sickest 1-5 percent (%) to much broader patient populations.

“The patient engagement solutions on the market today, such as patient portals, have been slow to gain adoption because each EHR vendor has a different way to communicate. It’s still easier for a patient to just pick up the phone than it is to manage multiple sites and login credentials,” explained Smartlink CEO and founder Siu Tong. “We are very excited to deliver a mobile patient engagement solution that can solve this problem, scales easily to large populations, and also fits perfectly into the asynchronous communication and electronic referral requirements of the Medicare Chronic Care Management Program.”