Orb Health raises $650K seed round for its health portal

Orb Health

Phoenix-based Orb Health has raised $650,000 seed funding from a handful of investors, including Health Wildcatters, Green Park and Golf Ventures, Marco Mena, Michael Cope and others.

The service wants to make sense of the data contained in lab results, as well as information from their wearables and EHRs.The company, which is a grad of the Dallas-based healthcare accelerator Health Wildcatters, is looking to use the funds to launch a portal that connects physicians with labs and patients. Orb wants to spark communication between physicians and patients about their health, while making it easier for lab testing companies to work with physicians.

When it comes to patient benefits, the service wants to make sense of the data contained in lab results, as well as information from their wearables and EHRs, and convert them into easy-to-grasp charts.

“It’s a huge differentiator for providers who want to have more engagement with patients on mobile health,” said Paul Oran, co-founder and CEO of Orb Health in a phone interview with MedCityNews. “The provider doesn’t just want [patients] to have access to data; they want you to improve your health.”

So far, Orb Health has strategically established data connections to 120 lab networks, 30 EMR platforms and more than 150 wearable devices and apps. The service also tunes into Validic’s platform to get health data from an array of apps and devices.