Zus Health, a health data platform company startup launched in 2021 by former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, has closed a $40 million financing deal and announced a partnership with primary care EHR vendor Elation Health.
When the Watertown, Mass.-based Zus (pronounced “Zeus,” like the father of Athena) was launched, it announced $34 million in Series A funding.
The company says it is working to solve the problem of highly fragmented healthcare data, with clinicians spending too much time gathering patient data and entering it into the EHR. Zus says with its connected data platform, it is building a “healthcare common ground.”
Its platform is centered around the Zus Aggregated Profile (ZAP), which represents a single, comprehensive, and actionable view of a patient's healthcare information. Alongside the ZAP, the Zus platform includes a FHIR-native data store and is built on common patient record technology to facilitate real-time, cross-provider insights into every patient, which the company said saves customers a significant amount of time in their daily operations.
"We have found a critically important role for Zus as the common information ground behind the many great electronic medical records, CRMs, and patient care technologies that healthcare works with," said Zus CEO Jonathan Bush, in a statement. "What has been long overdue is a vision of digestible, comprehensive patient information at the point of care, which Zus is uniquely situated to bring about."
Zus said that Elation Health is enhancing its own data collaboration systems by integrating the Zus Aggregated Profile. Clinicians will be able to access expanded patient records from hospitals, clinics, labs, and pharmacies in real-time that help ensure the highest-quality care.
"The Zus partnership will drastically accelerate Elation's ability to build out market-leading EHR solutions to support population health and value-based care initiatives," said Kyna Fong, CEO and co-founder of Elation Health, in a statement. "Together, Elation and Zus are optimizing how external health data is synthesized within the EHR platform, which will support many of our key goals, such as reducing clinician burden, strengthening the patient-physician relationship, and driving primary care success."
Investors in the new round of funding include JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Zus said it would use this funding to continue growing its platform with additional unique data sources, workflow and referral solutions, and integration pathways to empower healthcare providers to leverage external patient data in their care and collaborate around a shared patient record.
