• Fragmented U.S. healthcare hinders provider collaboration and patient data access. • Data silos cause care gaps, delays, and higher costs for patients. • Regulatory reform and VC funding are rewiring the healthcare value chain. • Digital health firms like Virta, Omada, and One Medical now scale with integrated care. • Building tech stacks from scratch remains costly, laborious, and non‑strategic for startups. • Rock Health invests in Zus Health to provide a unified data, interoperability, workflow backbone.
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- Rock Health announced a $34 million Series A investment in Zus Health, a startup led by Jonathan Bush that is building the first federated data platform for the U.S. healthcare ecosystem. The platform will provide shared, HIPAA‑compliant data records, FHIR‑native health‑record infrastructure, patient‑relationship management, provider workflow tools, and patient‑authorization mechanisms. By offering these core services, Zus aims to reduce the cost and time for digital‑health companies that currently must build their own data stacks from scratch. The funding round also included Andreessen Horowitz, F‑Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, Martin Ventures, and Oxeon Investments.
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