Hummingbird Healthcare secures $10Mn to expand patient access
COLORADO, UNITED STATES — Denver-based Hummingbird Healthcare Inc. has successfully raised $10 million in a Series A funding round.
The investment, led by UCHealth with additional contributions from CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, 8VC, and Gaingels, aims to expand Hummingbird’s innovative approach to patient access management and job creation in the healthcare sector.
Tech-driven solutions for healthcare access challenges
Hummingbird Healthcare, founded in 2022, specializes in leveraging technology to streamline patient access services. The company’s focus includes standardizing primary care and specialty access services, optimizing existing healthcare platforms like Epic, and enhancing contact center operations.
Jeremy Schwach, CEO of Hummingbird, highlighted the pressing need for their services: “In the U.S. we’ve invested more than $70 billion in digital health in the past five years. And today, only about 6% of appointments are made online. Technology alone can’t solve our access problems.”
Schwach emphasized their commitment to partnering with healthcare organizations to “unlock the power of new technologies, automation, and AI.”
Strategic partnership with UCHealth
UCHealth, a Colorado-based nonprofit health system, led the funding round and expanded its existing partnership with Hummingbird.
“With Hummingbird, we have a partner who understands both how to identify gaps and to make the necessary adjustments to operate more efficiently and effectively for our patients and staff,” said Steve Hess, UCHealth’s CIO.
“We continue to unlock enormous potential from our digital platforms by making people, process, and technology changes, and see no reason why our learnings can’t be implemented at other world-class health systems.”
With UCHealth’s network of 33,000 employees, 14 acute-care hospitals, and over 200 clinic locations, this partnership has the potential to transform patient care delivery on a large scale.
Hummingbird’s services aim to reduce the estimated $30 billion that health systems spend annually on answering phone calls.
By managing patient access as a technology-enabled service, the company strives to provide patients with a more responsive and personalized experience.
“We help our clients build a strong Epic and patient access foundation to drive patient self-service and automate in ways that also make providers’ lives easier.” said Schwach.
“By expanding this work to more clients, we’ll move the needle on access across healthcare.”
