CardieX extends links with Amwell

CardieX is set to supply smoking cessation services to American Well.

At present, CDX’s InHealth Medical Services affiliate supplies coaching support to American Well in three areas:

1. Diabetes
2. Hypertension
3. Weight loss

Amwell is marketing these services to >2,000 employer groups.

Amwell will complement the services with smoking cessation as part of its recently-launched Population Health Initiative program.

CDX CEO, Craig Cooper, intends to become an energetic director of InHealth. He is likely to further strengthen links with Amwell.

Down the track, he may move to introduce Blumio BP wearables and other devices to the Amwell network.

In a rare interview, InHealth CEO and co-founder Aubrey Jenkins backgrounds StartUp Health Magazine on her firm’s five-year partnership with Amwell, one of the world’s largest telemedicine groups.

“We were one of American Well’s very first, if not their first, private practice customer.

“After we met their sales rep I looked at my co-founder - Dr Michelle Alencar - and we said: ‘this is how we’re going to scale this business and go nationwide or worldwide’.

“They gave us a platform for free and donated resources for our very first clinical trial and we’ve been with them ever since.”

Jenkins says that InHealth raised $600,000 in a seed round. “It was all from doctors who use our program.

“It’s added credibility to us to know that the people using our programs like what we’re doing so much that they would put their hard-earned money into the company.

“We’ve since closed on our series A funding round where we raised $3.25m from an Australian, publicly traded company called CardieX.”