A startup seeking to simplify referrals for radiology and other care has raised $101 million in Series C financing, leaders announced Wednesday.
Tennr notes that about one-third of Americans are referred for imaging, equipment or other specialty care. However, for radiologists on the receiving end, it can be “impossible” to deliver an ideal patient experience, due to the need for manual review of email, electronic medical records, and fax requests.
New York-based Tennr seeks to address this by automating processing for referral-based care. They utilize an “enterprise orchestration engine” and series of specialized language models, trained on the nuances of processing medical documentation against payer criteria.
“Forcing healthcare providers to change the way they refer their patients doesn’t work. Many have tried,” Zeya Yang, partner at IVP, a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm that led the funding round, said in a statement. “Tennr is the first company that works the way healthcare already does: no EMR rip-outs, no need to retrain providers, no changes to how documentation is shared. By combining deep customer empathy for specialist workflows with technical excellence, Tennr builds software that actually gets used because it works with the system, not against it.”
