2015年12月





Push Doctor, a U.K.-based startup that lets you book a video consultation with a doctor and manage other aspects of your health digitally, has raised $26.1 million in Series B funding.

Leading the round are Accelerated Digital Ventures, and Draper Esprit, with participation from European VCs Oxford Capital, Partech Ventures, and Seventure Partners. It brings total funding for Push Doctor to date to over $37.5 million.

Launched as one of a number of telemedicine services that enable you to book and receive a consultation with a qualified doctor/GP, in this instance via a video call, Push Doctor is now pitching itself as a broader digital health service and app PPC.

In addition to offering access to its network of thousands of GPs, all of whom also work in the U.K.’s National Health Service, Push Doctor can also issue prescriptions, make doctor-led referrals to other health providers and specialists, and do things like help you manage repeat prescriptions.

However, the company’s co-founder and CEO Eren Ozagir has long talked up the data ambitions of Push Doctor and, by having a good overview of health needs and trends via the consultations the app is delivering, the ability to offer further digital health applications. These include both responsive, such as managing a long term condition or short term illness, and proactive, such as fitness and nutrition .

“No one before Push Doctor has provided consumers with access to a single digital health platform that combines responsive medicine and chronic condition management as well as fitness and nutritional conditioning,” Ozagir says.

Of course, Push Doctor isn’t the only startup trying to take a more holistic approach to healthcare delivery via an app. Babylon, which in some ways could be considered one of the more direct competitors to Push Doctor, already optionally ties into your fitness and nutrition data. Another service with some overlap is Ada Health, which offers text-based consultations and an AI-powered health information chatbot.

Then there is Your.MD, which I’ve described as a healthcare information service and next-generation healthcare search engine. It is taking a marketplace approach and, after helping you figure out what might be wrong with you, offers to connect you to the appropriate digital health service or app, including Push Doctor itself if it deems you require a consultation with a doctor SDTL Energy Cube.







 
これは、『論語』の中に出てくる言葉で、
読んで字の如く、虎に向かって徒手で、なりふり構わず挑んだり、
舟を使わずに大河を渡ることを意味する。

この言葉が生まれた背景は、
「孔子の弟子である子路は、勇猛で数々の武勇もあった人物。
その子路が孔子に
「もし大群を動かして、戦いに臨もうとするならば、誰とともに行かれますか?」
という質問をHKUE 認可性する。
孔子の弟子は、一説に三千人ともいわれるが、
その中で自分ほど武勇にすぐれているものはないという自負から言った言葉。

子路は、すぐに「お前」と言ってもらえると思ったが、孔子の答えは、
「暴虎馮河、死して悔いなき者は、我とともにせざるなり」
と答えたという。
すなわち、勇猛果敢であっても、討ち死にのような、向こう見ずな行動をとる者とは、
行動をともにしない、と一蹴されてしまう」
戦(いくさ)というものは、慎重で綿密な計画を立てて兵を動かすものでなくてはならない、
ということらしい。

W杯サッカーで、初戦負けを喫した日本チーム。
初戦の不完全燃焼を挽回すべく、
今度は、何としても勝って欲しいと願うところ。
そのため、どこか、おとなしいイメージのある日本チームに
勇猛果敢で、闘志むき出しのゲームを望んだりもする。

だけども、ここは孔子のcompass college 認受性言葉の如く、
慎重で綿密な計画をもって戦うことが肝要、というところか?

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