{"id":63126,"date":"2026-05-19T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/kin-health-raises-9m-to-give-patients-a-record-of-their-own-care\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:03:18","slug":"kin-health-raises-9m-to-give-patients-a-record-of-their-own-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/kin-health-raises-9m-to-give-patients-a-record-of-their-own-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Kin Health Raises $9M To Give Patients a Record of Their Own Care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFounded by practicing physicians, Kin translates medical appointments into plain language, allowing patients to build a personal health record from the only source that actually works<\/i><\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kin Health<\/a>, a free app that allows patients to remember and act upon doctors\u2019 advice, today announced a $9 million seed round led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, Eniac Ventures, The Family Fund, Pear VC, Watershed Ventures, Foundry Square Capital, and individual investors including GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek, Nabeel Quryshi, Jay Desai, Alex Cohen, Saharsh Patel and more than 30 physicians. The company is building the first consumer health platform designed around the physician-patient conversation, starting with a free app that records medical visits and turns them into easy-to-read summaries patients can easily act upon and share.<\/p>\n

\nDespite decades of investment in healthcare technology, the general patient experience has not changed. Patients are forced to absorb critical information in their hardest moments. The result: they accurately recall only 49% of decisions<\/a> and recommendations from these visits (38% for patients without a high school education). Roughly half forget their treatment plans entirely.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nFor years, innovation has been focused on the provider\u2019s side \u2013 better tools for documentation, billing, clinical decision-making – and ambient scribe technology has become commonplace (currently at 75%-90% adoption within major health systems<\/a>). But no one has built the equivalent for the person sitting across the table. Kin closes that gap with an always-free app that captures the physician-patient conversation and turns it into a clear summary of what happened and what to do next. As patients use Kin across appointments, the app builds a longitudinal health record grounded in what their doctors actually said, organized for them and shareable with caregivers and loved ones.<\/p>\n

\nKin was founded by Arpan and Amit Parikh, brothers and practicing physicians who have seen the problem from every angle, and Kyle Alwyn, founder of HeyDoctor (a consumer healthcare startup acquired by GoodRx).<\/p>\n

\n\u201cYou need to have felt this problem to build the solution to it. We know how powerful \u2013 and overwhelming \u2013 provider conversations can be,\u201d said Amit Parikh, MD. \u201cAll patients want to leave the exam room with a better understanding of what\u2019s happening in their body and what they can do next. Kin gives them a tool to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe most important moment in a patient’s care is the conversation with their doctor. Everything else \u2013 adherence, follow-through, outcomes \u2013 flows from whether they understood it,\u201d said Arpan Parikh, MD, who also serves as CEO of Kin Health. \u201cSo far, that moment hasn\u2019t been addressed for patients. We built Kin to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nJoining them are Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek, co-founders of GoodRx, as Kin’s founding partners and executive chairmen.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe spent a decade proving that consumer health could be a real business without charging patients,\u201d said Hirsch. \u201cKin is the next version of that thesis, starting earlier in the care journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nLike GoodRx, Kin will always be free for patients \u2013 revenue stems from the specialist referrals, labs, and prescriptions that naturally follow a medical appointment, not from the patients who need them.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe best consumer health products remove friction without asking anything in return,\u201d said Alwyn, who also serves as CTO. \u201cWe build tools that allow patients to actually follow through on their care, and only succeed when they do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nKin will use the seed funding to expand its consumer product, deepen its health record capabilities, continue building a best-in-class clinical quality and rigor engine, and begin rolling out downstream care navigation features to turn its understanding layer into an action layer for patients and their loved ones.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cPatients in the US go to about one billion physician appointments<\/a> every year, and until now, they\u2019ve walked out of every single one without a reliable record of what was said,\u201d said Natalie Dillon, Partner at Maveron. \u201cIt\u2019s the most universal friction point in healthcare, and we couldn\u2019t imagine a stronger team to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAbout Kin Health<\/b><\/p>\n

\nKin Health is a free app that records medical appointments and translates them into plain-language summaries, giving patients clarity on what happened and what to do next. Over time, Kin builds a personal health record from the conversations that drive all downstream care, making it actionable, comprehensible and sharable with caregivers and loved ones. Kin is headquartered in Los Angeles and was founded by practicing physicians Arpan and Amit Parikh, Kyle Alwyn, and GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek. For more information, visit www.meetkin.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nPatients can find Kin Health live in the Apple and Google Play app store<\/a>s<\/a>. If you’re a healthcare professional, and want to enable your patients to be informed and engaged with Kin, reach out to clinicians@meetkin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kylie Harrington
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Sisu Brand PR
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