Meet the startups that are quietly powering the future of healthcare

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:

• We mapped out a crop of startups that are providing the backbone for the future of healthcare;
• Xealth just raised $24 million for its approach to helping providers prescribe digital health tools;
• Chapter, a Peter Thiel-backed startup, wants to help older Americans enroll in Medicare.

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Private investors are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a handful of companies quietly powering the digital-health revolution

• Companies like Wheel provide technology for other digital-health companies as a service.
• Investor interest in these companies could mean the digital-health ecosystem is maturing.
• Similar to technology, though, only a few infrastructure companies will remain dominant over time.

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See the 29-slide presentation that scored Xealth $24 million by convincing investors that it's the best way to prescribe health apps

• Xealth sells software for prescribing services like remote patient monitoring or health apps.
• The company raised $24 million in a Series B round led by Advocate Aurora Health's enterprise arm.
• Xealth is betting that tech-based therapies and remote patient monitoring will continue to surge.

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Chapter, a Peter Thiel-backed startup that helps older people enroll in Medicare, just raised $17 million

• Chapter, a startup that helps people enroll in Medicare, just raised $17 million in new funding.
• The Series A round was led by venture firm Narya Capital, and Peter Thiel is joining the board.
• The startup plans to use the funding to hire more advisors and engineers to build better technology.

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More stories we're reading:

• The rules to help you think about our (second) pandemic winter (The Atlantic)
• Fauci says Americans should stay away from COVID-19 booster shots until they're eligible (Insider)
• COVID-19 has killed about as many people in the US as the 1918 flu did (AP)
• Period changes after COVID-19 vaccines were reported 27,000 times in 9 months, but experts say you should still get a shot (Insider)

- Lydia