Augmedix Announces Additional $19 Million in Series B Funding

Augmedix announced today that it has received $19 million in Series B funding that includes investments from McKesson Ventures, Redmile Group, DCM Ventures, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and others.

The company will use the funding to accelerate product development, including automation capabilities, and to strategically scale its technology-enabled service across health systems and private clinics nationwide.

“We have strong confidence in the Augmedix team’s ability to execute on its goal of reducing physician burnout and significantly improving their quality of life,” said Tom Rodgers, senior vice president and managing director at McKesson Ventures. “Augmedix is uniquely positioned to leverage trained medical documentation experts increasingly enabled by artificial intelligence to deliver a consumer-grade experience for the clinician that results in more accurate and timely documentation in the most cost-effective manner possible.”

Fifteen national health systems representing more than 10 percent of the clinicians in the United States, have partnered with Augmedix.

“Augmedix has expanded our care teams in a novel way, supporting clinicians from primary care to dermatology and gastroenterology,” said Albert Chan, M.D., M.S., chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, one of the health systems using Augmedix’s technology. “Augmedix has helped our efforts to enhance clinician-patient visits and to boost clinician productivity by maximizing more of our time together.”

“We appreciate the confidence our investors have shown in Augmedix and are excited by how quickly the industry has adopted our service,” said Augmedix Chief Executive Officer Manny Krakaris. “Our service is differentiated because it operates in real time and is enabled by natural conversation, not burdensome single-party dictation. The combination of our proprietary technology and expert teams reliably delivers the highest-quality medical notes, thus relieving health care providers of that burden. We will continue to be at the forefront of medical documentation services by investing heavily in technology that will enable us to efficiently deliver additional services and features to our health system customers.”

Read the full press release here.