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Today In Healthcare: WebMD Pairs With symplr, PYMNTS Ranks Telemedicine Apps And Recuro Health Gets $15M To Expand

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Today in healthcare, WebMD partners with symplr on digital healthcare. Plus, PYMNTS unveils its monthly ranking of telemedicine apps and Recuro Health will use $15 million in Series A funding for digital expansion.

Recuro Health Notches $15M Series A For Digital Expansion

Integrated digital wellness startup Recuro Health has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by ARCH Venture Partners, with participation from existing seed round investors OLSF Ventures, Cortado Ventures, 1843 Capital and Sage Venture Partners.

The Richardson, Texas-based company will use the fresh infusion of capital to continue its plan to acquire other startups, expand its marketing campaign and boost its growth since launching earlier this year.

WebMD, symplr Partnership Reflects Growing Shift To Digitize Healthcare

Health information provider WebMD and provider search platform symplr are partnering on a new search and appointment scheduling tool, the companies announced Tuesday (Aug. 24).

Together, the two companies plan to enable consumers to locate an available doctor and then schedule an appointment in one workflow.

Let The Healing Begin With The Latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking Of Telemedicine Apps

The telehealth sector will be doing around $300 billion annually within the next five years, give or take. Prognostications vary, but it’s getting big.

The PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Telemedicine Apps, updated monthly, asks doctoring apps to say “ah” and tell us about their downloads and metrics, enabling us to rank things scientifically.

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