Scan.com raises $12m for US and UK expansion

An ineffective public medical system has provided an ideal environment for health IT businesses to thrive, tackling issues like shortages of staff and enhancing radiologists’ software infrastructure. One such business is Scan.com, a healthcare imaging firm with offices in London that links patients with facilities for MRI, ultrasound, CT scans & X-ray scans.

As it seeks to improve on its latest U.S. debut, the firm today revealed that it has raised twelve million dollars in an initial round of funding.

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The issue, stated by Scan.com, lies in the fact that regardless of whether a patient can schedule an initial visit with a doctor, the referral procedure that follows to obtain the necessary scan can take months to complete, and they may then endure waiting even longer for the results to arrive.

Scan.com is collaborating with numerous scanning facilities to provide users with convenient reports that are complete with clickable graphics and are provided within a week. This allows people to get healthcare imaging services regardless of a general practitioner’s referral.

By paying in advance to guarantee their scan, members of Scan.com’s digital referral program are then scheduled for a virtual meeting with a doctor within forty-eight hours.

If a scan reveals a critical issue, the patient is placed in Scan.com’s urgent findings pathway, during which a clinical team gets in touch with them to talk about the findings and provide advice to determine what to do next.

“Our clinical team offers consultations and guidance to all patients once they’ve booked, which is a core part of the service we offer,” Scan.com CEO Charlie Bullock explained to TechCrunch. “Their time is included in our scan pricing, which is why we take payment at the point of booking. During the consultation, the clinician can amend the scan type, add or amend body parts, and ensure the scan is both safe and medically justified for the patient’s needs.”

Khalid Latief & Jasper Nissim, two doctors who organized testing for the patients they treated, launched Scan.com about five years ago after growing frustrated with the inefficiencies in the process. Scan.com debuted its service in the United States two months back, and as of now, it has about 30 staff working in both the UK as well as the US.

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With an additional 12 million USD in cash on hand, Scan.com is well-positioned to keep up its U.S. broadening and expanding the scope of its offerings to include things like DEXA scans, echocardiograms, as well as mammograms. The company is also well-funded to pursue business contracts with companies that offer digital health services, staff benefits platforms, and other trade associations.

“Medical imaging covers such a variety of modalities that our focus is to launch as many of these as we can,” Bullock said. “Alongside scans, we also want to design pathways to add value for our patients, such as guided injections for pain relief, or adding in-vitro testing and pathology solutions to our preventative screenings to make them more comprehensive.”