Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App

Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App

Cindy Jordan loves her iPad, rides a Peloton and develops healthcare technology for a living, but she doesn’t consider herself a techie. “I hire tech people, but I am a problem solver,” Jordan said. “When I was 21, I was a police officer in a suburb of Washington,...
Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness

Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness

Health technology may help patients struggling with loneliness. Loneliness costs, and loneliness kills. It is well documented that loneliness—the discrepancy between the number and quality of relationships that one desires and those one actually has—dramatically...
Feeling lonely? There’s an app for that!

Feeling lonely? There’s an app for that!

TUCSON (KVOA) – The COVID-19 Pandemic has not only brought on physical issues but emotional and mental problems as well. One-third of adults are chronically lonely. It is hard to identify members who are suffering – unlike diabetes, there is no “test” for loneliness....
A Tucson Startup Tackles The Loneliness Epidemic

A Tucson Startup Tackles The Loneliness Epidemic

Cindy Jordan is neither a psychologist nor a techie, but she founded a company in 2017 that blends elements of both: Pyx Health. Based in Tucson, Arizona, the startup contracts with insurers to identify and alleviate loneliness among at-risk members through an app and...