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Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App
Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App January 7, 2021 By Loni Nannini 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...
Mental Health Champions: How Cindy Jordan of Pyx Health Is Helping To Address The Loneliness Epidemic
Also published on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global Mental Health Champions: How Cindy Jordan of Pyx Health Is Helping To Address The Loneliness Epidemic December 18, 2020 Yitzi Weiner, CEO Authority Magazine Embracing family and human connections are the most...
Managed Healthcare Executive – Defeating Loneliness
Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness December 10, 2020 Cindy Jordan 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...
Inside Tucson Business: Local company develops app to combat loneliness
When COVID-19 swept across the country earlier this year, it exacerbated an ongoing epidemic growing in recent years: isolation. Sociologists and public health experts have tracked a “loneliness epidemic” affecting the mental and physical health of a wide range of...
Arizona Daily Star: ‘Loneliness company’ tackles isolation with timely human-linked app
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered people in their homes, Tucson entrepreneurs Cindy and Anne Jordan launched a tech startup in 2017 to address health problems stemming from loneliness and isolation. Now the pandemic has brought those issues to the fore, and...
KVOA News 4 Tucson: 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....
Pyx Health Joins Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness.
Working to reform a health system that “leaves the lonely behind”Contact: Matt RussellRussell Public Communications(520) 232-9840mrussell@russellpublic.comTucson, AZ (September 2, 2020) -- Pyx Health, a health care IT company targeting the surging loneliness and...
BizTucson: New Funding to Propel Pyx Health to Expanded National Growth
Pyx Health, a health care IT company targeting the surging loneliness and social isolation epidemic, announced today that it has completed a $3.5 million Series A5 round of financing involving Bluestone Ventures, Arizona Founders Fund, LifeLock co-founder and former...
A Tucson Startup Tackles The Loneliness Epidemic
A Tucson Startup Tackles The Loneliness Epidemic Times of Entrepreneurship by by Joel Berg July 16, 2020 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...
Banner Health Deploys App-Based Loneliness Interventions
Banner Health Deploys App-Based Loneliness Interventions Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the June 4, 2020, issue of RADAR on Medicare Advantage When Banner Health Network (BHN) was vying for a spot in Arizona’s revamped $14 billion managed Medicaid program,...
COVID Could Revolutionize How MAOs Address Isolated Seniors
Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the May 7, 2020, issue of RADAR on Medicare Advantage Since COVID-19 reached pandemic status in mid-March, Medicare Advantage and other insurers have had to swap out many of their face-to-face interactions with members for...
AZ Big Media: Making news: Homework Remodels, GlobalMed, Republic Services, Pyx Health
Pyx Health, a healthcare IT startup created as a solution to the U.S. loneliness and social isolation epidemic, today announced it has completed a $1.8 million Series A4 round of financing led by Arizona Founders Fund, and entrepreneur Todd Davis, co-founder and...
MedCity News: With $1.8M fundraise, Pyx wants to be “prescriptive solution to loneliness”
The app stars a friendly chatbot named Pyxir who engages with users through jokes and questions. Its ambitious founder hopes the app can become the prescription for clinical loneliness.Pyx Health has raised $1.8 million to support the growth of an app it designed to...
Pyx Health Secures $1.8 Million Series A4 Financing Round
Tucson, AZ (February 18, 2020) – Pyx Health, a healthcare IT startup created as a solution to the U.S. loneliness and social isolation epidemic, today announced it has completed a $1.8 million Series A4 round of financing led by Arizona Founders Fund, and entrepreneur Todd Davis, co-founder and former CEO of fraud protection giant, LifeLock. Pyx Health combines Artificial Intelligence and compassionate human interventions in an innovative, scalable solution for Medicaid and Medicare healthcare systems and their patients.
Phoenix Business Journal: LifeLock co-founder infuses capital into Arizona health care IT startup
When Todd Davis, co-founder and former CEO of LifeLock, kept hearing from colleagues about a new health care IT company, he reached out to its founder, Cindy Jordan. "Nobody seems to get in with Todd Davis, but some of the last co-investors in my first...