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Empathy is the first must-have attribute or skill. Being emphatic is ingrained in the Pyx Health culture, and its why our approach is resonating so well. We’re not just going through the motions and building a widget, we care deeply about our cause and our patients and see technology as a lever in enhancing our […]

Company Sees 2,000% Growth and Doubles Users of Solution to Combat Loneliness Epidemic TUCSON, Ariz., April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pyx Health, a tech-enabled services company providing health plans and their members an innovative, scalable solution that effectively addresses the nation’s critical loneliness epidemic, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from Rallyday Partners, a Denver-based private equity […]

Distancing has driven our national narrative for over a year. With guidance from the federal government down to local municipalities, we’ve constantly been encouraged to widen the space between ourselves and others—many times closing ourselves off entirely in quarantine, all in the name of public health. While it’s encouraging that this guidance has resulted in […]

Cindy Jordan’s Pyxir robotic companion While much of the technology being created around COVID-19 focuses on physical health, Pyx Health in Tucson is exploring some of the mental health issues that have surfaced, specifically loneliness and social isolation. Cindy Jordan is CEO of Pyx Health, which uses technology to address loneliness and social isolation. Its […]

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, D.C. I learned a lot about solving […]

Embracing family and human connections are the most critical keys to staying well — and that includes the Pyx family. The connection I have to my staff cannot really be explained because it goes so far beyond the fact that we work together. Every day I see that I am not only helping to change […]

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 quality of relationships that one desires and those one actually has—dramatically increases the risk for mental and physical disease. Loneliness contributes to a wide range of conditions, including dementia, […]

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 Americans. And while there may be nothing quite as effective as in-person interaction, for the […]

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 the couple’s startup company, Pyx Health, is expanding rapidly to widen the use of its […]

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. Let’s face it, we all get lonely. The COVID-19 pandemic has […]

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 CEO Todd Davis, Holualoa Companies and others. Pyx Health combines artificial intelligence and compassionate human intervention […]

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 a call center. “To me, this is just about the straight […]

When Banner Health Network (BHN) was vying for a spot in Arizona’s revamped $14 billion managed Medicaid program, the integrated health care system knew it needed something innovative to meet the state’s expectations for merging physical and behavioral health services. In late 2017, it synced up with emerging mobile technology provider Pyx Health, which focuses […]

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 telephonic and digital options. But for seniors who may be accustomed to visiting community centers, […]

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 […]

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 help patients at risk of loneliness or social isolation following hospitalization […]

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 company kept talking to Todd about me,” said Jordan, founder of Tucson-based Pyx Health, […]