Orb Health raises funds for portal launch to build fuller picture of consumers’ health from lab results, EHRs, wearable data [Video]

Orb Health, a Phoenix-based grad of the Dallas-based healthcare accelerator Health Wildcatters, has raised seed funding as it prepares to launch a portal to connect physicians with labs and patients. The goal is to provide tools that spark communication between physicians and patients about their health. It is also intended to make it easier for lab testing companies to work with physicians.

On the patient side, The company wants to make sense of the data contained in lab results, as well as information from their wearables and EHRs, and convert them into colorful charts that give patients a more meaningful illustration of their health. The idea is that if patients and physicians get a fuller understanding of what they’re doing right and what needs work, it will make interactions with physicians more meaningful.

“It’s a huge differentiator for providers who want to have more engagement with patients on mobile health,” said Paul Oran, co-founder and CEO of Orb Health, in a …