Israel’s TytoCare Partners With Brazilian Health Tech Company Alice

Israeli telehealth startup, TytoCare, and Brazilian tech-based primary health insurance provider, Alice, jointly announced their new partnership on Wednesday. 

This announcement comes just two months after Alice secured $127 million in a Series C funding round, the largest venture capital round ever reported in Latin America by a health tech company. 

Alice is the first company in Brazil to partner with TytoCare, and it will grant Brazilian patients access to TytoCare’s AI-driven and user-friendly remote examination platform. Brazilian healthcare startup, Tuinda Care, will lead distribution.  

Alice began operating in June 2020 as an innovative tech-enabled health plan providing its members a “health squad” (a family doctor, a nurse, a nutritionist, and a physical trainer) and a private health insurance plan granting access to top-of-the-line hospitals, labs, and a network of medical specialists.  

The newly established partnership with TytoCare will enable Alice to facilitate “seamless digital diagnostics for its members while enabling physicians to offer clinic-quality virtual care”. All the data will be stored in Alice’s app making it available to all health professionals who care for the member to streamline care coordination. 

“This data integration––the first of its kind in Brazil––enables the member’s Health Squad to easily follow up on any chronic or acute condition, providing patients with long-term care while ensuring accuracy, speed, and convenience in both diagnoses and treatment plans,” said André Florence, CEO of Alice. “TytoCare also reduces costs and the need for travel to and from hospitals and clinics. In addition, it enables the health professional to share vital information with other physicians and specialists for a second opinion.”

Currently, 15 percent of digital queries use TytoCare’s support. This figure is expected to continue growing as a result of the new partnership and integration with Alice’s services.  

Founded in 2012, TytoCare offers remote examination kits and an all-in-one telehealth AI platform that virtually links patients and healthcare professionals. Its service enables people to self-conduct examinations of the heart, lungs, skin, throat, and ears as well as temperature readings from anywhere at any time, supplying healthcare providers with the clinical data they need to monitor, diagnose, and treat patients without the need for an in-person visit. 

Co-founded by Dedi Gilad and Ofer Tzadik, TytoCare has FDA and CE clearances and has partnered with over 170 major health systems, health plans, and strategic partners in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Israel.