Digital GP provider Push Doctor has been acquired by Square Health for an undisclosed fee.
Founded in 2013, Push Doctor has around 100 staff and provides services to NHS as well as private patients. This includes GPs, physiotherapists, nurses and pharmacists.
Following the acquisition, the Push Doctor business will become a division and trading brand of Square Health, which is a provider of private digital healthcare for insurance companies and corporates.
Dr Bippon Vinayak, co-founder and executive chairman of Square Health, said: “We are delighted to welcome the very capable Push Doctor team to the Square Health family.
“The two businesses are highly complementary, working in separate sectors and allow the opportunity to bring the best in clinical, technological and service delivery.”
Push Dr is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and was last rated as ‘good’ in 2019 and features API integrations with NHS patient medical records.
Matt Elcock, co-founder and managing director of Push Doctor, added: “I am delighted that Push Doctor is joining the Square Health family.
“I’m very excited to be working with Bippon and his team and am sure the business will go from strength to strength as we extend our range of services to customers and support the NHS at this critical time.”
30 December 2021 @ 01:50
In what sense does Square Health “provide private digital healthcare for insurance companies and corporates”? Does this mean that they provide private healthcare for employees of insurance companies and corporates? Or does it mean that they provide health screening required by insurance companies and corporates? If the latter, then Square Health and Push Doctor are indeed complementary. I apply for insurance and get screened by Square Health. Since they will be part of the same company, Push Doctor can conveniently and secretly provide confidential health data to complement and corroborate (or contradict) that gathered from official health screening. Similarly, corporates might be screening employees or job applicants and would welcome additional data gathered without the knowledge of the data subject. It is very much of a piece with the general presumption across industry, and the NHS, that there is no place in healthcare for confidentiality and that data users have a right to any personal data they happen to want for any purpose, this without the consent or knowledge of the data subject. It is also of a piece with the government policy of harnessing healthcare to industry, which is an absolute disaster in every way. No doubt industry will thrive. Healthcare worth the name will be systematically destroyed.