Shadow Health offers a cloud-based virtual patient simulator (notably the interactive patient “Tina Jones”) that lets students type questions and receive oral and written responses, view lab results, physical findings and patient history, and submit findings for instant evaluation against expert answers. The simulator supports 1,500 possible patient responses matched to a database of 20,000 questions and is designed to become progressively more challenging as student skills develop. The product is aimed at improving students’ communication, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning through a longitudinal coaching/tutor model rather than one-off simulations. The company has expanded its customer footprint from roughly a half dozen to about two dozen nursing schools and is targeting 20,000–30,000 users. Shadow Health is expanding the software to support two-year nursing and four-year medical school curricula and plans course mappings for physical therapists and pharmacists. The company is based in Gainesville, Florida, and is led by CEO and co‑founder David Massias. Shadow Health is an early-stage company based in Gainesville, Florida that develops digital interactive clinical experiences for medical, nursing and allied health education programs. Led by co-founder and CEO David Massias, the company is building a platform that lets students orally and physically examine a virtual patient on their computers. The simulations are intended to help students develop better bedside manner, improve physical examination procedures, and take more effective patient histories. Shadow Health licensed the underlying technology from the University of Florida. The company intends to use the funding to add educators, subject‑matter experts, engineering, and sales staff in Gainesville to accelerate a nationwide product launch. The article does not disclose the funding amount or the financing instrument.

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$1M

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Jan 2013