Empathetics Raises $1.5M in Series A Funding

What does Empathetics do?

Empathetics, is an empathy and communications training startup which provides CME certified web based courses mainly to the healthcare industry. it brings innovative empathy and relational skills training to the healthcare sector. It provides interpersonal skills and empathy training for medical professionals based on new and scientifically prove methodology which improves human relationships and makes practicing medicine more efficient and effective.

How much Empathetics was funded?

Empathetics raised $1.5M in Series A funding on April 27^th, 2015 from the investors GDN Holdings and Key Venture Partners.

What is next for Empathetics?

Empathetics will use the funding for expanding ts sales and business enhancement resources for effectively implementing the essential web based empathy and communications training at hospitals, health plans and medical malpractice companies. The investment will also be used for developing extra elearning programs and systems for reaching new constituencies in the healthcare industry, and for building a solid tech infrastructure for supporting the growth of its firm.
Dr.Helen Reiss, Chairman and CSO or Empathetics says that it is great to see healthcare organizations are noticing the importance of the healthcare provider and patient communication and are investing in trainings for improving their patients satisfaction. Empathetics goal is to expand its course offering so that all everybody who is working at a healthcare organization receives the same foundation in skillsets in empathy, which is important for improving the patient experience.

More about Empathetics

Empathetics was founded in 2011 and has its headquarters in Boston. It brings relational skills training and innovative empathy to healthcare sector. The startup offers novel training based in Physiology and neurobiology of human interactions which improve the interpersonal behavior, this will benefit the healthcare providers and the patients. Its training helps in exact interpretation and translation of the emotional communications which result in greater trust, satisfaction and safety for the patients and clinicians.

The Empathetics eLearning programs is changing the way many hospitals are showing interest in increasing their patient satisfaction scores and improve the health outcomes.