Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M
THE SO WHAT
Healthcare data plumbing is getting venture-scale attention again—$26M into retrieval tooling is a bet that interoperability friction is now the main blocker, not model capability. If you build in or sell to healthcare, assume patient data access will get easier over the next 12–24 months and design your product and integrations for that world, not the current mess.
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