PatientIQ raises $30 million Series C to power the next generation of patient-reported outcomes intelligence. PatientIQ: Sep 3, 2026, 8:00:02 AM CHICAGO, September, 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - PatientIQ, the patient outcomes intelligence platform trusted by more than 870 healthcare organizations and 17 million patients across the United States, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Hughes & Company, a Chicago-based growth equity firm that invests in healthcare software and technology-enabled service companies. Hughes & Company joins current investors: Health Enterprise Partners and August Capital. Travis Hughes, Founder and Managing Partner of Hughes & Company, will join PatientIQ's Board of Directors. The financing accelerates PatientIQ's next phase of growth: deepening its presence across existing specialties and health systems, expanding its real-world evidence platform for medical device and life sciences companies, and building a direct-to-patient commerce experience that connects patients to products and services through its growing marketplace. "We spent a year studying the patient-reported outcomes space," said Travis Hughes, Founder and Managing Partner of Hughes & Company. "What we found in PatientIQ is something rare - a company that helped create and define an entirely new category that has a meaningful impact on quality of care. We are excited to be part of PatientIQ's next chapter of growth." Since its Series B in 2022, PatientIQ has grown its EHR-integrated network from 200 healthcare organizations to more than 870, expanded its patient population on the network to over 17 million, and surpassed 70 million patient outcomes collected. The company serves healthcare organizations across more than 20 medical specialties, and powers automated data collection for leading medical device & life science companies, as well as national clinical registries for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), and Society for Thoracic Surgeons. PatientIQ's cloud-based platform integrates with more than 50 EHR systems - including Epic, Oracle Cerner, and Athenahealth - automating outcomes capture within existing clinical workflows. "The reason outcomes data has been so hard to act on in healthcare isn't a lack of will - it's a lack of infrastructure," said Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ. "Building that infrastructure, specialty by specialty, workflow by workflow, is what PatientIQ has been doing for a decade. This investment is validation that the approach is working, and the fuel to take it much further." About Hughes & Company Hughes & Company is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in software and technology-enabled services within the healthcare sector. The firm aims to partner with companies to drive growth and innovation, pairing strategic guidance and capital to scale solutions that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. www.hughes-co.com. About PatientIQ PatientIQ is the leading outcomes intelligence platform, trusted by more than 870 healthcare organizations to collect, analyze, and improve patient outcomes. With over 70 million patient-reported outcomes gathered from customers including Northwell Health, Sutter Health, Mercy, Advocate Health, Johnson & Johnson, and Zimmer Biomet, PatientIQ turns the patient voice into actionable insights that drive regulatory compliance, financial performance, and clinical impact. www.patientiq.io

Why outcomes intelligence is having its moment - and what PatientIQ is building next. Kara Linde: Sep 3, 2026, 8:00:01 AM Today, PatientIQ announced $30 million in Series C funding, led by Hughes & Company, with Travis Hughes joining its Board of Directors. It's a milestone PatientIQ is proud of, and one that reflects a broader shift happening across the healthcare industry right now. For years, the conversation around patient-reported outcomes followed a familiar pattern. Clinicians understood the value, researchers wanted the data, and health systems knew measurement mattered. And yet, systematic outcomes collection remained the exception rather than the rule. That's changing, and faster than most of the industry expected. Healthcare is at an Inflection Point CMS is expanding patient-reported outcome requirements across surgical and procedural specialties. Payers are increasingly tying reimbursement to demonstrated clinical results rather than volume of services delivered. Medical device and life sciences companies face growing regulatory and commercial pressure to generate real-world evidence, data that can only come from patients being systematically measured in clinical settings, at scale. The industry is being pushed, from multiple directions at once, toward a simple but consequential requirement: prove that care works - and most organizations don't yet have the infrastructure to do it. The Infrastructure Gap Outcomes data have always existed in healthcare. Patients report how they feel, surgeons observe results, and registries capture snapshots of performance over time. But when that data lives outside clinical workflows, it doesn't get collected consistently. When it can't be benchmarked across organizations, it can't drive meaningful improvement. And when insights never reach the point of care, they can't change how patients are treated. This is the gap PatientIQ was built to close. Not by adding another data collection tool to an already burdened clinical environment, but by building outcomes measurement directly into the workflows providers already use, inside the EHR, automated, and connected across organizations. The result is outcomes intelligence that actually works in practice: high collection rates, consistent data quality, and benchmarks that mean something because they're drawn from a network of hundreds of organizations measuring the same patients in the same way. As Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, put it: "The reason outcomes data has been so hard to act on in healthcare isn't a lack of will. It's a lack of infrastructure. Building that infrastructure, specialty by specialty, workflow by workflow, is what PatientIQ has been doing for a decade. This investment is validation that the approach is working, and the fuel to take it much further." Where PatientIQ is Today Since its Series B in 2022, PatientIQ has grown from 200 healthcare organizations to more than 870, expanded its network patient population to over 17 million, and surpassed 70 million patient outcomes collected. PatientIQ integrate with more than 50 EHR systems, including Epic, Oracle Cerner, and Athenahealth, and serve organizations across more than 20 medical specialties. PatientIQ power national registries for AAOS, AANS, and the Society for Thoracic Surgeons. That growth isn't incidental. It reflects a market that is ready for this infrastructure and increasingly understands why having it matters. What $30 Million Makes Possible This investment accelerates growth in three areas that reflect where the industry is heading. First, PatientIQ is going deeper into the specialties and health systems PatientIQ already serve. The benchmarks that make outcomes data meaningful get stronger as more organizations contribute to them, which means network growth benefits every organization already on the platform. Second, PatientIQ is expanding its real-world evidence platform for medical device and life sciences companies. As regulatory and commercial pressure for outcomes evidence intensifies, PatientIQ is positioned to provide industry partners with faster access to high-quality, EHR-integrated outcomes data generated within clinical workflows rather than extracted from them after the fact. Third, PatientIQ is building a direct-to-patient experience through its growing marketplace, connecting patients to the products and services that support their care journey and creating a new layer of engagement between outcomes data and the people it ultimately serves. Travis Hughes, Founder and Managing Partner of Hughes & Company, shared why the firm led the round: "We spent a year studying the patient-reported outcomes space. What we found in PatientIQ is something rare - a company that helped create and define an entirely new category that has a meaningful impact on quality of care. We are excited to be part of PatientIQ's next chapter of growth." The Regulatory Mandate The shift toward outcomes-based care is not a trend. It's a structural change in how healthcare is measured, reimbursed, and evaluated. The organizations that build the infrastructure to participate in that shift now will be better positioned for what comes next, whether that's CMS reporting requirements, payer contracts, registry participation, or real-world evidence generation for device submissions. PatientIQ exists to make that infrastructure accessible, not just to the largest health systems with dedicated data teams, but to any organization that delivers care and wants to understand whether it's working. Outcomes data have always existed in healthcare. PatientIQ is building the infrastructure to make it matter. If you're a health system, specialty practice, or medical device company ready to build a stronger outcomes program, reach out at patientiq.io. You can also read the full press release here.

EHR Integration isn't a feature - It's the foundation: how PatientIQ embeds into existing workflows. Kara Linde: Jun 18, 2026 12:35:39 PM Outcomes programs fail quietly. Not because the clinical teams didn't want the data. Not because the technology was broken. They fail because they added one more system, one more login, one more thing a coordinator had to remember to do at the end of a busy clinic day. The assumption baked into many outcomes platforms is that clinical staff will adapt to the tool. PatientIQ is built on the opposite premise: the tool adapts to how care already happens. The Workflow Problem No One Wants to Admit Most health systems pursuing patient-reported outcomes end up with a collection process that lives entirely outside the EHR. A patient gets a survey link from a separate system. A staff member manually reconciles the response. Someone exports a report that doesn't quite match how the EMR structures data. The burden compounds. This isn't a failure of effort - it's a failure of architecture. When an outcomes platform is bolted onto a clinical workflow rather than built into it, the friction accumulates at every step. Collection rates suffer. Staff burn out on manual follow-up. And the data that does come in can't be acted on where clinical decisions are actually made: inside the EHR, at the point of care. The result is a familiar pattern: an outcomes program that works well in a pilot, then quietly degrades as the clinical team's attention turns elsewhere. What Native EHR Integration Actually Means PatientIQ integrates natively with 50+ EHR systems, including Epic, Cerner, Oracle Health, and Athenahealth. That word - natively - is doing a lot of work, so it is worth unpacking. Native integration means the connection is bidirectional and event-driven. When a visit is scheduled and a patient chart is updated in the EHR, PatientIQ detects that event automatically. The patient is enrolled in the appropriate care pathway. PRO surveys are assigned based on the procedure or condition. The patient receives a text or email and completes their survey on a phone - no app download, no portal login, no staff intervention required. When the response comes back, it appears directly in the clinician's EHR workflow. The care team does not toggle between systems. They do not need to know what PatientIQ looks like. The outcomes data is just there, where the work happens. This is different from an integration that syncs data overnight or pushes results to a separate dashboard. It is different from a middleware layer that requires an IT project to configure and another one to maintain. The architecture is designed so that outcomes measurement becomes a property of the existing clinical workflow - not a parallel process that competes with it. Why This Changes What Outcomes Data Is Worth The practical consequence of deep EHR integration is not just operational convenience. It changes the quality and completeness of the data itself. PatientIQ achieves an 80%+ blended collection rate across all survey timepoints - not by adding headcount, but by removing the friction that causes non-response through automation and engineering. Patients engage with their care in the same way they are already being communicated with. Staff don't have to chase down missing surveys. Data arrives consistently, across the patient population, without anyone having to manage it. For health systems trying to meet CMS reporting requirements, build a quality improvement program, or contribute to a registry, consistent collection rates are not a nice-to-have. They are what separates usable data from a dataset full of gaps. A collection rate in the 30-50% range - common in manual or standalone-system environments - does not support the kind of analysis that clinical leaders need to act on. Data that comes from 80%+ of your patients across every survey timepoint, captured without adding staff burden, is a different asset entirely. The IT Perspective: What "No Additional Steps" Actually Costs From a health system IT team's vantage point, every new clinical tool carries an integration cost. Deployment timelines, custom builds, ongoing maintenance, and the organizational lift of training staff on a new system all factor in. PatientIQ is designed to minimize this surface area. The platform integrates with existing EHR infrastructure without requiring custom development on the provider side. Implementation is designed to fit within existing IT project structures rather than create new ones. And because the data flows through existing clinical workflows, staff training requirements are minimal - clinical teams continue using the systems they already know. This matters particularly for health systems managing multiple sites, service lines, or EHR instances. PatientIQ supports enterprise deployment at scale while maintaining the flexibility to configure care pathways, survey instruments, and reporting by specialty, location, or provider group. Outcomes Data Where Clinical Decisions Get Made The most important thing about EHR integration is not the technical architecture. It is what becomes possible when outcomes data exists in the same place as the clinical record. When a surgeon can see a patient's PRO trend directly in the EHR before a visit, that data informs the conversation - not a post-visit report that arrives days later. When a quality leader can pull outcomes alongside EHR-documented clinical variables, the analysis has the context to be meaningful. When a registry submission draws from automated, EHR-integrated collection rather than manual extraction, the data is complete enough to matter. This is the gap that integration is actually closing: not between two software systems, but between measurement and the clinical decisions that measurement is supposed to support. PatientIQ's approach to EHR integration is not a feature listed on a spec sheet. It is the structural choice that determines whether an outcomes program produces data or produces insight. See how PatientIQ integrates with your EHR environment.