What Arkos Health does

Arkos Health is a private, for-profit virtual care company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, that builds and deploys virtual care platforms for rural healthcare providers and patients across the United States. Its core technology stack combines digital health, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring solutions, with a stated design objective of overcoming the structural barriers — geographic isolation, healthcare workforce shortages, and limited specialist physician access — that affect approximately 61 million rural Americans. The company's platform is positioned as a domain-specialized solution within rural care delivery rather than a general-purpose telehealth tool.

Arkos Health operates as one of six portfolio companies deployed by UPMC Enterprises to drive rural healthcare transformation, giving it a structural alignment with a large, integrated health system's strategic investment arm. Its target customer segment is rural healthcare providers and the patient populations they serve, with a vertical segmentation approach focused on access-gap remediation rather than broad enterprise health IT. The company's go-to-market and revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed; no pricing models, named customer contracts, funding rounds, or revenue figures are present in the available source material.

The leadership team comprises CEO Eric Tanner, co-founders Scott Lipsitz (also serving as CFO) and Jerry Williamson, President and Chief Health Officer Amish Purohit, and Executive Vice President Aaron Duerksen, indicating a founder-led operating model with clinical and financial depth. With 501–1,000 employees and no disclosed subsidiaries, Arkos Health appears to be at scale relative to typical early-stage telehealth vendors, though its exact revenue scale, capital structure, and customer concentration remain undisclosed.

Name

Arkos Health

Website

https://arkoshealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Arkos Health is a UPMC Enterprises-backed virtual care platform company that deploys telemedicine, digital health, and remote patient monitoring solutions to rural healthcare providers and patients across the United States, addressing geographic isolation and specialist access gaps.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Virtual Healthcare Platforms

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual Specialty Care Platforms (tele-stroke, tele-ICU, tele-derm, tele-cardiology) (HLALABAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Chronic Disease Management IoT (Diabetes, CHF, COPD, Hypertension) (HLACAPAD), Home Health Remote Patient Monitoring & Virtual Nursing Providers (HLAFAEAN)

Keywords

• Virtual Care Platforms
• Rural Healthcare Services
• Telemedicine Solutions
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• Healthcare Technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Gilbert

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Arkos Health deploys virtual care platforms targeting rural America, combining telemedicine, digital health, and remote patient monitoring to address geographic isolation, workforce shortages, and specialist access gaps for the approximately 61 million rural Americans. The company sells its platform and associated clinical services to healthcare providers, hospitals, and health plans serving these underserved communities.

Product overview

Arkos Health is a portfolio company under UPMC Enterprises focused on deploying virtual care platforms designed to address healthcare access gaps in rural America, including geographic isolation, workforce shortages, and limited specialist access. The specific product names and architecture details are not available in the provided source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Virtual Care Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Amwell: Amwell operates a broad virtual care platform for health systems, payers, and patients. It directly overlaps with Arkos Health's telemedicine + remote patient monitoring stack and its focus on health-system and rural customers.
• Included Health: Included Health combines virtual primary and behavioral care with care navigation and advocacy for employer and payer clients. It is comparable to Arkos on combining care delivery with navigation/benefits guidance for underserved populations.
• Doctor On Demand (Included Health): Doctor On Demand operates on-demand virtual visits across urgent and primary care, now part of Included Health. Comparable to Arkos for virtual primary/urgent care delivery to commercial and MA populations.
• agilon health: agilon health is a value-based, physician-led care platform focused on Medicare seniors, including in underserved geographies. Comparable to Arkos for senior-focused, geography-anchored care models relying heavily on technology-enabled delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Teladoc Health: Teladoc Health is the largest incumbent in virtual care with a multi-specialty platform serving payers, employers, and providers. It is a broad benchmark for Arkos's virtual primary/specialty care footprint and chronic care programs.
• Oak Street Health: Oak Street Health (now part of CVS Health) operates value-based primary care clinics focused on Medicare seniors, including in medically underserved areas. Comparable for the population focus and rural/underserved market overlap with Arkos.

Emerging players

• Virta Health: Virta Health delivers virtual, clinician-led chronic disease management (diabetes, prediabetes, obesity). Comparable to Arkos on the remote monitoring + chronic care reimbursement angle and longitudinal telehealth economics.
• Hinge Health: Hinge Health provides virtual specialty care (musculoskeletal and women's health) with wearable sensors and remote coaches. Comparable to Arkos on combining virtual specialty access with remote patient monitoring technology.
• Solera Health: Solera Health is a chronic disease prevention and management network that routes members into digital and in-person programs. Comparable on routing/coordination workflows for virtual chronic care, mirroring Arkos's care navigation layer.

Regional players

• HealthMine: HealthMine focuses on chronic care and benefits navigation for Medicare Advantage populations. Comparable in payor-sponsored chronic care and population health outreach use cases that intersect with Arkos's preventive care programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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