care management

Family enjoying a meal
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:36 pm December 5, 2024
Medical Home Network (MHN), a company that partners with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), announced a collaboration with grocery technology company Instacart to embed Instacart's SNAP eligibility screener on MHN's managed care platform, MHNConnect. The capability will give care teams at the 80-plus FQHCs that MHN partners with a tool within their workflows to decide SNAP eligibility,...
Person having an interactive conversation with a healthcare professional
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:26 pm October 7, 2024
WebMD Ignite, a division of WebMD, has launched Coach, a platform that aims to improve care-management programs by integrating into care managers' workflows allowing them to bring customized health education, videos and interactive resources to members.  Coach expands on the company's set of services designed for health plan care managers, including HealthHub Interactive, which bundles three...
A chat conversation on the Zyla Health mobile app
By  Adam Ang 01:28 am July 6, 2022
Digital health firm Zyla Health has recently raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by venture capital company Seeders.  The round also drew the participation of SuperMorpheus Investment Group, co-founders of Epigamia, Rahul Jain and Uday Thakker, PitchGround CEO Udit Goenka, and Kinderpass founder Sumedha Khoche, among others. WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2017, Zyla provides...
By  Dave Muoio 03:43 pm October 9, 2019
Patient engagement has long been a tough nut for healthcare to crack, and it’s not for a lack of trying. New technologies that meet the patient in their home offer a clear opportunity to meet patients throughout the course of their daily lives, but the tools themselves are only half of the solution — making a real connection is just as much about addressing and responding to each individual’s...
By  Heather Mack 12:39 pm July 12, 2017
Boston-based Wellframe, makers of mobile patient engagement and care management software, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by F-Prime Capital. Existing investors DFJ also contributed, and the new capital brings the company’s total funding to date to $25 million. Wellframe teams up with health plans and providers to offer a suite of customizable care plans that are designed to keep...
By  Heather Mack 04:58 pm August 2, 2016
New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has partnered with Boston-based Wellframe to make Wellframe's mobile platform a part of its Health Care Improvement team. Excellus’s HCI team focuses on integrating care management and quality improvement programs to close gaps in care, and the partnership with Wellframe will help Excellus to achieve those goals through its mobile app. ...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:00 pm July 7, 2016
Silver Spring, Maryland-based mental health care management company Mindoula Health has acquired Care at Hand, a Boston-based healthcare analytics company that offers a mobile-based early warning system for home caregivers, for an undisclosed amount. "We have dedicated our company to transforming what we see as a broken behavioral health system,” Mindoula CEO Steve Sidel said in a statement. “Our...
By  Aditi Pai 10:47 am August 5, 2015
Boston-based healthcare analytics company Care at Hand has raised $560,000. The round was led by strategic investor PCG Public Partnerships, a financial management services firm that helps state, county, and local public agencies to implement a participant-directed service model so they can make personalized choices about which services they receive within their budgets. Care at Hand offers a...
By  Aditi Pai 04:38 am September 8, 2014
Boston-based patient engagement and care management company Wellframe raised $8.5 million in a funding round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with additional investment from Formation 8, Waterline Ventures and Queensbridge Venture Partners. This brings the company's total funding to date to $10 million. Existing investors include athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush; Tim Draper, founder and...
By  Jonah Comstock 08:47 am July 10, 2014
An interactive text-message based care management system was able to create a 40 percent improvement in appointment adherence and modest improvement in medication and care plan adherence, according to new data from New York City-based Sense Health's randomized control trial with Montefiore Medical Center. Sense Health uses pre-scripted but customizable text messaging to help overloaded Medicaid...