Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will work with digital health startup The Right Place to help connect its post-discharge patients to the best skilled nursing facilities for them.
"Our goal is to help hospitals like BIDMC reduce the administrative burden of matching patients to the right place of care," Katherine Chambers, cofounder and CEO of The Right Place, said in a statement. "...
Texas Medical Center’s Innovation Institute has accepted 13 companies into its four month health accelerator program, called TMCx.
The accelerator plans to run two programs this year, it’s second year in operation. The first, which will run from January to June, TMCx is focusing on digital health companies. The second, which will run from July to December, will focus on medical device companies...
The Right Place has raised $2 million from undisclosed angel investors for a mobile-enabled offering that helps skilled nursing facilities (SNF) with care coordination and patient placement.
“Discharging patients from the hospital to a post-acute care facility is a cumbersome and sometimes biased process that is fraught with challenges,” The Right Place Chief Medical Officer and Cofounder Dr....
