in-home care

Two people sitting on a bed in a home with one being a healthcare provider checking the other one's vitals
By  Jessica Hagen 02:39 pm July 9, 2024
In-home, value-based longitudinal primary care provider HarmonyCares announced it secured $200 million in a funding round, led by General Catalyst, a large national payor and McKesson Ventures.  K2 HealthVentures and existing investors Valtruis, Rubicon Founders, Oak HC/FT and HLM Capital also participated in the round.  WHAT IT DOES HarmonyCares is a physician-led, value-based primary care...
Healthcare provider in a patient's home sitting next to a patient lying in bed
By  Jessica Hagen 07:52 pm January 23, 2024
In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch's in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health.  DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical visits, which can be scheduled via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician arrives at the patient's home...
Healthcare provider sitting next to a patient on a bed listening to their lungs with a stethoscope
By  Jessica Hagen 06:26 pm July 18, 2023
Home-based cancer care platform Reimagine Care announced it is partnering with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to provide virtual-to-home care for oncology patients.  Reimagine Care partners with providers and health plans to coordinate care in the home to avoid unnecessary inpatient visits. Reimagine clinicians can remotely monitor patients, work with oncologists to determine whether...
Person lying in bed with a healthcare provider sitting beside them in a chair holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:21 pm June 15, 2023
Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth announced it is partnering with Georgia-based healthcare system Emory Healthcare to provide patients in-home follow-up and high-acuity medical care.  Through DispatchHealth, patients can request an in-home urgent care medical visit via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician is then scheduled to arrive at the patient's home within...
Healthcare provider helping a patient
By  Jessica Hagen 02:25 pm March 20, 2023
MedArrive, a care management platform merging telehealth and in-person care, is partnering with Ouma Health, a maternity telehealth platform, to expand its mother and fetal in-home care offerings to women on Medicaid. Ouma offers maternal health care services, including prenatal and postpartum visits, perinatal risk stratification and mitigation counseling, behavioral health screenings and...
An aide helps a senior operate a tablet device
By  Dave Muoio 12:44 pm October 28, 2020
San Francisco-based home-care technology company Honor has wrapped up a $140 million Series D funding round. Announced yesterday, the raise was headed by Baillie Gifford, as well as funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates. Also joining was new backer Rock Springs, and prior investors Prosus Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and 8VC. This now brings the company's...
A stethoscope rests on dollar bills
By  Dave Muoio 11:38 am October 26, 2020
Nice Healthcare, a Minneapolis-based video and in-home primary care provider, has raised $5 million in seed funding, MedCity News reports. The funding was headed by Waterline Ventures, and also saw participation from Conductive Ventures and Indie.vc. WHAT IT DOES Offered through employers, Nice Healthcare's business uses a patient mobile app to schedule primary care virtual visits. These can be...
By  Dave Muoio 08:38 am July 29, 2020
Humana has invested $100 million into Heal as part of a new strategic partnership between the two companies. The Series D investment more than doubles Heal's lifetime fundraise, bringing the house call and telehealth platform's lifetime raise to around $170 million. WHAT IT DOES Heal was founded in 2015 as an app that helped users coordinate doctor house calls. Although initially limited to Los...
By  Dave Muoio 12:28 pm February 11, 2020
Gento, a tech-enabled home health staffing startup, has picked up $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Palisades Growth Capital, and brings Gento’s total raise to more than $7 million. WHAT THEY DO Through its app-based platform, Gento (formerly Nursing Without Walls) matches care professionals with post-acute care providers such as home health agencies and skilled nursing...
By  Laura Lovett 03:11 pm March 7, 2019
After a child with a complex condition has been hospitalized and continuously monitored by high-tech devices, it can be a rude awakening for parents when they are sent home with a binder and a pencil to record progress, according to Dr. Jeff Vergales, a pediatric cardiologist at UVA Children’s Hospital.  The University of Virginia is aiming to tackle this problem with a program called Building...