Sense.ly, a virtual nurse platform for patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring has raised $2.2 million in a Series A round of funding, with investors including Launchpad Digital Health, Fenox Venture Capital, and TA Ventures. The company will utilize the capital raised to launch new markets, expand its support of its global customer base, and drive enhancements to its award-winning product, particularly in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
How It Works
Patients sign up with Sense.ly with the click of a button – at home, or at their care facility. Sense.ly follows up with a personalized care plan, allowing clinicians to seamlessly monitor risk factors and adjust clinical protocol as needed. Patients check in with Sense.ly’s mobile-first virtual nurse, Molly to engage patients with natural conversation through a wide variety of circumstances from simple administrative needs through complex chronic conditions requiring medical assistance. Aided by Molly, patients can take their vitals measurements; chat about their pain, sleep, stress, and diet; or be connected to an attending physician via video call, if patients show elevated risks. Based on care plan parameters, and Sense.ly triggers clinician action as needed.
“We see tremendous potential in using Sense.ly’s innovative technology to enable our entire Clinical Commissioning Group to achieve better outcomes at a lower cost for our most highly prevalent conditions such as hypertension and depression,” saidPaul Maybach, CEO, NHS Dudley CCG. “Our patients’ experience to date using the product has been extremely positive and we are anticipating to deploy the technology across the entire organization.”
Dr. Jonathan Darby, (General Practitioner, Halesowen, West Midlands) added: “I am convinced Sense.ly technology will help patients navigate the NHS better, help clinicians manage demand more efficiently and provide invaluable support to doctors in helping to monitor and manage many medical conditions in a far more convenient way for patients, doctors and nurses alike.”
Sense.ly also announced new customers and partners that have deployed the service including the National Health Service of the UK, Dudley CCG, Novartis, and UCSF. Sense.ly’s intuitive interface is available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin, along with 24 other languages, supporting health care administration in various regions of the United States as well as many countries around the world.
