After shutting down their non-medical home care marketplace in February, senior care startup HomeHero is rebranding as an integrative medicine company called Harvey. The company’s name derives from English physician and scientist, William Harvey, who first discovered and explained how blood circulates through the human body.The new company will focus on providing virtual consultations with functional and naturopathic doctors, in-home lab testing and natural therapies to help optimize your health
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Kindly Care Launches Care Exchange to Find Right Home Care Agency
Kindly Care, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace for senior care is announcing today the launch of Care Exchange, enabling home care agencies to collaborate with each other when recruiting, vetting, and training caregivers.Historically, home care agencies competed with each other for their caregivers, but the ever increasing shortage in caregivers is necessitating a more collaborative approach. With Care Exchange, agencies are able to refer caregivers into a shared pool database for all
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Home Care Startup Honor Inks Deal with National Parkinson Foundation
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) to license it’s proprietary care guidance. This partnership gives Honor a unique advantage to train its Care Professionals using NPF care expertise—and to provide superior personalized non-medical care to clients with Parkinson’s.Additionally, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the Honor Care Pro App , containing the Foundation’s content and detailed recommendations for how
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Honor HomeCare Lands Partnership to License American Cancer Society’s Proprietary Care Guidance
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the American Cancer Society to license it's proprietary care guidance. As part of the partnership, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the American Cancer Society's information detailing how to deliver that care to their clients at home through the Honor Care Pro App. Launched in spring 2015, Honor is the home-care solution that helps older adults continue to live and age in their own homes with greater joy,
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In-Home Care Startup Hometeam Pulls In $27.5M for Expert Caregiver Matching
New York-based in-home care startup Hometeam has raised $27.5M in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT with existing investors Lux Capital, IA Ventures and Recruit Strategic Partners. Hometeam transforms the aging experience by providing families expert caregiver matching, custom iPads, and a care team to promote healthy & active days. The capital will be used to accelerate its medical and technology development as it continues to experience ever-increasing growth in New York, New Jersey and
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McKesson Ventures Invests in Home Care Platform ClearCare
Today, McKesson Ventures announced an undisclosed strategic investment in cloud-based home care platform ClearCare. The latest round of strategic funding follows an $11 million funding round in 2014, led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from Cambia Health Solutions and existing investors Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Harbor Pacific Capital. Prior to this strategic investment by McKesson Ventures, ClearCare raised $15.5 million.
As 90 percent of people over
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Home Care Startup Honor Donates $1M in Free In-Home Care Across 10 Cities
The problem of insufficient elder care is one of the biggest issues facing the nation, so much so that it’s now one of top priorities for the White House and the President. Today at the White House Conference on Aging, Seth Sternberg, CEO of Honor is announcing a new initiative to donate $1 million in free in-home care across 10 cities and working with established care providing organizations in those communities to ensure this care goes to helping older Americans. The first city to benefit from
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20 Promising Canadian Digital Health Companies to Watch
“A company’s odds of success are better the closer they can get to their market,” argues Stephen Hurwitz, a thought leader in the Canadian venture capital industry, recognizing that the proximity to a VC-tech hub can help the success rate of Canadian startups.
A socialized healthcare system, Canada’s market is fragmented by province and type of care – most primary and emergency care is free for residents whereas specialty care, prescription drugs, long-term and in-home care amongst others,
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Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization Inc. Launches Innovative Medication History Service
In an emergency department (ED), where patients’ health and safety hang in the balance, every second counts. Now, Inova Alexandria Hospital ED clinicians can quickly access a patient’s prescriptions information, no matter where in the U.S. they were written, enhancing care quality and safety.The April medication history service launch in this busy Washington, D.C. suburb ED marks the first project milestone for the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO). This
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