DispatchHealth (formerly known as True North Health Navigation), a Denver, CO-based provider of on-demand healthcare delivery to a patient’s home has raised $33 million in growth capital funding led by Echo Health Ventures, a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions. The funding also included participation from existing investors Alta Partners, Questa Capital and additional strategic investors.Founded in 2013 by two mobile health executives, DispatchHealth’s
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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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How Mobile Devices Are Transforming Home Healthcare
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. With the first of our highly independent Baby Boomers entering into their 70s, home-based healthcare will undoubtedly become a high-growth segment. Because this ever-growing population now prefers to stay in its home longer, providers now need to figure out how to bring healthcare to them. Utilizing mobile devices that most of us already use is the most effective method for doing so. For even the most stubborn technology stragglers, today’s
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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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5 Benefits of Using Mobile Devices in Home Healthcare
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. According to a report done by Frost & Sullivan, smartphones will continue to penetrate the home healthcare sector up to 95% by 2020. The consumer tablet market has been booming and with it being one of the fastest growing sectors in mobile computing (estimated to have 430 million in use by 2018), these devices have quickly found their way into the home healthcare industry. Why purchase multiple devices to do one task, when a smartphone or
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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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Home Healthcare Management with eCaring CEO Robert Herzog
Part 1 interview/Podcast with Robert Herzog, Founder & CEO of eCaring, a web-based home health care monitoring and management system that delivers real-time information from the home to care managers, providers, and family members.
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