Residence-based most cancers care platform Reimagine Care is increasing its partnership with Houston-based Memorial Hermann Well being System past its flagship hospital, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Middle, to supply oncology sufferers digital, digital and in-home care.
Reimagine Care companions with suppliers and well being plans to coordinate care within the house to keep away from pointless inpatient visits. Reimagine clinicians can remotely monitor sufferers, work with oncologists to find out whether or not sufferers want extra providers and ship house care staff to help.
Memorial Hermann and Reimagine established their partnership final 12 months and introduced information of Memorial Hermann’s funding in Reimagine Care.
By means of the partnership, most cancers sufferers have 24/7 entry to a staff of oncology specialists. Sufferers can join with a staff member by way of SMS textual content, video and cellphone to obtain oncology-focused academic content material, deal with issues about their signs or obtain at-home care, if wanted.
“We’re thrilled about this expanded partnership with Memorial Hermann and what it means for the way forward for affected person care. By deepening our collaboration, we are able to mix Memorial Hermann’s intensive sources with our progressive options to make an actual distinction in how sufferers expertise their most cancers care,” Dan Nardi, CEO of Reimagine Care, instructed MobiHealthNews in an e mail.
“That is all about making care extra private, environment friendly and efficient. We consider this enlargement won’t solely improve the standard of care we ship but additionally result in significant enhancements in affected person outcomes. It’s a giant step ahead, and we’re desirous to see the constructive adjustments it can carry.”
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Earlier this 12 months, Reimagine secured an funding from Oncology Ventures, a cancer-focused enterprise capital fund, although the funding quantity was not made public.
Reimagine additionally introduced a partnership with healthcare supplier Michiana Hematology Oncology (MHO) in Northern Indiana to increase most cancers care providers past the clinic’s partitions.
Final 12 months, Reimagine Care introduced it was partnering with in-home care supplier Denver-based DispatchHealth to offer oncology sufferers entry to virtual-to-home care and coordinated care between Reimagine Care, DispatchHealth and the affected person’s major oncology care staff.
It additionally partnered with the Middle for Most cancers & Blood Issues in Dallas-Fort Price to supply sufferers a home-based supportive care and symptom administration program.
In 2022, Reimagine scored $25 million in Collection A funding and introduced a partnership with advanced care administration platform Memora Well being. Reimagine would leverage Memora’s medical intelligence platform to scale its digital care middle to help most cancers sufferers and caregivers at house.
Reimagine Care has additionally partnered with the College of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to offer care to bone marrow transplant sufferers and California-based Metropolis of Hope.
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