House-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 Heart, to supply oncology sufferers digital, digital and in-home care.
Reimagine Care companions with suppliers and well being plans to coordinate care within the dwelling to keep away from pointless inpatient visits. Reimagine clinicians can remotely monitor sufferers, work with oncologists to find out whether or not sufferers want further companies and ship dwelling care staff to help.
Memorial Hermann and Reimagine established their partnership final yr 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 workforce of oncology specialists. Sufferers can join with a workforce member by way of SMS textual content, video and cellphone to obtain oncology-focused academic content material, handle 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 will mix Memorial Hermann’s in depth assets with our progressive options to make an actual distinction in how sufferers expertise their most cancers care,” Dan Nardi, CEO of Reimagine Care, advised MobiHealthNews in an e mail.
“That is all about making care extra private, environment friendly and efficient. We imagine this enlargement is not going to solely improve the standard of care we ship but in addition result in significant enhancements in affected person outcomes. It’s a giant step ahead, and we’re desirous to see the constructive modifications it would carry.”
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Earlier this yr, 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 companies past the clinic’s partitions.
Final yr, 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 workforce.
It additionally partnered with the Heart for Most cancers & Blood Problems 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 complicated care administration platform Memora Well being. Reimagine would leverage Memora’s medical intelligence platform to scale its digital care middle to assist most cancers sufferers and caregivers at dwelling.
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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