CareMessage
Model & Strategy
CareMessage helps clinics, hospitals, community programs and government agencies connect with at-risk patients through the use of text and voice messaging. CareMessage’s software enables partner organizations to automate follow-ups and data collection and to provide disease management, giving patients a critically important information channel to address their healthcare needs.
The organization has also developed text messaging-based disease management programs to enable low-income patients to self-manage various common chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, childhood obesity, congestive heart failure, emphysema, COPD, asthma, HIV and depression.
For Vineet, his childhood obesity meant years of bullying and struggle but ultimately he overcame pre-diabetes and lost over a hundred pounds in the process. This experience inspired him to take a leave of absence from Stanford to volunteer at a free clinic in Galveston, TX, a city ravaged by a Category 4 hurricane and the 2008 economic crisis. His work with the underserved community in Galveston highlighted the crippling long-term effects that chronic diseases have on low-income, uninsured patients and the dearth of existing resources to serve this growing need. Vineet returned to Stanford with a commitment to make a difference and co-founded CareMessage. Upon graduation, Vineet decided to turn down a full scholarship to a top-tier medical school to continue to pursue his passion as CareMessage CEO.
Vineet was honored as a Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur, a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow, and an alumnus of Y Combinator.
IMPACT
In Phase I of their evaluation, CareMessage demonstrated a 92% retention rate and a 70% engagement rate, amongst primarily low-income patient populations.
Phase II evaluations have shown reduced no-show rates for appointments, improvements in rates of preventive screenings, reductions in Finger Stick Blood Glucose levels for diabetic patients, and improved medication adherence for high cholesterol patients.
In 2016, CareMessage grew from 30 to 37 employees and expanded from 136 customers in 30 states to 196 customers in 35 states across the U.S., and more than 1 million patients on the platform.
CareMessage News
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Words to Live by: Baylor Scott and White to Text High-Risk PatientsTo remind patients about medical visits and other issues related to their health, nurses and technicians at several outpatient charity clinics managed by the Baylor…Jan 2017 -
Social Entrepreneurship Goes MobileMorgan Stanley magazine recently featured a closer look at how CareMessage, an innovative non-profit, is using a for-profit tech model to bring improved health care connectivity…Jan 2017 -
Vineet Singal Featured in NYT Magazine as One of Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the WorldIn our confusing health care system, ‘‘patient’s rights’’ can seem like an empty promise. But 25-year-old Vineet Singal’s nonprofit enterprise, CareMessage, is trying to change…Oct 2015 -
CareMessage Raises $3.7 Million in Fundraising CampaignCareMessage has completed raising $3.7 million from some of the country’s most impactful foundations and philanthropists. This funding will catalyze new and exciting growth opportunities…Nov 2014
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe. https…
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RT @noah_weiss: 1/ Why is it so hard to incubate entirely new capabilities within mature products? It’s a feature-level Innovator’s Dilemma…
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RT @caremessage: Why are underserved patients missing their appointments? We conducted a survey and found the top 4 reasons: https://t.co/w…
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RT @caremessage: How do you host a successful company retreat? Read some tips from our office manager, Anne-Marie, about how she planned ou…
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RT @sherifink: The latest estimate for the number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year: roughly 4,600…
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RT @chrislhayes: This is a moral abomination, and a national shame. We’ll be covering it tonight.
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RT @MariniMartinez: Words on life and #leadership from 90 years of lessons learned. “Keep focused. When you are hunting elephants, don’t ge…
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RT @caremessage: The sales team at CareMessage helps build a scalable and sustainable model to drive growth. @mhaylon, our VP of Sales, exp…
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RT @bobkocher: Read the secrets of ChenMed! Here is how one of the best primary care groups in the countries delivers amazing outcomes cos…
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RT @ceciliacorral: Updated list of 50 Latina tech founders! #latinasintech #diversityintech #femalefounders https://t.co/3YCI7W9zKC
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RT @crunchbasenews: Meet Three Latina Tech Founders Challenging Diversity Statistics https://t.co/inZalP58DY by @bayareawriter https://t.co…
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RT @bwertz: .@JeffBezos' annual letter to shareholders contains some of the best management advice you can ever get - this year's is focuse…
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Diversity is an asset and strength to be nurtured. Thank you @ceciliacorral for helping me understand that. https://t.co/PoXZrUxuX2
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RT @harsh1: If you know more, click here to add to the list - https://t.co/tLr8BbEPfH ... great job @ceciliacorral 👏🏽 https://t.co/VFw0L2en…
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RT @ycombinator: .@ceciliacorral of @caremessage (YC W14) put together a list of Latina entrepreneurs who have raised more than $1M in fund…
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RT @caremessage: At CareMessage, a donut a day keeps bad culture away! We love using @donut_ai to help our team members around the world me…
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RT @GovHowardDean: I think top of the list has to be eliminating fee for service medicine. https://t.co/BYlTfV2xoP
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RT @OWHealthEditor: New on #OWHealth: Learn how @caremessage is helping 1.5M underserved patients in the US: https://t.co/G13uVXXG3Y https:…
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RT @trefler_fdn: @caremessage takes an innovative approach to empowering healthcare organizations with mobile technologies to improve healt…