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.
CareMessage grew the number of reachable patients on the platform from 500,000 at the beginning of 2016 to more than 1.4 million by the end of 2017 and works with more than 200 customers in 37 states across the US.
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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Excited for @caremessage to be recognized as a leading solution for patient engagement for underserved populations… https://t.co/W0mpirlJnJ
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Deep analysis on lack of VC fundraising success for WOC https://t.co/9okcm8aACU featuring insights from @ceciliacorral.
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RT @harsh1: Feel lucky to work with 2 shining young stars in #Healthcare, honored by @Forbes #30Under30 today ... @ceciliacorral of @careme…
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RT @a_silverstein: Great list. Glad to see so much diversity in terms of race, gender, experience and goals. Congrats to @broadinstitute @A…
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RT @mwseibel: When I talk to founders often I am very very direct and that can come off as inconsiderate. This is not my intention...
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Thrilled to partner with the teams at @ChapCareOrg and @UCBerkeleySPH to publish data on the efficacy of CareMessag… https://t.co/fuFDTi7tEo
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RT @caremessage: Happy 5th birthday to the CareMessage product! Meet some of our builders: https://t.co/Er4VTvhRUS
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RT @LVehlewald: 1/[Thread] Storytime. Listen up. It’s a long one. But it's important, I promise.
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RT @SUBiodesign: Why do so many #digitalhealth startups fail? @SUBiodesign founder and @StanfordMed professor Paul Yock explains in @FastCo…
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Sounds like he hasn’t worked with a lot of women. https://t.co/C43u96IKQ9