Insurance giant Genworth (GNW) has teamed with Timothy Peck — the entrepreneur behind Call9 and Curve Health — on a startup meant to redefine the way older adults connect with skilled nursing and other long-term services and supports. Currently, when older adults and their loved ones are in need, they must start to navigate a […]
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Curve Health raised $12 million in its latest Series A funding round, as the leaders behind the senior care technology platform have plans for significant growth in the next year. Curve Health’s platform includes telemedicine, health information exchange, data and predictive analytics and billing integrations, with the goal of avoiding unnecessary hospital trips and improving […]
Two skilled nursing facilities will soon pilot a new nursing telemedicine platform aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital trips. This Fall, Minnesota-based Southview Acres Health Care Center and California-based Affinity Healthcare Center will test out Curve Health — an expanded successor to telemedicine startup Call9. The facilities are currently training staff to use the system to […]
Senior care tech startup Curve Health raised $6 million in seed funding as the firm seeks to build on a platform developed by its founder’s previous company, the now-defunct skilled nursing telehealth provider Call9. The New York City-based Curve on Thursday announced the results of a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Lightspeed […]
Skilled nursing telehealth provider Call9 last year became another casualty of a central tension between innovation and reality: The law often takes years to catch up to new technology. But a crisis can accelerate the glacial rule-making process, and amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government erased decades of telehealth law in a matter of […]
Skilled nursing-focused telehealth provider Call9 attracted $34 million in venture capital from sources as diverse as the former chairman of tech incubator Y Combinator to actor Ashton Kutcher. But in the end, that cash and high-profile attention wasn’t enough to carry Call9, which is in the midst of suspending its operations, to success in today’s […]
Implicit in the government’s decision to allow Medicare Advantage plans to cover telehealth services with federal dollars is a question: Just because insurance plans legally can do it, will they? At least in the early going, multiple providers of telehealth tech to skilled nursing operators have said yes — and the promise of plan savings […]
The developer of a software platform that has brought substantial hospital readmission cuts to skilled nursing facilities now has a $10 million cash influx to expand its footprint. Real Time Medical Systems raised that haul in a successful funding round involving multiple investors led by SunBridge Capital, Real Time founder and executive chairman Scott Rifkin […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued yet another sign of support for expanding the use of telehealth services in skilled nursing facilities, pointing to a variety of studies that show the technology can save the government money. Writing in a mandated report to Congress released earlier this month, CMS highlighted multiple areas […]
New guidelines that could open up telehealth coverage under Medicare Advantage represent a serious opportunity for the industry, according to multiple technology providers — especially as the moves signal growing support for remote care from key federal officials. Under a proposed rule released late last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would […]
As skilled nursing facilities face pressures to improve care in an increasingly value-focused world, one provider has been able to lower its rehospitalization rate into the single digits by adding in-house emergency care. Call9, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and embeds paramedics on-site at skilled nursing facilities, partnered with the Archdiocese of New York’s long-term care […]
With record-low occupancy, rising labor costs, and other pressures eroding the bottom line, the need for nursing homes to innovate to survive has never been more pressing. In their quest for innovation, skilled nursing providers are turning to new partners, such as a Silicon Valley startup offering a solution to prevent residents from going to hospital emergency departments. […]
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