Harmonic Well being, a tech-enabled dementia care platform, introduced its launch at the moment alongside a partnership with Stoney Batter Household Medication, a medical apply with areas in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
St. Louis-based Harmonic Well being is an organization constructed at Redesign Health, which helps construct, launch and discover funding for digital well being startups.
Harmonic provides complete care-management for sufferers and their caregivers, together with a physician-engagement platform and 24/7 behavioral, social and medical assist.
The corporate additionally provides telehealth, predictive care and academic content material.
By means of its partnership with Stoney Batter Household Medication, the corporate will pilot a program offering physicians and their sufferers with dementia screening, caregiver assist and training, schooling, and referrals for group providers.
“I do know from private expertise that the present state of affairs for treating sufferers with neurodegenerative ailments is ineffective, unsupportive and deeply irritating. Sufferers and caregivers lack assist, and physicians lack the assets to offer complete care,” Harmonic CEO and cofounder Jim Gera stated in an announcement.
“At Harmonic, our objective is to offer that lacking assist and bridge the hole in care by treating every affected person and caregiver with candor, dignity and empathy whereas focusing care particularly via the lens of the illness.”
THE LARGER TREND
Since being based in 2018, Redesign has constructed over 50 well being tech firms. Its portfolio contains New York-based youngsters’s psychological well being platform Fort Health, psychological well being firm UpLift, senior-focused digital well being platform DUOS, most cancers care-coordination platform Jasper Health, home-based care firm MedArrive and weight administration firm Calibrate.
Different digital well being firms within the dementia care house embody Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai, which established a digital well being enterprise concentrating on dementia, and Singapore University of Technology and Design, which constructed a multilingual app for dementia prevention, dubbed Ami (an acronym for Advancing Psychological Invigoration).
