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CareMessage

Patient engagement for low-income populations

Y CombinatorWinter 2014ActiveHealthcareHealth TechDigital Health

What they do

Problem

Low-income patient populations face barriers to accessing care and achieving good outcomes due to limited engagement and unaddressed social drivers of health.

Solution

A patient engagement platform (powered by the Health Equity Engine) that combines messaging, data, and interoperability to improve access, outcomes, and health equity at scale.

Who it's for

Healthcare organizations serving low-income communities (e.g., safety-net clinics and health systems) use it to engage patients and coordinate care.

Founders

Vineet Singal
Founder/CEO

Vineet Singal is the Co-Founder and CEO of CareMessage. Previously, he conducted and published peer-reviewed research in molecular biology and epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Vineet has served as a student representative on the Stanford Board of Trustees and the Stanford Medicine Community Council and graduated with University Distinction from Stanford.

Cecilia Corral
Founder/Vice President of Product

Driven by her experiences growing up in a low-income immigrant household, Cecilia takes a patient-centric approach to product development with a relentless focus on user research. Outside of her work at CareMessage, she is an advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry through collecting and publishing data on Latina Tech Founders. Cecilia was on the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare and graduated with a B.S. in Product Design Engineering from Stanford University.

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