After two years of virtual conferences and events, the Sprinter Health team recently had the opportunity to attend the Home Healthcare News Capital+Strategy conference. Our VP of Partnerships, Nick Kirby, was part of a panel entitled, “How Start-ups are Breaking into the Home.”
We are firm believers that increasing access to affordable, evidence-based care can lower overall healthcare costs and improve outcomes. Rather than focus on disruption for disruption’s sake, we’re building a services infrastructure to link the healthcare ecosystem to patients, on their terms. Our business model is designed to augment provider workforces, not replace them. We enable continuous interactions between physicians and their patients, no disjointed black box encounters. And we do this at a price point that can lower the cost of care, not increase it.
In-home care options deliver a patient-centric approach that democratizes healthcare across demographics.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, no industry has been transformed quite as much as the healthcare industry. Thanks to the pandemic, going to the doctor, pharmacy or lab feels downright quaint and old-fashioned. So very 2019. Same with long hospital stays. And these trends are here to stay. Here’s what we can expect in 2022...
This time last year, we still had more questions than answers about COVID-19 and vaccines were not yet available. Many people spent the holidays alone at home out of an abundance of caution. Others got together with friends and family, but may have inadvertently contributed to a rise in infections.
There’s never been a more thrilling time to be part of the healthcare market as emerging innovations bring healthcare into the home! As a startup in the healthcare space, HLTH’s 2021 Conference in Boston was high on our list of industry events...
We all know people close to us, important to us, who have skipped medical care at some point. “I’ll do it next week,” “I just need to find time,” or “I don’t think it’s that important, I feel fine,” are all pretty common refrains...