Care3 News & Events
Care3 Selected as a Finalist in 20th Innovations in Healthcare ABBY Awards
(Los Angeles, CA) – Care3™ (www.care3.co), the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community, has been selected as a finalist in the 20th Innovations in Healthcare ABBY Awards. The final competition will be held in San Francisco, CA on December 12.
“Care3 uses text, media, and data to create a full digital picture of care delivered outside of health facilities,” said David S. Williams, CEO of Care3, who will present at the awards event. “Care3 has been proven to reduce falls leading to emergency visits and hospitalizations, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars each month for senior care programs.”
Care3 currently serves the senior care community through partnerships with risk-bearing health entities including Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) for collaboration on care in the home and community. The company is also exploring partnerships with health insurers looking for innovation to reduce costs and increase patient and family engagement.
The event will be hosted by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, whose first awards event was held in 1999, and since then has recognized over 60 innovative organizations whose approaches and technologies are making dramatic inroads in the quest to improve the quality of care and health outcomes – while reducing its cost. And this year, more than any other before, many of these innovations are blending technology with the human touch provided by providers, caregivers, and even family members and friends.
Past ABBY Award Winners: Previous ABBY Award Winners include numerous companies that have made breakthroughs and transformative advances in medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, information technology, and electronic solutions, as well as organizations that have applied innovative systems and technology to providing care and coverage, decreasing the numbers of uninsured, and engaging healthcare consumers more actively in their care and health status - all with a view to reducing the cost of quality care.
About Care3™
Care3™ is the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community. The HIPAA compliant Care3 platform helps collaborative care programs (e.g. PACE) operate more effectively by driving visibility and accountability for care delivered outside of health facilities. This unprecedented insight enables care teams to intervene to prevent costly outcomes such as emergency visits and hospitalizations. Learn more at www.care3.co, or contact us for a demo at demo@care3.co.
MitoAction and Care3 Announce Global Innovation Partnership Focused on Mitochondrial Disease
(Los Angeles, CA and Boston, MA) – June 12, 2018 – MitoAction (www.mitoaction.org), a leading patient advocacy organization within the mitochondrial disease community and Care3™ (www.care3.co), the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community, announce a global innovation partnership focused on advancing the knowledge of and care delivery for mitochondrial disease. This partnership aims to provide a unique platform to help families manage the complexities of day-to-day care, as well as facilitate enhanced communication with their personal and clinical care teams. The partnership goals include capturing critical information to help researchers and clinicians learn more about this rare disease to aid in the development of therapies, and ultimately a cure for mitochondrial disease.
“The platform that has resulted from this partnership will not only help families to manage their daily journey with mitochondrial disease, but will also improve communication with their care team and allow clinicians and researchers to gain a better understanding of the disease.” said Kira Mann, CEO of MitoAction. “We believe this platform is the first step in transforming the management and delivery of care, not only for those affected by mitochondrial disease, but the entire rare disease community. We are incredibly proud of our new partnership with Care3 and believe this type of collaborative innovation allows us to push the envelope on what is possible in utilizing technology with rare disease care. “
Care3 currently serves the senior care and special needs communities with digital data and collaboration tools for care in the home.
“In addition to senior care, Care3 can shine a light on the challenges faced by patients and families affected by mitochondrial disease and the correlations that exist between diagnosis, symptoms, treatment plan execution and quality of life,” adds David S. Williams, Co-Founder & CEO of Care3. “It’s our mission to bring healthcare equality to everyone and mitochondrial disease hasn’t received the innovation attention it deserves.”
MitoAction and Care3 plan to launch the joint platform in Summer of 2018 as the first phase in the multi-phase partnership. For more information, visit www.mitoaction.org/care3 and www.care3.co/mitoaction.
About MitoAction
MitoAction is a Boston based nonprofit whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children, adults, and families living with mitochondrial disease through support, education, outreach, advocacy, and clinical research initiatives. Since its founding in 2005, MitoAction has served families from across the U.S. and the globe, working tirelessly to offer comprehensive, up-to-date, expert resources, information, and support at no cost to any patient, family, clinician, educator, or member of the community. Learn more at www.mitoaction.org.
About Care3™
Care3™ is the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community. The HIPAA compliant Care3 platform helps collaborative care programs (e.g. PACE) operate more effectively by driving visibility and accountability for care delivered outside of health facilities. This unprecedented insight enables care teams to intervene to prevent costly outcomes such as emergency visits and hospitalizations. Learn more at www.care3.co.
Care3 to Sponsor National PACE Association Annual Conference
(Los Angeles, CA) – October 10, 2017 – Care3™(www.care3.co/blog), the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community, is sponsoring the 2017 National PACE Association Annual Conference. Care3 makes it easier for interdisciplinary care teams to collaborate with patients and families around a single care plan, helping to optimize care and avoid negative outcomes like emergency visits and hospitalizations.
Care3 CEO David Williams will address the conference about technology innovation for PACE and introduce keynote speaker, BJ Miller, MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “PACE providers know exactly what care is delivered while participants are in the center, but there is very little insight once they leave,” said Williams. “Care3 solves that problem and we are excited to support the NPA Annual Conference to help PACE organizations extend their care plans outside of the center.”
Recently recognized by Healthcare Tech Outlook as one of 10 Most Promising Healthcare Communications Apps for 2017, Care3 combines mobile and social technologies to drive greater collaboration in care delivery across settings to keep seniors and others living comfortably in their homes. Care3 is currently working with multiple PACE programs to improve care collaboration.
The 2017 NPA Annual Conference will be held Oct. 15-18 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA. Visit Care3 at booth #28 to learn more about Care3 for PACE and for a chance to win this year’s exhibitor BINGO.
About Care3™
Care3™ is the world’s first team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community. The HIPAA compliant Care3 platform helps collaborative care programs (e.g. PACE) operate more effectively by driving visibility and accountability for care delivered outside of health facilities. This unprecedented insight enables care teams to intervene to prevent costly outcomes such as emergency visits and hospitalizations. Learn more at www.care3.co/blog.
Care3 Awarded "Most Promising Healthcare Communication Solution Provider"
(Los Angeles, CA) – April 10, 2017 – Care3™(www.care3.co/blog), a leading developer of digital health technology, has been recognized as one of the Most Promising Healthcare Communication Solution Providers by Healthcare Tech Outlook. This elite ranking is a collection of the most influential and visionary companies that have designed groundbreaking communications solutions to the most urgent problems in healthcare.“We are honored to receive this prestigious recognition,” said David S. Williams, Co-Founder & CEO of Care3. “If interdisciplinary care teams collaborate with families around patient care delivery in the home and community using real-time communications and structured data to support prospective care planning, we will permanently improve quality of care for the underserved.”
“Care3’s selection was based on creating a truly collaborative platform for providers and families to deliver consistent high quality care for underserved populations,” said Alex D’ Souza, Managing Editor of Healthcare Tech Outlook.“Care3 is addressing a major problem that many of our readers have been urgently trying to solve.”
To request a demo, email demo@care3.co.
About Care3™
Care3 elegantly combines patient and family engagement with post-acute care coordination on one platform to improve outcomes and reduce costly hospital readmissions for underserved populations including seniors, people of color, and the disabled. Care3 is inspired by the realization that the most vulnerable members of our society do not have equal access to healthcare and receive woefully inadequate quality of care in their homes and communities. Care3 is built to fix these unacceptable and unnecessary inequities. Learn more at http://care3.co/.
Care3 Launches New Android Version of Its Flagship Family Caregiving App
(Los Angeles, CA) – January 15, 2017 – Care3™, a leading developer of mobile health technology, is proud to announce the launch of the new Android version of its flagship family caregiving app. Care3 built the Android app to be used by family caregivers and professional home care aides for collaboration around care delivered in the home.
"We built the Android app for the greatest number of people to benefit from our platform for families," says David Williams, co-founder and CEO of Care3.
The Android app has both phone and tablet versions ready for download.
Download the Care3 Android app on Google Play.
Care3 and USC Family Caregiver Support Center Team Up to Help Families Coordinate Care
C3_logo_word
(Los Angeles, CA) - September 12, 2016 - Care3™, a leading developer of mobile health technology, has announced a partnership with the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and their Family Caregiver Support Center to provide care planning and secure communication resources to all Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center clients and their families.
"We are honored to be chosen by USC and the Family Caregiver Support Center,” says Care3 Co-Founder and CEO David Williams, “Families receiving services from the LACRC are typically underserved and have low access to healthcare in their communities. Care3 can help bridge that care gap and coordinate care between family and providers."
Care3_bundle_platform
Care3™ plans to work with hospitals, health insurers, and other health entities to digitize and mobilize their care instructions while also making them more consumer friendly. Care3 will deliver each task step-by-step over their HIPAA-compliant care-sharing mobile app.
"We can use Care3 to empower our caregiver clients to not only take care of their loved ones, but take better care of themselves as well," says Donna Benton, PhD, Director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center (http://fcscgero.org).
Family caregivers often develop illnesses while caring for loved ones. The collaboration will address caregiver stress, burnout, and other health issues.
About Care3™
Founded by three former Aetna executives with successful entrepreneurial backgrounds in consumer and enterprise health technology, Care3 elegantly combines patient and family engagement with post-acute care coordination on the same mobile and web-based platform to improve outcomes and reduce costly hospital readmissions for underserved populations including seniors, people of color, and the disabled. Care3 is inspired by the realization that the most vulnerable members of our society do not have equal access to healthcare and receive woefully inadequate quality of care in their homes and communities. Care3 is built to fix these unacceptable and unnecessary inequities. Learn more at http://care3.co/blog.
Care3™ launches Starter Care Plan feature to help caregivers get into their groove
2-care3-startercareplan
(Los Angeles, CA) - July 6, 2016 - Care3™, a leading developer of mobile health technology, has launched a new feature called Starter Care Plan for all iPhone and iPad app users. Successful caregiving depends on having the goals set and the tasks laid in a routine that families can follow every single day. Starter Care Plan offers a set of the most common care tasks that family caregivers face when caring for a loved one, thus helping to integrate the tasks into a new caregiving routine. “At Care3, we call this routine your ‘groove.’ Getting into your caregiving groove means you’ve integrated caregiving into your personal and professional life. When you’re in the groove, you’re efficient, effective, and your stress level is manageable.” explains David Williams, Care3 Co-Founder and CEO.
Starter Care Plan is designed to get family caregivers into their caregiving groove as quickly as possible. Users first create their Care Team and then are prompted to create the Starter Care Plan. This creates daily and weekly Actions that families share so that no one has to complete all of the care tasks alone, avoiding high stress, missed days of work, and burnout.
Family caregivers can also send Care3 discharge instructions to make them mobile for a nominal fee. Caregivers simply email their paper discharge plans after downloading the FREE mobile app and signing up.
About Care3™
Founded by three former Aetna executives with successful entrepreneurial backgrounds in consumer and enterprise health technology, Care3 elegantly combines patient and family engagement with post-acute care coordination on the same platform to improve outcomes and reduce costly hospital readmissions for underserved populations including seniors, people of color, and the disabled. Download the FREE Care3 mobile app on the App Store now. Learn more at www.care3.co/blog.
Care3 Launches New iPad Version of Family Caregiving App
(Los Angeles, CA) – May 9, 2016 – Care3™, a leading developer of mobile health technology, is proud to announce the launch of the new iPad version of its flagship care-sharing app. Care3 built the iPad app to be used by family caregivers and professional home care aides when a greater number of tasks are being shared in a conversation.
ipad-1-care3-messaging
"We built the iPad app for people who need a little more to appear on a screen at point-of-care. Independent home care providers and care managers have been the most vocal about having an iPad version and we're happy to accommodate as they do God's work caring for our loved ones," says David Williams, co-founder and CEO of Care3.
Subtle user interface differences between the iPhone version and the iPad version highlight greater visibility of actions for care-sharing for those with higher amounts of actions to complete. Care3 works with any wifi-enabled system so doesn't require a cellular phone connection to be used.
Download the Care3 iPad app on the iTunes App Store.
About Care3™
Founded by three former Aetna executives with 30 years of collective experience caring for aging relatives and special needs children, Care3 solves the problem of organizing care tasks, sequencing them for real-time completion and mobilizing so care can be delivered anywhere. Learn more at www.care3.co/blog.
Care3™ Raises $500K to Make All Care Instructions Mobile for Patients and Family Caregivers
(Los Angeles, CA) - April 26, 2016 - Care3™, a leading developer of mobile health technology, has raised $500,000 from a blue chip collection of angel investors to mobilize paper care instructions including those provided at hospital discharge. Care instructions today are typically paper-based, full of clinical jargon and shared only with patients and not family caregivers. These factors make care instructions difficult to maintain, follow, and implement successfully leading to costly hospital readmissions." Our founding team and investors have been through the situation of caring for someone discharged from the hospital,” explains Care3 Co-Founder and CEO David Williams, “Distributing these critical care instructions via paper is simply unacceptable in 2016."
care3-press-medres
Care3™ plans to work with hospitals, health insurers, and other health entities to digitize and mobilize their care instructions while also making them more consumer friendly. Care3 will deliver each task step-by-step over their HIPAA-compliant care-sharing mobile app.
"I invested in Care3 because the founding team has both personal experience caring for loved ones and decades of highly relevant healthcare industry experience." explains Jabari Reeves, MD, MBA, a San Francisco-based emergency medicine physician.
Family caregivers can also send Care3 their discharge or other paper-based care instructions to make them mobile for FREE for a limited time. Caregivers simply email their paper discharge plans after signing up for the service.
About Care3™
Care3 founders have 30 years of collective experience caring for aging relatives and special needs children. Care3 solves the problem of organizing care tasks, sequencing them for real-time completion and mobilizing so care can be delivered anywhere. Learn more at www.care3.co/blog.
Care3 Presents at AARP Innovation@50+ LivePitch!
DSW AARP LivePitch
It was an honor to be selected to present at the AARP Innovation@50+ LivePitch in Sunnyvale this past Wednesday. Actually performing the one-minute pitch was absolutely amazing!
Standing in front of hundreds of AARP members and getting to present Care3 to them in the exhibit area provided unmatched feedback from people who would use Care3 to help themselves and their loved ones.
Check out the full official event coverage here. Our Care3 one-minute pitch starts at 7:39:03.
Thank you again AARP for this fantastic event and the opportunity to share Care3.
Care3™ Selected as Finalist for AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch Event April 27
Care-sharing Mobile Platform for Family and Home Health Caregivers Chosen as a Finalist Competing at Pitch Event Featuring Digital Health Experts, Investors, and AARP Member Consumers.
Care3™ Selected as Finalist for AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch Event April 27
Care-sharing Mobile Platform for Family and Home Health Caregivers Chosen as a Finalist Competing at Pitch Event Featuring Digital Health Experts, Investors, and AARP Member Consumers
Los Angeles, CA March 31, 2016 – Care3, a leading mobile health technology company enabling team-based caregiving to help people live comfortably in their homes, is pleased today to announce its selection as one of the finalists for AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch, the one day pitch competition for emerging startups in the healthy living space with a focus on caregiving. Selected from more than 200 applicants, Care3 will compete against 13 other startups representing the best in digital health.
“We are honored to present the Care3 platform at the AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch event,” says David Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Care3. “Care3 helps reduce caregiver stress and improves accountability while helping loved ones live independently.”
Care3 will present on stage before a panel of expert judges and an audience filled with AARP members. These members will share feedback in real-time on business viability, interest and value, providing invaluable market data on the spot.
AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch event will be held at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA on April 27, 2016. For more information, go to http://health50.org/. To learn more about AARP, visit http://www.aarp.org.
About Care3™
Founded by three longtime digital health innovators with experience caring for aging parents and special needs children, Care3 has invented “care-sharing” (patent pending), the process of breaking down a care plan into individual steps and sharing those activities on mobile devices as Action Messages™ with a team of family and professional caregivers in the home. The Care3 care-sharing mobile app is free for family caregivers to easily coordinate care anywhere. Learn more at www.care3.co/blog.
Care3™ Launches the First Care-Sharing Mobile Application...
Care3™ Launches the First Care-Sharing Mobile Application that Allows Patient, Family, and Home Care Providers to Share Clinical Care Tasks on the Same Platform
Care3™ Launches the First Care-Sharing Mobile Application That Allows Patient, Family, and Home Care Providers to Share Clinical Care Tasks on the Same Platform
LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) MARCH 14, 2016 - Care3™ pioneers care-sharing, the process of taking a clinical care plan and breaking it down step-by-step into sequenced activities in plain language and sharing those activities as Action Messages™ (patent pending) with family and professional care teams.
“The spirit of care-sharing has always existed. We just created a platform that allows it to be easily done in a HIPAA-compliant manner so family and professionals can collaborate in unison.” said David Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Care3™.
This launch comes after a rigorous four-month beta period in which Care3™ worked with dozens of home & community-based care providers and their client families to refine the care-sharing process so that it meets family expectations, home care business needs, and industry compliance requirements.
Care3™ will be offering demonstrations of the Care3™ care-sharing app on March 14th during the SXSW Interactive conference at Capital Factory (701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701) by invitation only. Please contact SXC3(at)care3(dot)co for more information.
“We’re seeing a massive growth in Health Tech startups in Austin and are excited to welcome Care3 to SXSW Interactive." said Joshua Baer, Executive Director of Capital Factory.
About Care3™: Care3™ is a leading mobile health technology company focusing on creating groundbreaking applications that meet the needs of home and community-based caregivers. The Care3 care-sharing™ mobile app for patients, families, and their care teams makes it easy to coordinate care and assist with activities of daily living on a fully HIPAA-compliant platform. For more information, visit http://www.care3.co/blog.