Care3 News & Events

Care3 12/18/17 Care3 12/18/17

What an Amazing 2017! Thank you!

It's been an amazing 2017 for Care3. We have expanded product features, built business partnerships, gained outstanding innovation recognition, and most importantly, helped bring better care and communications to families. Thank you for supporting Care3 and our mission to bring healthcare equality to the world through collaborative technology.

Selected 2017 Product Features

Care Planning: Action Planning by Care Discipline for PACE and other collaborative care programs
Mobile App: Espanol! All Care3 apps are available in Spanish language
Mobile App: New Onboarding Screens help users learn the features and functions of the app faster

Business Partnerships

National PACE Association Conference Keynote Sponsorship - A picture says a thousand words--to about a thousand people....

Recognition

Dec 11, 2017

HealthXL & AARP - New Models of Care Report - Care3 featured "Company to Watch in Aging Space"

Enabling Connected & Independent Living Through New Care Models

Oct 25, 2017

Insights Success Magazine - Care3 Award Recipient

The 10 Fastest Growing Healthcare Communications Solutions Companies 2017

Apr 10, 2017

Healthcare Tech Outlook Magazine - Care3 Award Recipient

The 10 Most Promising Healthcare Communications Provider Companies 2017

Growth

Care3 now has more than 2,500 users throughout the United States! More than 25,000 care actions have been shared on the platform. Thank you for caring for your loved one as a team. It makes things so much easier and reduces stress. Everyone appreciates!

Thanks again for an amazing 2017. We're energized to make 2018 bigger and better for everyone needing care to remain at their highest level. Happy Holidays and see you in the new year!

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Care3 Featured on AMC Channel's Newswatch Show

If you're one of the 95 million people who watch AMC, you may have seen Care3 today. Newswatch featured Care3 on its Appwatch segment to share how people can care for their families and keep everyone on the same page. Check out the video!

Care3 - Staying on the Same Page of Health History | NewsWatch Review from NewsWatch Television on Vimeo. Download Care3 now! Your loved ones deserve the best care you and your family can give.

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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/.

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The Time Is Now to Invest in Digital Health for Underserved Groups

By David S. Williams, CEO, Care3. First published on Guest Voices by The Longevity Network 12/14/2016. In the course of raising funds for three different companies, I have talked to many investors: VCs, angels, private equity, all types. When they asked me, why digital health? Why was I building this? My answer over the years has been consistent. I want to create technology for people who typically don't have technology built for them—people of color, seniors, the poor, the disabled. These are the people who need the most help.

All too often the response was something like this:

As a startup you need to build technology for rich people, because they can afford to be early adopters.

Each time I heard that, I got a pit in my stomach. I kept asking myself, do all investors think this way? Thankfully, they all do not, but in my experience, the majority of investors believe the path to startup success is through the affluent.

Technology is supposed to help people who can most benefit from it. Technology is supposed to improve productivity and increase quality of life. In healthcare, the people who need higher productivity and better quality of life, are the underserved—people of color, seniors, the disabled and the poor. Those who don't have access to high quality care, don't have the best health outcomes. Those are the people who should get technology targeted for them.

Unfortunately, the unwritten rule in Silicon Valley is to create technology for rich people. Call it trickle-down technology, and the investment culture is built on that premise.

My personal experience has been in caregiving for my mother. She almost died having me. As far back as I remember, I always helped my mother take care of herself. She was a highly successful woman, earning a doctorate, two master's degrees, Ivy League undergraduate and was valedictorian of her high school class. For all of her success, she had health challenges that worsened dramatically as she aged. I cared for her for 10 years prior to her passing, 2.5 of which she lived with me and my family. There wasn't technology built for my mom as she aged. There were no digital health apps built for me as a caregiver, to coordinate her care and interact directly and confidentially with her professional care teams.

What I've also learned as a parent of a special needs child is that there is very little coordination of care services, and even fewer technology options that actually help people who are disabled to get the best outcomes, to get the best education, to get the best attention on their lives, even though they're the ones who can most benefit from it. I’m not talking about durable medical equipment. I’m talking about digital health solutions, driven by the massive proliferation of mobile technology throughout the world. Until recently, the people who need the technology most, especially in healthcare, have not had access to it. And that's wrong.

This is the first time in history, in which the people who can most benefit from digital health technology, especially the poor and disabled, those who are most vulnerable, have the ability to get tools and solutions in their hands, because of mobile smart devices. The proliferation of wireless broadband and the ability to drive content and applications to a mobile device are now ever-present. The penetration of these devices into people's homes, even at lower income levels, has reached a point of saturation, in which there's no excuse to say that people cannot get access to these types of apps. It's clear that the Digital Divide is becoming an archaic concept.

The “Digital Divide” is no longer an excuse to ignore investing in solutions for the underserved.

Look at recent data from Pew Internet: 77% plus, of households under $30,000 have mobile phones, of which half are smart technology, and that was as of two years ago. We're at the point now, where the populations who have the technology in hand, need only the content and the knowledge to realize the promise of technology on their lives.

And here's the most important development in the quest to serve the most vulnerable with digital health technology solutions: there are massive financial incentives to distribute these solutions to underserved populations for those taking risk for their care. In other words, the buyers for this mobile technology and digital health apps are not the patients and families who may not have the financial means to buy directly, but the entities who benefit financially from their patients’ continued health.

The technology buyers are the payers and providers with incentive to reduce hospital readmissions and avoidable emergency department visits. They gain the most financially. So now you have a financial buyer with a vulnerable and expensive population coupled with the penetration of mobile devices for point-of-care solutions. The power to improve healthcare is literally in the hands of the people who need it most.

Again, this is the first time in history when all of those factors are aligned. It's more than just an opportunity, it's a moral imperative to create technology solutions that help the underserved, that help the people who need it most.

As an African-American man with experience caring for an aging parent and a special needs child, who has the skills of an entrepreneur, who has the background in technology management and development, I take it as a personal responsibility to create technology for people who look like me. To drive new technologies in these communities. If I don’t take on this challenge, who will? This is why I do what I do. This is why our team built Care3. Now is the time to meet the challenge, to create solutions, not for the rich people, but for society's most vulnerable.

About the Author

David S. Williams III is a serial digital health entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Care3, a next generation technology platform inspired by his experience caring for his special needs son and the realization that the most vulnerable members of our society including seniors, people of color, and the disabled 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 disparities. David serves on the Board of Advisors of The Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UCLA. He is a 2013 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. David earned a BS in Economics and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Digital Strategy with a certificate in Corporate Governance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Care3 and USC Family Caregiver Support Center Team Up to Help Families Coordinate Care

(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™ 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.

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Care3 CEO David Williams Honored as Entrepreneur of the Week by The Longevity Network

The Longevity Network (www.longevitynetwork.org) has recognized Care3 co-Founder and CEO, David Williams as Entrepreneur of the Week. The Longevity Network was created to give Investors and Entrepreneurs the resources needed to create breakthrough products, experiences, and business models for health technologies benefitting the 50+ audience. The Longevity Network published an interview with David where he shared his thoughts on healthcare, entrepreneurship, digital health, care coordination, and other topics.

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

LN: How has what happened with Care3 differed from what you imagined would happen with Care3?

DW: Caregivers started using our Action Messages (patent-pending) sooner than we thought. An Action Message is a care task delivered as a text message (or media message) that has accountability attached to it. A caregiver can accept the task, which notifies the Care Team that the task will be done. Once completed, the caregiver can tap the “done” button notifying everyone of completion.

We thought it would take longer for caregivers to adopt this hybrid messaging/tasks behavior but we’re happy to say that we’ve seen a steady increase in Action Message utilization. What this means is that caregivers are sharing more and more care tasks with each other. Action Messages are what makes “care-sharing” possible.

Congratulations, David! Check out the full interview on The Longevity Network website.

Care3 5/7/16 Care3 5/7/16

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."

"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.

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Care3 Presents at AARP Innovation@50+ 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.