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Fruit Street Health on the Democratizing Healthcare website

Fruit Street

About Fruit Street Website Fruit Street is a virtual health solution for the prevention of diabetes. Fruit Street uses the CDC's official National Diabetes Prevention program and delivers that virtually using telehealth. It is a year-long digital program that is facilitated by registered dietitians. The dietitians personalize the digital care for the individual. The personalization is…

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Breathment Digitizing pulmonary rehabilitation on the Democratizing Healthcare website as an example startup

Breathment

About Breathment Website Breathment is digitizing pulmonary rehabilitation for patients suffering from respiratory diseases under the health professionals’ control using the power of AI. It consists of three components: a therapy app for patients to keep track of their individual treatment progress, an AI Trainer for patients to perform their exercises with a digital physiotherapist,…

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SWORD Health from the book “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare” by Michael Ferro and Robin Farmanfarmaian

SWORD Health

About SWORD Health Website Launched in 2015, SWORD Health’s musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions solution is already used by thousands of patients in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. SWORD partners with health plans and employers, and can be used for chronic pain, acute pain, and post-surgical pain. It is a virtual care platform for physical therapy that…

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NELA Cough from the book “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare” by Michael Ferro and Robin Farmanfarmaian

NELA Cough

About NELA Cough Website NELA is a telemedicine platform and device that monitors patients in their home and other residential environments. The monitoring is to help healthcare professionals like physicians with diagnoses and treatments. Specifically, the NELA Cough system uses ambient monitoring to capture and categorize coughs. How It Works Two microphones and…

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Healiom from the book “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare” by Michael Ferro and Robin Farmanfarmaian

Healiom

About Healiom Website Healiom is a startup to watch in the telemedicine specialist space that connects individuals to specialists in minutes 24/7, no matter where they live in the US. This is a big deal because the average national wait time for a physician like a cardiologist or nephrologist is 24 days, which is…

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Headspace Health from the book “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare” by Michael Ferro and Robin Farmanfarmaian

Headspace Health

About Headspace Health Website Headspace Health is a digital behavioral health company. With over $215M of funding, Headspace Health is one of the dominate players in meditation, behavioral health, and inclusivity in behavioral health. Headspace has made a number of acquisitions including Ginger and Shine. Ginger is also covered here and Shine is covered here…

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Carbon Health

Carbon Health

About Carbon Health is a telemedicine and brick-and-mortar chain that covers primary care, urgent care, lab, imaging, wound care, and mental health. Carbon Health is covered by most major insurance plans and Medicare. One of the great things about Carbon Health is the patient experience. They post all their list prices on the website in an…

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