Prior to now month, two main suppliers introduced partnerships with Reimagine Care, a Nashville-based startup centered on offering assist to most cancers sufferers in lively therapy.

Moffitt Most cancers Heart in Tampa partnered with Reimagine on Monday, and Memorial Hermann Well being System, a 17-hospital system based mostly in Houston, expanded its on-demand most cancers care partnership with the startup a month in the past. These partnerships are supposed to make most cancers care extra comfy and accessible for sufferers.

Based in 2020, Reimagine serves as an “extension of the most cancers heart,” based on CEO Dan Nardi. The startup makes use of an AI digital assistant known as Remi, in addition to its personal nurses and superior practitioners skilled in scientific oncology, to offer on-demand digital assist to most cancers sufferers.

“Reimagine Care's program helps handle signs, enhance compliance with oral drugs and supply dietary dietary supplements [social determinants of health] assist, all with the appear and feel of the affected person's major oncology crew,” stated Nardi.

As soon as a most cancers affected person is enrolled within the Reimagine program, they will talk with Remi or textual content the startup's scientific oncology consultants at any time of the day or night time. By giving sufferers the flexibility to shortly textual content a medical knowledgeable after they have issues, Reimagine goals to determine signs earlier – enabling decision earlier than these issues escalate and require a go to to the emergency division, Nardi identified .

He added that Reimagine's 24/7 textual content messaging providing not solely addresses sufferers' bodily signs, but additionally promotes a way of emotional well-being as on-demand care makes sufferers really feel heard and cared for.

Nardi additionally acknowledged that most cancers care has a provide and demand drawback.

“New diagnoses are being made to sufferers extra typically than ever. Folks with most cancers live longer, and but there usually are not sufficient docs to satisfy the advanced and rising wants of those sufferers,” he stated.

Greater than 90% of oncologists report working outdoors of regular hours to satisfy the wants of their sufferers, Nardi famous. Reimagine goals to alleviate these pressures by decreasing work disruptions and enhancing symptom administration whereas sufferers are at house, he stated.

In line with him, Reimagine expands the capability of care groups, offering sufferers with speedy and personalised assist with out overwhelming current workers at their most cancers heart.

When the startup started its partnership with Memorial Hermann in the summertime of final yr, this system was initially solely accessible to sufferers with breast and sarcoma most cancers. Memorial Hermann has now deepened the collaboration and supplied the Reimagine program to sufferers with different stable tumors and malignant hematology, Nardi stated.

Moffitt and Reimagine are at present working collectively to plan this system's launch, scheduled for later this yr. Nardi famous that this partnership will deal with sufferers with all forms of most cancers.

To measure the success of its partnerships, Reimagine tracks metrics associated to affected person engagement, affected person satisfaction, emergency room avoidance and symptom decision, he stated.

Our partnership mannequin places revolutionary, on-demand care straight on the fingertips of sufferers in probably the most troublesome a part of their most cancers journey: the therapy section. By offering them with the assist, solutions and sources they want in minutes from the consolation and security of their house, quite than hours or days in a clinic, we are going to collectively and enhance drastically,” says Nardi. .

Along with Memorial Hermann and Moffitt, Reimagine additionally has partnerships with Colorado College and The Heart for Most cancers & Blood Problems in Texas.

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