Heim, a software platform for healthcare in the home, has raised £2.2M Seed round to ease pressure on hospitals.
The round was led by Heal Capital and joined by Form Ventures, Portfolio Ventures and Houghton Street Ventures.
With 13% of NHS beds occupied by people who could be receiving care in the community, Heim Health’s mission is to help more patients be treated at home. Their platform sources and deploys nurses and then support their work with technology that can unlock latent capacity, make home-based healthcare cost effective and reduce pressure on staff.
Heim Health (formerly known as Ally Health) was founded by the team behind Testing For All – the only not-for-profit Covid testing service to emerge during the pandemic, delivering more than 1 million at-home tests.
Heim Health partners with healthcare organisations – both in the private sector and the NHS – to manage the end-to-end delivery of their at-home appointments. Heim sources highly-skilled nurses or other healthcare practitioners who can deliver care – such as blood tests, post-operative assessments, and injections – in a patient’s home, with the company’s API-led platform then enabling this care to be delivered in a resource-efficient and scalable way.
For patients, the tech offers a simple interface where they can book, change or cancel at-home appointments – making it as easy as booking a table at a restaurant. For older people, patients with mobility issues, or those with additional needs, the Heim Health solution removes the stress and obstacles often involved in accessing care, as well as relieving the burden on loved ones by simplifying the process of organising healthcare services.
This £2.2m raise will enable Heim Health to further develop its proprietary assignment algorithms and support a wider range of healthcare services, including furthering its work with the NHS.
Kelly Klifa, Co-Founder and CEO at Heim Health, commented: “For a long time, healthcare was rooted in the community. This brought so many benefits to both patients and practitioners, but in recent decades it’s become completely cost-ineffective to deliver it. Meanwhile, secondary care is becoming increasingly bottlenecked, with waiting lists at an all-time high and discharge delays keeping patients in hospital longer than they need. Our mission with Heim Health is to build the digital infrastructure needed to change this; revitalising community-based care and moving more healthcare from the hospital into the home through scalable modes of delivery.“
Sasha Tory, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer, added: “Our goal is to make scheduling an appointment as simple for patients as booking a table or arranging a parcel delivery. We achieve this by enabling healthcare providers to deliver in-home care efficiently, eliminating the burden of unnecessary handwritten paperwork and logistics management. By relieving practitioners of these pressures, we tap into under-utilised workforce capacity and prevent future strain on the healthcare system.”
By Tech.eu
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