Heim Health, a software platform powering at-home healthcare, has raised a 拢2.2 million seed round.聽
The firm aims to revive community-based healthcare through a tech-led, scalable model of delivery – easing pressure on hospitals and delivering better experiences for patients.聽
The round was led by Heal Capital and joined by Form Ventures, Portfolio Ventures and Houghton Street Ventures.聽
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 a million at-home tests.聽
Testing For All founders Kelly Klifa and James Monico have teamed up with Sasha Tory, former head of partnerships at Qured, to launch the new venture.聽
Heim Health partners with healthcare organisations – both in the private sector and the NHS –聽 to manage the end-to-end delivery of their at-home appointments. It sources highly-skilled nurses or other healthcare practitioners who can deliver care – such as blood tests, post-operative assessments, and injections – in a patient鈥檚 home, with the company鈥檚 API-led platform then enabling this care to be delivered in a resource-efficient and scalable way.聽
On behalf of their healthcare partners, the Heim Health platform sources the right healthcare practitioner for each clinical task based on qualifications, skills and geographical location. This means healthcare organisations can connect patients with mobile nurses on demand and at the click of a button.聽聽
The platform then uses 鈥榣ast mile鈥� delivery-inspired algorithms to optimise the practitioner鈥檚 route and schedule, reducing time spent on the road and enabling more patients to be seen within a shift. The Heim Health platform also makes sure any equipment needed for the appointment is delivered ahead of time. The founders believe this approach will unlock a major new source of healthcare capacity – revolutionising how much care can be delivered at home.聽
The platform is already partnering with a wide range of primary health care providers, including Numan, Manual, Thriva, Ted鈥檚 Health, Nationwide Pathology, Optimale, Selph, and Bioniq, amongst others, to optimise their at-home care services, harness latent capacity, and reduce any unnecessary time spent in hospital.
鈥淔or a long time, healthcare was rooted in the community. This brought so many benefits to both patients and practitioners, but in recent decades it鈥檚 become completely cost-ineffective to deliver it,鈥� said Klifa.聽
鈥淢eanwhile, 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.鈥�
Sasha Tory, co-founder and chief growth officer, added: 鈥淥ur goal is to make scheduling an appointment as simple for patients as booking a table or arranging a parcel delivery.聽
鈥淲e 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.鈥�
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