Matchmaker for patients and services lands cash from TreeHouse
A startup aiming to match patients with helpful information on improving
their own health has landed $100,000 from TreeHouse Health, a health care
innovation center.
ProValens is led by meizi evolution Rick Tanler, who founded the company
like a for-profit arm of the nonprofit Mill City Innovation & Collaboration
Center.
The company is developing tools health systems can use to connect
caregivers with appropriate resources. For example, we've got the technology may
refer a diabetes patient who must slim down to some YMCA.
ProValens will
begin by targeting those who are caring for dementia patients, Tanler said. Its
flagship application will use an algorithm developed by the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing to identify resources based on caregivers' responses
to some questionnaire.
The concept would be to give health systems an
efficient way to recommend appropriate services to patients, Tanler
said.
Mill City Innovation & Collaboration Center opened around the same
time as TreeHouse Health, which is a for-profit group. The organization was
housed in the Mill City Clinic, next door zi xiu tang bee pollen capsules from the Guthrie Theater. It now
intends to relocate to a larger space elsewhere in the Twin Cities, though
Tanler declined to reveal the new site.
TreeHouse has committed to five
startups housed at is Minneapolis center because the facility opened in May
2013.
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