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level to serve the evolving needs of
payer and provider clients that manage
the clinical and administrative needs of
millions of lives in the US alone.
The company believes, technology can
be used to exponentially scale the
engagement, monitoring, and day-to-
day care; to coordinate with the most
vulnerable and at-risk populations
(Medicaid, Medicare, and Dual
Eligible). By personalizing intelligent
engagement, making technology
invisible, cost negligible, and
complexity irrelevant, while meeting
patients’ requirements, technologically,
intellectually, culturally, and
emotionally. “An engaged consumer is
a healthier consumer. Engagement is
the block-buster drug of the century,”
says the CEO.
According to VentureBeat, Care Angel
is one of the three most Valuable
Applications of AI in Healthcare,
AI- powered Virtual Nurse Assistants;
estimating the value of virtual nurse
assistants to a whopping $20 billion.
never been proactively cared for due to
lack of human labor resources,
complexity, and costs.
The company believes that in the
not-too distant future, when one leaves
a physician’s office or a hospital setting
and goes home, an intelligent
AI-powered Virtual Nurse Assistant,
like Angel, will do all the automated
follow up as an extension of the
existing care teams to help one to be
healthy and informed, and connected to
care, while family members and
clinical care managers are alerted when
there is an issue or a need, catching
small issues before they become
hospitalizations. The exponential
capacity is enormous.
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Transforming Healthcare
Engagement
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The company believes access to
quality healthcare is a right all should
have. Care Angel’s mission is to
empower millions to take better care.
The company was established after
putting together a decade worth of
experience in applying telehealth
technologies; to make care more
accessible, affordable, and available for
basic episodic and chronic care.
“Post-acute episodic care accounts for
only about 15 percent of healthcare
costs, the remaining 85 percent of costs
are attributed to chronic care,” asserts
the CEO of Care Angel. Here lies Care
Angel’s ultimate challenge −to apply
the momentum and principles of
remote care to ten times the
populations that have traditionally
The Enthusiastic Promoter of Care
Angel
Wolf Shlagman is the CEO, Founder,
and Chief Angel of Care Angel. He is
a creative technologist, tinkerer, and
visionary behind the success of the
company. He has a long history of
using technology to create solutions
that make several aspects of life more
accessible, convenient, cost effective,
efficient, and consumer friendly. As a
serial entrepreneur, Wolf previously
founded ‘Consult a Doctor’ in 2007,
one of the earliest pioneers of B2B2C
telemedicine platforms, which was
acquired by Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE:
TDOC), a Kleiner, Perkins portfolio
company, in 2013 and the combined
companies were taken public shortly
thereafter.
As an innovator, Wolf has been
shaping and transforming the telehealth
space since the earliest days of digital
health, nearly 20 years ago. He is a
technological and business leader with
executive level strategic, technical, and
partnership development experience.
He is recognized as being a hands-on
leader who is driven by passion in the
pursuit of building impactful enterprise
platforms and consumer solutions
targeted to help alleviate the most
pressing challenges affecting the entire
healthcare ecosystem. Care Angel is
especially meaningful, as it will help to
care for millions who lack access, most
notably our parents and grandparents.
A large amount of healthcare costs go
towards managing chronic conditions,
mostly in seniors. Along with this the
high-risk, rising-risk, high cost, and
vulnerable populations around the
world, is affecting billions of lives.
Understanding this major demographic
shift, Wolf set out to transform how his
mom and people across the globe are
taken care of. Foreseeing the major
void in the market, Wolf was
determined to help the industry and the
people it serves, by applying
technology to take better care of their
conditions, from the comfort of their
homes. But it goes much deeper than
that, because the caregivers, providers
and clinicians are also experiencing
severe burnout due to the shortage of
millions of physicians, care managers,
and nurses around the world. We have