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In a rapidly changing value-based care environment, where payments are tied to the quality of care and health outcomes for broad populations, Angel radically improves quality, patient engagement and adherence in the home, between visits, efficiently and effectively without adding clinical resources. It helps physicians address poor patient engagement, poor adherence, and data silos and helps patients overcome technology barriers with its ubiquitous voice-first, omni-channel engagement Care as a Service (CaaS) technology platform. As a result, Angel enables the most effective, efficient, and scalable way to close gaps in care, reduce risk, admissions, readmissions, and significantly improve clinical, HEDIS, HCAHPS, STAR, and financial ROI outcomes by more than ten-fold. ACOs, and APG organizations such as UM Health, Jackson Health, UnitedHealthcare, EliteHealth, and Orange Healthcare, ACO. Speaking of its happy and content clients, Wolf asserts, “Partners love Angel and her ability to scale care exponentially from the 5 percent of their patients to 50 percent plus, freeing up so much clinician time and exponentially impacting clinical and financial outcomes.” Confronting Challenges with Resilience Delivering Outstanding ROI There is extreme pressure on the status-quo of hospitals, health systems, and carriers due to market disruption by external players like Amazon, Apple, JP Morgan Chase, Walmart, and Google. Leading organizations that provide Care Angel to their members and patients include the largest provider and payers in the nation, academic hospitals, and health systems, MSOs, Telemedicine, remote monitoring, and virtual care delivery is a reality. Wolf says, “To a certain extent, initial iterations of telemedicine were very complex and costly, only utilized by military, academic and teaching institutions in a hub and spoke model, utilizing video in order to meet payment guidelines. Utilization was non-existent. In the last 5-7 years, it only successfully penetrated the treatment of low acuity ‘cough and cold’ conditions, which account for about 15 percent of healthcare.” The real gigantic challenge that Care Angel is solving for is how we engage, monitor, and manage vast high-risk and rising-risk populations, otherwise known as population health management (PHM), remote care, disease management, post-acute care, all of which add up to a large percent of healthcare costs, representing trillions of dollars. Chronic condition management, which occurs mostly in seniors who are aging independently at home, low income, and other vulnerable populations dealing with social determinants of healthcare, is the massive burden that the company is targeting to relieve, for its provider and payer clients from around the globe. “We are carefully prioritizing our business approach to execute on The company’s success is very evident from the love it receives in return for its exceptional services to patients and clinicians. Patients’ survey results speak for it: 99% 83% Care Angel easy to use Helped improve my health As easy as speaking with a nurse Helps me stay on track with medications and care plan Helps me follow Dr. instructions between visits Feel more motivated to monitor my health