mHealth startup’s study to evaluate text message coaching to support Medicaid patients gets backing [Video]

Mobile health business Sense Health, which uses text messaging to help coach Medicaid patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions, has secured backing from The Nicholson Foundation for a 1,000 person study with patients from New Jersey-based CompleteCare. Its platform will be used for patients with diabetes and hypertension as well as to boost cervical cancer screening rates, according to a company statement.

The one-year study will assess the company’s technology to improve appointment adherence, disease specific clinical indicators, and healthcare utilization for its patients. The goal will be to assess to return on investment of its technology.

The study will split the patients into two groups — one group will receive standard care management alone and another group will get care management as well as Sense Health’s platform. The company’s technology can be used on smartphones as well as flip phones.

CompleteCare is a federally qualified health center with 20 sites in southern New Jersey. In …