DEARhealth

DEARhealth is a Dutch-American healthcare spin-out from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), founded in 2013 by gastroenterologists Daniel Hommes and Eric Esrailian.

DEARhealth
Private
IndustryHealthcare
FoundedLos Angeles, California, United States (2013)[1]
FounderDaniel Hommes
Eric Esrailian[2]
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California; Amsterdam
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United States, The Netherlands
Key people
Daniel Hommes (co-Founder and CEO), Alberto Montilla (CTO), Aria Zand (CPO), Reender Beks (CFO), Katinka de Korte (General Manager Europe)
Websitedearhealth.com

The company develops artificial intelligence-powered, personalized care pathways for chronic care.[3] The platform supports Value Based Health Care and aims to get the best outcomes for patients and providers, optimizing a value quotient (vQ), defined as patient value/provider costs.[4] Treatment areas include inflammatory bowel disease, pain management, liver diseases, ovarian cancer, chronic kidney diseases, low back pain and epilepsy.[5]

History

In 2012 DEARhealth started as a research project at UCLA. In 2013 DEARhealth was founded as a company. In June 2019 DEARhealth announced collaboration outside UCLA with UCB on epilepsy.[6] In July 2019, the company closed a series A funding round led by Philips.[7]

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References
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  3. "Philips leads $6.8M funding round for AI-driven health tech startup". www.beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  4. Esrailian, Eric; Hommes, Daniel W. (2015-03-01). "How Does a Gastroenterologist Show Value?". Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 13 (3): 616–617. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2014.10.024. ISSN 1542-3565. PMID 25445770.
  5. "Philips, Vesalius Biocapital III, Health Innovations invest in DEARhealth, AI health tech start-up". dearhealth.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  6. "UCB and Dearhealth Partner to Improve Care Coordination for Patients with Epilepsy". Healthcare Analytic News. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  7. "Philips, Vesalius Biocapital III, Health Innovations invest in DEARhealth, AI health tech start-up". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
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