DETROIT: An entrepreneur has started a palliative care business. It uses telemedicine both as a way to give primary care staff and specialists palliative care training and as a way to check in on patients from their homes in rural areas where they don’t necessarily have access to hospice care.
The doctor decided to make the move to quit his day job with a hospital system because he didn’t feel that he could deliver the level of care that his patients required at the volume that the health system required. He said he raised $137,000 in a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to lay the groundwork for his new company’s launch. In the next three months he plans to hire a nurse, community health worker, social worker and a chaplain…