Elemeno Health is helping doctors and nurses — those on the front lines of healthcare — prevent America’s third-leading cause of death.
That cause is medical errors. And the main reason for these errors is a broken communication system within the healthcare industry.
Medical knowledge doubles every seventy-three days. Workflows, supplies, medications, and staff members are constantly changing. Yet the time it takes for new knowledge to be incorporated into clinical practice is seventeen years.
Meanwhile, training is disjointed, consisting of hours of classes that no one remembers. Dense policy documents and manuals are buried in binders that are hard to find, let alone digest. And new information is often lost in emails that few even read.
Bottom line: Too much information is being presented at the wrong time in the wrong place in the wrong way.
Elemeno Health has created a solution. It’s developed a user-friendly mobile app that transforms dense, disorganized information into accessible, actionable, bite-sized pieces. With this platform, critical best practices and communications, whether standardized across hospitals or customized for a single department, are delivered quickly to caregivers’ fingertips.
Elemeno has made notable early progress. It’s backed by several professional investors, including SJF Ventures, Sustain VC, Dreamit Ventures, and Y Combinator. And its customers include more than twenty healthcare systems across twelve states.
The company has reached two-and-a-half million dollars in annual-recurring revenue (ARR). And ARR grew more than fifty percent over the last financial year.
Why so much early success? Simple: Elemeno’s platform works.
One intensive-care-unit nurse said, “It is truly the fastest way to access information… sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.” And an emergency-room technician declared, “Elemeno is my 911.”
Using Elemeno, hospitals and healthcare practices have achieved notable improvements, including:
• A 48% reduction in central-line infections.
• A 75% reduction in serious patient harm.
• An 85% reduction in Clostridioides infections.
• A 40% reduction in nurse and staff orientation time.
• A 75% decrease in nurse-educator hours.
• And a 50% reduction in ICU nurse and staff onboarding.
The inspiration for Elemeno came from Founder Arup Roy-Burman’s little sister, Urmila, whose life was cut short by a medical error in the operating room.
After leading ICU teams for more than twenty years, Arup saw patients harmed by preventable errors. In most cases, these errors were made by smart, hard-working staff who couldn’t find the information they needed when they needed it. Something had to change.
In 2018, Elemeno launched as a patient-safety solution. That same year, the company published its first results reducing medical errors.
During Covid, its platform was deployed to five hospitals. And in 2022, existing customers began using Elemeno to support training efforts.
This pushed the company to pivot its focus slightly to address workforce transformation. And now, the new version of Elemeno is ready.
To generate revenue, Elemeno uses a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. And it uses a strategy known as “land and expand.”
Essentially, rather than trying to sign up all of a healthcare organization’s dozens of departments at once, the company will aim to sign up a department or two. This enables the company to shorten its sales cycle, and opens the door for it to expand to other departments throughout the entire practice.