Our Mission & Vision

While enrolled at Stanford University in 2010, CareMessage CEO and co-founder, Vineet Singal took a temporary break from school to volunteer at St. Vincent’s Free Clinic in Galveston, Texas after a hurricane had destroyed parts of the city and the need for affordable healthcare skyrocketed. There he discovered a major barrier to providing care was the ability to communicate health information to patients, but it was something a simple text message could actually solve. After graduating from Stanford University in 2012 and dropping out of his medical school acceptance, he set out to solve this need by creating CareMessage.

Cecilia Corral, Vineet's classmate at Stanford, joined soon after as CareMessage's VP of Product and co-founder. Fueled by her personal connection to underserved communities and excited to put her engineering skills to use, she saw an enormous opportunity to build technology solutions responsibly. Cecilia's personal experiences growing up in a low-income immigrant household, which relied on Medicaid and food stamps to make ends meet, gave her unique insights to design products and build technology for communities like the one she grew up in.

Since then, CareMessage has grown to become the largest patient engagement platform for underserved populations in the United States, reaching millions of underserved patients every month, and one of the first tech non-profit organizations with a sustainable business model.

Healthcare, and specifically healthcare technology, in the U.S. continues to leave low-income and communities of color behind. These populations are often times seen as an afterthought or simply as a cash opportunity. The historical inequities these populations have faced, and those that still exist today, continue to drive worse health outcomes, lower life expectancy rates, and an overall reduced quality of life for a very large segment of the U.S. population.

Our work at CareMessage is guided by two key principles: technology and prioritizing patient needs. We are a tech company at heart, and we believe technology can be used to help safety net organizations be more efficient with their time, while also fulfilling the essential needs of their patients. To others, the challenges our patients face might seem insurmountable, but to us these Social Determinants of Health are opportunities to rethink what it means to provide holistic patient care. We continue to innovate alongside our partners to help create a world where all people regardless of income or background achieve equitable health outcomes.