CareMessage Named the Sole Recipient of TIME’s 2026 Impact in Equality Award, Joining the TIME100 Most Influential Companies List
Honor recognizes CareMessage as the only organization globally to receive TIME's 2026 Impact in Equality Award, affirming the role of technology built for and with low-income populations in advancing health equity.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 30, 2026 –
Low-income Americans live roughly a decade less than their wealthier peers. Today, TIME named CareMessage to its 2026 list of the 100 Most Influential Companies as the sole recipient of the Impact in Equality Award, recognizing the social enterprise's work to close that gap — one text message at a time.
The TIME100 Most Influential Companies list, now in its sixth year, highlights 100 organizations making an extraordinary impact around the world. The Impact in Equality Award is given to a single organization globally each year, and CareMessage is the 2026 recipient — honored for using technology to close gaps in healthcare access for low-income populations across the United States.
“What TIME recognized today is something our partners have known for years: that a text message, sent at the right moment in the right language, can be the difference between a patient who falls through the cracks and one who gets the care they need,” said Vineet Singal, Co-Founder and CEO of CareMessage. “We are building the person who’s in your corner, at scale, for the millions of Americans the rest of healthcare keeps missing.”
A Decade of Reach, Validated by Outcomes
Since its founding in 2012, CareMessage has engaged more than 22 million people across 45 U.S. states and territories, partnering with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Free and Charitable Clinics, and Tribal Health Organizations, the institutions that serve communities too often left behind by mainstream healthcare. CareMessage delivers personalized health education, appointment reminders, and screening outreach in more than 60 languages, meeting patients in the language they speak.
The platform’s impact has been independently evaluated. In a randomized controlled trial led by Stanford University and published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that customized text-message coaching was as effective as human telephone counseling at increasing physical activity. This result affirms what CareMessage’s safety-net partners experience every day: SMS, deployed thoughtfully, can drive meaningful clinical change for low-income patients.
2025 Impact at a Glance
In 2025, CareMessage continued to leverage technology to improve health equity for people from low-income populations. Key results include:
- Six million people messaged
- 90 million messages exchanged in 60+ languages
- More than half of previously disengaged patients reconnected with care
- 5,500 staff hours saved per clinic, per month
CareMessage’s work spans three intervention categories that reflect the organization’s strategic framework: access to care, clinical outcomes, and the social drivers of health.
Scaling Toward 2028
Building on this recognition, CareMessage is scaling its AI-powered Wellness Copilot in 2026, helping providers deliver chronic disease coaching for conditions like diabetes at scale. The expansion is a key lever toward the organization’s goal of measurably improving health equity for five million patients annually by 2028.
“At a time when health inequity remains one of the most urgent challenges of our generation, this honor reminds us why the work matters,” said Cecilia Corral, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CareMessage. “We are on a journey to measurably improve health equity for five million patients annually by 2028. This recognition affirms that technology built for and with low-income populations can drive improved clinical outcomes and it strengthens our resolve to keep closing the gap in who gets access to care.”
A Year of Recognition
The TIME100 honor caps a year of recognition for CareMessage. In January 2025, co-founders Vineet Singal and Cecilia Corral received the Schwab Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The organization also launched the Wellness Copilot for Diabetes and was named to Inc.’s Best in Business list in the Best in Social Good category.
The complete 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Companies list is available online at https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/ and in the upcoming print edition of TIME.
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About CareMessage
CareMessage is a social enterprise and the largest patient engagement platform for low-income populations in the United States. We deliver personalized health education and care coordination through text messaging — reaching patients where they already are, in the language they speak, at the moments that matter most. Unlike technology built for large health systems and adapted down, CareMessage is designed from the ground up for organizations serving low-income, historically marginalized communities.
Founded in 2012, CareMessage has engaged more than 22 million people across 45 states, partnering with FQHCs, free and charitable clinics, and tribal health organizations to produce measurable improvements in health equity. We reinvest revenue into impact rather than shareholder returns, because we believe that market discipline and social mission are not a trade-off. They are the same strategy.
CareMessage has been named to TIME’s 2026 list of the 100 Most Influential Companies as the sole Impact in Equality awardee, recognized at the World Economic Forum with the Schwab Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and named to Inc.’s Best in Business list for Social Good. Learn more about our work at: www.caremessage.org/impact
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