Buffalo-based social care platform positioned strongly for new $50B rural health bill

wellconnected's 'allco' platform has been helping social care, healthcare, workforce and higher education partners across the country use automation and data to create collaborative systems.

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Now the growing Buffalo-based startup, which was founded in 2021 by CEO Duane Conners, is preparing for the massive $50 billion federal healthcare bill, which will impose new requirements on states regarding transparency, data and systems change in rural health.

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wellconnected has been supported investors including the University at Buffalo's Innovation Seed Fund, Launch NY and Brown and White Ventures.

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Some examples of the work that's already underway include:

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• The recent statewide agreement with New York State AHEC where wellconnected will modernize education management, workforce tracking, reporting, and community engagement across rural and urban AHEC programs. These centers serve as frontline hubs for health education, community health workers, and workforce certification.
  
  
• The recent expansion of wellconnected’s work in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where ‘allco’ is used as human services coordination platform around rural health and substance abuse, homeless prevention, integrated case management, centralized intake, and reporting.
  
• In Chicago, ‘allco’ has been adopted as an innovative, regionwide Community Information Exchange that supports homeless prevention in coordination with clinical care.

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