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Carda Health
Carda Health is a New York-based virtual care company that delivers clinically supervised cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation into patients' homes. Patients receive a connected care kit and are matched with a clinical exercise physiologist who monitors their vital signs live during sessions. The company exists to fix a brutal gap in heart and lung care: roughly 90% of eligible patients never complete traditional in-person rehab because of transportation, scheduling, and mobility barriers. Carda now treats tens of thousands of patients a year and works with major health plans and health systems.
Harry DiFrancesco
Harry DiFrancesco is the CEO and co-founder of Carda Health, a New York-based virtual care company rebuilding heart and lung rehabilitation for the home. A philosopher turned coder turned operator, he taught with Teach For America, helped found a school, did business operations at Stripe, and started Carda in 2020 after caring for a parent who could not access prescribed recovery care. He blends human clinicians with AI to remove friction from care delivery, and runs ultramarathons and climbs mountains in his spare time.