Department Suicide Prevention for Patients and Providers Funded by NIMH and developed in partnership with leading health systems. Jaspr Health empowers emergency departments to reduce costs and save lives.

After decades of working to implement evidence-based practices in real-world settings, Kelly Koerner, PhD and Linda Dimeff, PhD turned their attention to behavioral health’s most dire problem: the rising rates of suicide. In other ventures, they have used technology to provide real-time training and decision support to clinicians. That success gave rise to the question: Can a virtual guide help emergency departments assess and treat suicidal patients? With funding from NIMH, they set out to answer this question, ultimately launching Jaspr Health to bring innovative solutions to crisis-care settings.

Sonara Health is on a mission to end the opioid epidemic and save lives! Nearly 100,000 people died of an opioid overdose last year, and approximately 12 million Americans misuse opioids. Sonara Health partners with federally regulated opioid treatment programs (OTPs) to help make treatment more accessible than illicit opioids. Sonara is a patent-pending, remote dosing system developed by physicians to establish trust and add assurance to the take-home methadone dosing process. Sonara provides OTPs with the confidence they need to approve more take-home doses responsibly, to improve quality of life for patients and expand treatment accessibility for those who live farther away from clinics. Notable investors in Mark Cuban and First Trust Capital.

Many patients at opioid treatment programs require daily visits, and most of these clinics are not set up to utilize remote treatment options. Sonara, our first product, is a telehealth platform designed to meet the highly specific needs of opioid treatment clinics and their patients. By increasing access to care for patients, financial incentives for clinics, and savings for payors, our platform will revolutionize the delivery of care for opioid use disorder.

Sonara is a medication adherence ecosystem that makes Methadone based treatment for Opioid Use Disorder more accessible and convenient for patients through a patented, tamper-aware medication monitoring system. 

We work with patients and their care teams to deliver a more sustainable treatment, improving patient retention and satisfaction in Opioid Treatment Programs. 

Jaspr Health’s digital platform speeds and standardizes evidence-based care for people in suicide crisis.

Co-designed with suicide science experts, people with lived experience, and leading healthcare systems, Jaspr Health transforms natural wait times into immediate, empowered self-care and support of ED staff to stabilize suicide crises*.

Compared to care-as-usual, Jaspr Health improves patient access to recommended interventions, decreases agitation and distress, improves coping and patient experience.

In the months to come, Sonara Health was formed under Dr. Giles’ philosophy that facilitating humanized, compassionate and trustworthy interactions between OTP patients and providers will lead to greater outcomes and have a noticeable positive impact on the opioid epidemic.