One orchestration layer. Rural health. Clinical workflows. Proven results.
Technology enables, Humanity Heals™
NOVA Connect is the orchestration layer that keeps rural patients and students engaged between visits, by text message, and turns every response into the measures your program reports.
The shift
Health Transformation money arrived fast, and it comes with strings. States must show progress on at least four measures, such as readmissions and chronic disease, or risk clawbacks. Yet most of a rural patient's health happens far from the clinic, between visits nobody sees. Programs that can't reach people between visits can't show what changed.
This is for you if…
You run a state RHTP program. You need tools grantees can deploy this year, and results you can report to CMS.
You lead a rural hospital, network, CIN or ACO with RHTP funding. You need patients to show up, follow up after discharge and stay on track, without adding staff.
You lead a university health program or AHEC. You want to see student wellbeing between visits, or train the next rural workforce on AI-enabled care.
How NOVA Connect works
The NOVA Connect orchestration layer. One layer connects the people, the protocols and the systems:
Patients & students
text message, any phone
NOVA Connect
orchestration layer
protocols · AI model choice · flagging
Care teams & program reports
dashboards · exports · CMS metrics
Reach
People get structured check-ins by text, on any phone, with no app to install.
Understand
AI reads each reply against your clinical or program protocol. You choose the AI model, which helps control cost.
Escalate
Concerning answers are flagged by urgency and routed to the right staff member.
Prove
Dashboards and exportable reports turn engagement into the measures your program reports.
Use cases
Post-discharge follow-up
Rural hospitals, networks
Checks in after discharge; flags warning signs before a readmission.
Fewer no-shows
Clinics, outpatient networks
Prepares patients before visits and confirms attendance.
Chronic condition check-ins
Primary care, CINs, ACOs
Regular text check-ins between visits; early flags.
Student wellbeing check-ins
Universities, student health
Shows staff how students are doing between appointments.
AI-ready workforce training
Universities, AHECs
A live platform for training clinicians on AI-enabled engagement.
Proof
Live on campus
NOVA Connect is providing quick, friendly check-ins for the conditions no one can see, with a real person ready when it matters.
University name withheld pending written approval.
Across VA, DoD, and provincial health system deployments
At one VA hospital in a single year
Down from 30% — a 57% reduction driven by a VA patient monitoring agent
Howard Rosen, CEO
30+ years founding health-tech companies. Presented to the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth. Forbes Business Council member.
Why not…
The 12-week NOVA Connect Demonstration
One population, one protocol, measures agreed up front, and a closing report formatted for your RHTP reporting.
Book a 30-minute Health Transformation briefingThe Clinician Patient Engagement Workbook
20 questions to ask before you fund a patient-engagement tool. Download free — takes 30 seconds to request.