Nishani Health

Proactive psychiatric care

Help care teams act between appointments.

A proposed care-management platform pairing patient SMS check-ins with a clear follow-up workflow for teams supporting people living with serious mental illness.

Make between-visit follow-up easier to act on.

Our thesis: care teams need a simpler way to gather patient updates between appointments and turn them into timely follow-up. We are focused on people living with serious mental illness who experience repeated psychiatric emergency visits.

The opportunity we see is a connected workflow: hear from the patient, identify what needs review, and make the next action clear to the care team.

Proposed MVP

From patient check-in to care-team follow-up.

  1. Check in by text.

    Patients respond to brief, structured questions between appointments without installing an app.

  2. Bring responses into one review queue.

    Care staff see new responses and missed check-ins together, with context for deciding whom to follow up with.

  3. Assign and track the next step.

    A team member takes ownership and records the follow-up action.

Care-team review queue

Illustrative example

  • New response

    Example member 01 · Feeling steady, refilled medication on time.

  • Check-in not received

    Example member 02 · No response to today's check-in yet.

  • Follow-up assigned

    Example member 03 · Coordinator scheduled an outreach call for Thursday.

Product concept · illustrative data

Built around the organization responsible for follow-up.

Our initial customer is a provider organization carrying financial risk for behavioral health utilization. Care coordinators and case managers would use the platform within their existing teams.

Proposed model: a subscription priced per enrolled member per month, aligning the service with the population the organization manages.

The commercial hypothesis is that an easier follow-up workflow can create value for both care teams and the organizations funding that care. Pricing and economic outcomes remain to be demonstrated.

A focused path to proving value.

The proposed pilot would measure patient check-in participation, care-team use, and whether follow-up actions are completed. Changes in emergency utilization would require a separate evaluation over an appropriate period.

These are planned measurements, not traction.

Built by Wilson Yeh and Arhum Saleem, M.D.

Co-founders

Wilson Yeh

Co-founder · 4th-year medical student

Arhum Saleem, M.D.

Co-founder · Psychiatric resident physician

Let's talk about the opportunity.

Interested in our approach to psychiatric care management? Get in touch with the founders.

Founder contact details coming soon.