My Health.
Care Community. Simplified.
My Health.
Care Community. Simplified.

JourneyLights brings care, connected. We capture what happens between clinical touchpoints and make it visible and usable to everyone in the circle of care. The context, observations, responsibilities, and decisions that shape care but rarely make it into the record.

American adults live with at least one chronic condition. That is 76.4% of all US adults, and rising. (Ntoumanis et al., JAMA Network Open, 2025 · PMC12007472)
My husband was diagnosed with brain cancer. My father was already very sick with multiple chronic diseases. Suddenly, I had to manage all of it while working full-time and raising my two kids. I read Atul Gawande's Being Mortal after my husband passed in 2019 and learned I was not alone. Millions of families navigate this same reality: confused by medications, overwhelmed by bills, coordinating care across text messages and guesswork, with no single tool designed for any of it.
JourneyLights is my answer to this gap. A platform that consolidates every medication, every care relationship, and every resource into one place, so no patient or caregiver has to carry that burden alone. This is not built from theory, but from experience.

At JourneyLights, we understand that health journeys are difficult and can feel like a lot to carry. We believe no one should have to go through this alone. Staying connected to the people who matter most makes the path easier to navigate. Anyone who brings care becomes a light along the way. The more those lights stay connected, the clearer the path becomes. Keeping them connected is our priority.
JourneyLights exists to make that care more coordinated, more visible, and easier to sustain, so no patient or caregiver carries the burden alone.
Our Principles:
Empathy
Care is personal. We design for the real lives behind every diagnosis.
Experience
We build from lived experience and ongoing input from patients, caregivers, and clinicians, so what we create fits every care setting.
Technology
Technology that connects people and simplifies care, not one that adds to the noise.

Patients and caregivers navigate fragmented health systems, confusing medications, opaque billing, and profound isolation, often without a single tool that streamlines and makes management easier.
US adults are managing multiple chronic conditions.
More than half of all American adults (51.4%) live with two or more chronic conditions, each requiring its own medications, care professionals, and care routines with little coordination between them. (Ntoumanis et al., JAMA Network Open, 2025 · PMC12007472)
caregivers are navigating without structured coordination tools.
Most are managing care through text messages and phone calls, with no shared records, no role assignments, and no consistent visibility into what is actually happening day to day. (AARP / National Alliance for Caregiving, 2020)
of time with a physician is consumed by documentation rather than patient care.
Studies consistently show physicians spend a substantial amount of every clinical encounter on chart review and administrative work. This is taking away from time that belongs to the patient sitting across from them. (Sinsky et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016)
is rising fastest among young adults.
Chronic illnesses are not only an aging population problem. Prevalence of one or more chronic conditions among young adults rose from 52.5% to 59.5% in only a single decade. (Ntoumanis et al., JAMA Network Open, 2025 · PMC12007472) About 1 in 4 (27%) U.S. children currently lives with a chronic condition or special health care need, with long‑term studies showing rates rising over time toward nearly 1 in 3 children. (NSCH, 2023–2024 · HRSA/MCHB; Wisk et al., Academic Pediatrics, 2025)

JourneyLights integrates every dimension of chronic care into a single, community-centered platform built for the person living with illness, the people who care for them, and the care professionals who support them. Together, this forms the care operating system.
Circle of Care
Role-based coordination for everyone in your circle: caregivers, loved ones, and care professionals. Everyone has a role and everyone helps one another.
Medication Hub
Scan medication information for plain-language explanations, interaction awareness, and scheduled reminders, sourced from the FDA's database.
Emergency Care Card
Accessible from the lock screen, it gives first responders quick access to key medical information and alerts the person’s circle of care.
Remote Monitoring
Designed to integrate wearable medical devices. Contextualizes device readings with medications and care events to expose meaningful health trends.
Health Timeline
Designed to pull from major EHR systems via FHIR standards. Every diagnosis, lab, medication, and medical visit in one organized, and customizable view.
Pre-Visit Report
Auto-generated clinical summary delivered to physicians ahead of every appointment, synthesizing medication changes, health trends, and caregiver logs.
Billing Audit
Cross-references the patient's own health record against their bill, finding discrepancies and generating dispute support. Zero upfront cost model.
Peer Community
An anonymous, journey-matched peer network to connect people at similar health stages. , on similar medications, facing similar challenges.
Resource Navigator
Connects patients to healthcare, social services, housing, food, transportation, and home care in moments of highest need.

Our platform is built for everyone in their health journey. Patients, informal caregivers, care professionals, and others who show up to support them, each with their own role, all connected in one place.
Living with chronic illnesses
"I take a lot of medications, and it’s hard to keep track of what’s what."
Our platform gives patients control, clarity, and a voice. Medications explained in plain language. A circle of care where everyone has a role. A record that travels with them. All in one platform.
Supporting someone you care for
" I worry about what I might be missing."
Our platform replaces guesswork with real-time visibility, structured health-tasks, and clinically useful logs, so distance-challenged caregivers can stay present without being physically present. .
Delivering high-quality care
"I spend too much time piecing together information."
Whether you're a clinician, care coordinator, social worker, or community health worker, the right information is rarely all in one place. Medications, benefits, services, caregiver capacity, and patient needs all need to be tracked, and none of it talks to each other. We're designing a platform that brings it together, so you can coordinate care, not just document it.

JourneyLights believes the greatest impact comes from collaboration with health systems, community organizations, researchers, funders, and policymakers who share our commitment to community-centered chronic care. We are actively seeking partners across the care continuum to co-design, pilot, and scale our platform.
Health Systems & Rural Clinics
Pilot partnerships, clinical validation, and EHR integration opportunities for organizations serving the chronic illness population.
Academic & Research Partners
JourneyLights is designed to capture structured, longitudinal care data across the care journey, supporting data integrity, traceability, and real-world evidence generation. We welcome co-investigators, IRB support, and research partnerships on caregiver burden, health literacy, and patient outcomes.
Advocacy & Nonprofit Organizations
Disease-specific advocacy groups, caregiver support organizations, and community health workers who serve our population of patients.
Grants & Impact Investments
Aligned with federal programs supporting innovation in chronic care, caregiver support, rural health access, and health technology development.
Kumiko (Kelly) Newmark, MBA
Founder, JourneyLights
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