Cadence vs Hinge Health (2026)
Both run remote care programs with AI inside a clinical service, for different patients and buyers. Cadence runs chronic care management for older adults at home, in partnership with more than 20 health systems. AI agents monitor daily vitals from connected devices and handle titration, coaching, alert triage, coordination and symptom assessment, with an embedded clinical team. The conditions are hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart failure and COPD. Hinge Health runs a digital musculoskeletal program, sold to employers and health plans as a member benefit. TrueMotion, its own computer vision, tracks movement from a phone or tablet camera and feeds HingeScore, a progress measure. Physical therapists use the data to adjust care plans. Programs cover joint and muscle pain, pelvic health, migraine, and balance and fall prevention. Choose Cadence for chronic disease monitoring run with a health system; choose Hinge Health for joint, muscle and pelvic care bought as an employee benefit.
- You are a health system with older patients managing hypertension, diabetes, heart failure or COPD at home.
- You want cost evidence from a peer reviewed Medicare claims study with a matched comparison group.
- You want a stated regulatory position for the medication software, with its limits written down.
- You buy for employees or plan members with joint, muscle or pelvic pain.
- You want movement measured by the phone camera alongside what members report.
- You want named security attestations: HITRUST CSF r2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Cadence and Hinge Health are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Cadence | Hinge Health |
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| Primary category | Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care | Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Website | cadence.care | hingehealth.com |
Side by Side
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Product updates
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Cadence
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Clinical evidence
Cadence reported an interim result from Hackensack Meridian Health, where more than 6,000 patients are managed at home with connected devices and a Cadence clinical team working under the health system's own protocols.
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Regulatory / FDA
Cadence announced that its HypertensionOS software was selected by the FDA as the second participant in the TEMPO for Digital Health Devices Pilot.
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Hinge Health
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Acquisition / corporate
Hinge Health has acquired Cylinder Health, a virtual-first digestive healthcare company, for $105 million.
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Clinical evidence
Hinge Health announced the publication of a non-randomized controlled trial in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research evaluating its digital exercise therapy among adults aged 65 and older.
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AI enabled chronic care management for older adults, run in partnership with health systems: AI agents monitor daily vitals from connected devices in patients' homes and handle medication titration, lifestyle coaching, alert triage, care coordination and symptom assessment, working with an embedded clinical team for patients with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart failure and COPD. The company reports more than 20 partner health systems, 99 percent of alerts resolved without physician escalation and care team calls answered within five minutes.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Hinge Health runs a digital musculoskeletal program for employers and health plans, delivered through an app and a care team of physical therapists, physicians and health coaches working through its affiliated clinical entities. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as HNGE and is based in San Francisco.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Cadence and Hinge Health work with the EHR?
Cadence clinical staff work inside partner health system workflows and the company describes deep record system integration, and the home page names partner health systems (Montefiore Einstein, Providence, Duke Health, Yale New Haven Health, Rush, Sharp and UC Health among more than 20).
Hinge Health's clinical entities keep their own medical records, as the Notice of Privacy Practices describes, so the question here is exchange with systems outside the program: nothing published shows a member's assessment or progress reaching the record held by their own physician. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Cadence and Hinge Health handle patient data?
In Cadence's case, three data streams need answers: daily readings from connected devices in patients' homes, which accumulate over years in a chronic care program; text and phone conversations between patients and automated agents, including any call audio; and clinical staff access to partner health system records.
The Notice of Privacy Practices says Hinge Health may use health information for training and using machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze and process member content as part of its services, and may use de identified and aggregated data for research and to give customers insight into outcomes. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How much do Cadence and Hinge Health leave to the clinician?
With Cadence, the home page calls the service physician led with safety guardrails, says care team calls are answered within five minutes, and says 99 percent of alerts are resolved without physician escalation; agents handle titration, coaching, triage, coordination and symptom assessment.
In Hinge Health's case, no published rule says what Robin may handle on its own, when it hands a member to a clinician, or what a member reporting an urgent symptom hears. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price. The economics differ: Cadence works through health system partnerships and Medicare payment, and Hinge Health is contracted by an employer or plan. Cadence's home page says 99 percent of alerts are resolved without physician escalation. It does not say what decides that, or how often an alert is closed that should have gone to a physician. Earlier company material put the figure at 55 percent. HypertensionOS is in FDA's TEMPO pilot, which the company says is not clearance. Cadence names no security attestation, and its security page is a vulnerability disclosure policy. Cadence names no model provider or subprocessor. Hinge Health's privacy documents say member information trains its AI. Enso's FDA clearance covers the stimulation device, not Hinge Health's AI. Neither names the record systems it connects to.
Ask Cadence what its 99 percent counts and how wrongly closed alerts are found, and ask Hinge Health when Robin hands a member to a clinician.