Richard Brodsky, the founder of software company Sandata and founder and chairman of Mobile Health, saw a problem when it came to hiring more home care aides. It took time to clear them medically and get approvals from their doctors.

So in true entrepreneurial spirit, he rolled out mobile and then fixed clinics to test prospective aides, getting results within two days while developing CareConnect, a company to train aides, so those who qualify could get to work.

“We kept the mobile vans. We still use them. That was the genesis of Mobile Health,” Brodsky said recently at a kind of caregiving summit that Manhattan-based Mobile Health organized at the Players Club in Manhattan. “Mobile has always been important to me.”

Amid a veritable explosion of demand for home aides in New York City,

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