Telehealth specialist TytoCare announced a partnership with Prisma Health, South Carolina’s largest healthcare system, that will enable its patients to perform telehealth-guided medical exams through Prisma providers.

Prisma is also using TytoCare for its federally funded post-COVID-19 disaster relief program, offering the device to patients who would benefit from more comprehensive telehealth visits. The health system will also tap into the company’s telehealth services for use in schools, behavioral health, walk-in clinics and senior care.

By integrating TytoCare into Prisma Health’s current virtual care offering, the health system will now be able to diagnose and treat patients remotely with physical examinations during video visits.

TytoCare’s telehealth platform includes exam data sharing capabilities, as well as the ability to conduct live video exams and schedule visits.

Other features include a cloud-based data repository with analytics and built-in guidance technology and machine learning algorithms to ensure accuracy and ease of use for patients and insights for healthcare providers.

“At Prisma Health we’re committed to improving access to quality, convenient, and affordable care to our patients,” Dr. Nick Patel, chief digital officer at Prisma Health, said in a statement. “Through our partnership, we can now reach more patients, decrease costs, and transform the virtual care experience.”

TytoCare’s FDA-cleared handheld examination kit helps users perform physical exams of the heart, skin, ears, throat, abdomen and lungs, as well as to measure blood oxygen levels, heart rate and body temperature.

Through the telehealth platform and handheld examination kit, physicians are able to accumulate the clinical data needed to monitor, diagnose and treat patients, while also helping to avoid unnecessary in-person visits.  

The TytoApp, used for conducting guided exams with the patient’s doctor, is available for the iOS and Android mobile operating systems, while the exam kit includes a device with an exam camera and thermometer, a stethoscope adapter for heart and lung sounds, a tongue depressor adapter for the throat and an otoscope adapter for examining the ears.

“TytoCare is enabling Prisma Health to provide the telehealth experience consumers desire in today’s on-demand world, allowing for more thorough virtual care when it’s most convenient for the patient,” Dedi Gilad, CEO and cofounder of TytoCare, said in a statement. “We look forward to supporting Prisma Health as it continues to expand its current digital health programs.”

TytoCare recently teamed up with Epic to integrate remote monitoring data into patients' records, with an integrated workflow that enables health systems to access TytoCare-generated data in a patient's EHR.

Through this partnership, clinicians are also able to access TytoCare exam data directly within Epic, and the integration also provides for seamless remote patient monitoring. The new integration was developed as a result of a collaboration between TytoCare and University of Miami Health System in June 2020.