Baltimore, Maryland-based Everseat, which offers an app and website that helps patients schedule doctor's appointments, inked a deal with rideshare company Lyft to help people get to their doctor's appointments. After booking an appointment through the Everseat app, users will now be able to add a ride using Lyft or Lyft Plus, which offers larger vehicles, right from the Everseat app. Within the app the user can review the price of a Lyft ride, request the pickup, and track the driver's estimated time of arrival. 

“Access is a complex concept. Everseat is committed to partnering with leading technologies to drive increased efficiency -- and this relationship [with Lyft] is an outstanding example,” Jeff Peres, the CEO and cofounder of Everseat said in a statement.

Everseat also recently added Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as a customer. BIDMC is piloting Everseat's scheduling service in a handful of practices so far: dermatology, orthopaedics, pain management, physical therapy and rehabilitation, Peres told MobiHealthNews in an interview.

While there are a number of health tech companies offering apps to schedule doctor appointments, like ZocDoc and Aetna's iTriage, Peres says his company's offering is distinctive in a number of ways. For starters, the company was founded as a notifications service for patients about last minute openings.

Peres describes Everseat as a service to patients that lets them "digitally raise their hands" when a provider gets a cancellation. Peres says there is always a patient nearby who is eager to get an earlier appointment and willing to make it work with their schedule.

While healthcare appointments are Everseat's primary focus, the company also works with select hair, beauty, and skin businesses in the markets where their healthcare customers operate. Peres and his team believe helping Everseat users book haircuts, manicures and trips to the spa will lead people to use the app more often.

Everseat has raised a total of about $4.5 million to date from its seed round of funding last year, and it has about 22 employees currently. Its angel investors include a number of physicians from around the country as well TEDCO, a seed investment organization created by the state of Maryland to support local entrepreneurs.