Medical Home Network (MHN), a company that partners with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), announced a collaboration with grocery technology company Instacart to embed Instacart's SNAP eligibility screener on MHN's managed care platform, MHNConnect.
The capability will give care teams at the 80-plus FQHCs that MHN partners with a tool within their workflows to decide SNAP eligibility,...
TPG's The Rise Fund announced it signed definitive documentation to lead a more than $200 million investment into telenutrition platform Foodsmart.
The Rise Fund, TPG’s global impact investing platform, was founded in 2016 by TPG in partnership with U2 frontman Bono and Canadian engineer Jeff Skoll, who was the first president of eBay and is a billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer...
In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch's in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health.
DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical visits, which can be scheduled via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician arrives at the patient's home...
Tech-enabled food delivery company FarmboxRx announced the launch of Feed by FarmboxRx, an application-based program to supply individuals affected by cuts to SNAP benefits with produce and pantry staples.
The program will allow six boxes of produce to be delivered to select individuals each month, along with educational magazines for food preparation recommendations.
Applications for...
Google is combating food insecurity with the launch of its new website called Find Food Support, which includes a Google Map locator tool and destigmatizing online resources.
The tech giant collaborated with No Kid Hungry, FoodFinder and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint 90,000 locations with free food support across the country and has plans to add even more.
Making up the bulk of...
Before we can solve the problems of patient engagement, we have to make sure we’re not the ones creating them. That was one takeaway of Geisinger CIO Karen Murphy’s remarks at the HIMSS Patient Engagement and Experience Summit in Orlando this morning.
“We’re trying to innovate because […] patient engagement and patient experience is truly not ideal,” she said. “We have the system arranged so that...
