The digital primary care space just added one more name to the expanding list of virtual providers. This morning Sensely introduced its Virtual Primary Care technology suite. The new system includes a voice-enabled and character-based virtual assistant. Clients can choose to opt into having a virtual assessment tool that helps patients find the right point of care.
Sensely said that it designed...
Newly merged virtual care company Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand is partnering with large employers like Walmart and Target to launch a program aimed at reducing health inequities for Black Americans.
The Black Community Innovation Coalition includes large companies like Best Buy, Medtronic, State Farm and Accenture. The goal is to remove barriers to care and build a care concierge and...
Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand, following their recent merger, announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Included Health, a health concierge platform for the LGBTQ+ community. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The deal will add Included Health’s LGBTQ+ care navigation services – which include assistance for finding physical and behavioral healthcare,...
Telehealth provider Doctor on Demand announced its plans to merge with clinical navigation platform Grand Rounds to form a new integrated virtual health company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies have shared that it is expected to close in the first half of 2021.
This news comes less than a year after Grand Rounds landed a whopping $175 million in funding to fuel ...
This morning, clinical-navigation platform Grand Rounds announced a whopping $175 million investment round led by the Carlyle Group. This brings the company’s total funding pot to over $270 million.
WHAT IT DOES
The California-based company was founded in 2011 and started out as a second opinions site, but then pivoted to the health navigation space.
Today the company makes deals with employers...
Walmart’s 2020 healthcare plan for its retail associates will have some new features courtesy of partnerships with digital and remote health companies.
For starters, those in the Northwest Arkansas, Orlando/Tampa and Dallas/Fort Worth areas will be provided with a “Featured Providers” tool driven by healthcare data firm Embold Health. With this, associates will receive suggestions for local,...
Solera Health has tapped Dr. Andrey Ostovsky to fill the role as next chief medical officer and vice president of behavioral health. Ostovsky previously served as the chief medical officer of the US Medicaid Program.
“Over the past 12 months I’ve witnessed firsthand Solera’s incredible growth trajectory and the market’s validation of the company’s integrated network,” Ostrovsky said in a...
MobiHealthNews spent the last week at the HIMSS18 annual global conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can see all our HIMSS coverage on our website, but we don't always have time to write all the news from the show. Read on for some additional comments, case studies, and launches from the show.
Jonathan Bush says digital can save hospitals from becoming Blockbusters
Well-established health...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has tapped Grand Rounds – a digital health company that performs a number of medical matchmaking services like connecting consumers and employers to match patients with specialist doctors, or facilitating meetings for second opinions – to extend the reach of their remote consultations and access to in-person visits. According to a survey by Grand Rounds, 28 percent of...
NewYork-Presbyterian has revealed a pair of new telemedicine options for psychiatric and express care services that build out its existing NYP OnDemand telehealth suite.
NYP went live with Express Care at its Columbia University Medical Center, which replaces in-person encounters with a video visit to slash admission-to-discharge times from an average 2.5 hours to 31 minutes, according to NYP...
