As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change the healthcare landscape for consumers, MobiHealthNews caught up with Buoy Health CEO Andrew Le, who has been working on some of the trickiest health navigation challenges for years.
Le discusses what his company has been up to over the last year, the consumerization of healthcare, and the brick-and-mortar versus the virtual care divide. ...
Buoy Health, a Boston-based company best known for its AI triage chatbot, is turning to the vaccine distribution space with the rollout of a new tool that helps employers gauge their workforce’s interest in the COVID-19 vaccine and design educational strategies around inoculation.
Employers will be able to tap into the new tool and reporting dashboard via Buoy’s Back With Care and digital...
Following up on its $28 million add-on investment from May, Carbon Health today announced the close of a $100 million Series C funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The tech-enabled primary care provider's raise also included support from Brookfield Technology Partners, DCVC and Builders VC.
Carbon Health's approach blends in-person visits at a clinic or pop-up site with virtual care...
More digital health tools join the PBM party. Evernorth, a newly-established Cigna subsidiary that now acts as the parent of Express Scripts, announced today several new additions to the pharmacy benefit manager's Digital Health Formulary. Joining the lineup in 2021 will be:
Wildflower Health's app-based women's health offering.
Quit Genius's digital program for smoking and vaping cessation....
With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases growing by the day, healthcare stakeholders are continuing to search for tools and medications to help stem the tide.
We have seen the digital health community release a slew of new tools aiming to monitor the spread of the disease and facilitate better treatment. And it sounds as if there's still more to come, as just this morning CNBC reported that tech...
Cognoa has entered a new partnership with Autism Learning Partners (ALP) that will provide parents with the Cognoa for Child Development app. The tool helps parents log their child’s developmental progress and offers personalized activity suggestions to help support their growth. ALP providers, meanwhile, can review the logs for evidence of autism spectrum disorder to better inform their care and...
It’s hard to flip on the TV and not see some mention of the novel coronavirus. The number of cases reported has continued to rise daily, as the World Health Organization reports that the virus has spread to 25,000 individuals across 25 countries.
However, a biproduct of the disease has been fear, according to Buoy Health Founder and CEO Dr. Andrew Le.
Increasingly startups and innovators are...
While the default in amateur diagnostics has become a quick Google search, increasingly innovators are looking to curb potential health misinformation pitfalls. New research published last week by JAMA found that Buoy Health's free chatbot helped decrease the rate of uncertainty among patients.
The study also found that patients using the platform were more likely to decrease their intended...
Healthcare has long had an access issue. While some patients might have the knowledge, experience and opportunity to pursue optimal care when they’re ill, countless others are unaware of the whens, whys and hows of seeking and receiving relief for their condition.
“Access is really key. That can be access to an appointment to a provider [and] it’s also access to quality information,” Dr. Erin...
Thanks to some new strategic agreements, online healthcare chatbot Buoy Health’s Corporate Health and Benefits program will now include specialized knowledge and services support from five new partners. Specifically, Workit Health will be providing addiction treatment support, Hinge Health will help users manage chronic pain, LetsGetChecked will assist general self-testing, Healthcare Bluebook ...
