HealthTap and Samsung Well being announced a partnership on Tuesday that may make it simpler for individuals to entry digital major care by means of the Samsung Well being app.
Samsung Well being is a well being and health app by means of the digital gadget firm Samsung. It tracks varied components of wellbeing, together with sleep, train and diet. It has 7 million energetic customers within the U.S. on Android units. By the brand new partnership, HealthTap’s digital major and pressing care help will probably be embedded into the app. Customers will have the ability to full an consumption survey and e book digital visits with a HealthTap physician.
After the go to, they’ll have the ability to evaluation the clinician’s notes and see follow-up directions immediately on the Samsung Well being app. Customers can select to pay with insurance coverage, or pay $79 per go to, which is decrease than HealthTap’s typical $129.
The partnership is HealthTap’s first in-app expertise on a third-party shopper platform.
“This collaboration marks a serious step towards making major care the central hub of individuals’s digital well being expertise,” mentioned Sean Mehra, HealthTap CEO and co-founder, in an electronic mail. “By embedding HealthTap inside Samsung Well being, customers can now join the dots between their each day well being knowledge — like sleep, exercise, and vitals — and their medical care. It transforms care from a one-off occasion right into a steady relationship, enabling proactive and preventive engagement.”
Samsung echoed these feedback.
“We consider easy accessibility to care is foundational – be it physician’s visits or worth transparency for drugs. Shoppers are asking us for actionable data on the proper time to help their well being journey,” mentioned Dr. Ricky Choi, U.S. head of digital well being at Samsung Electronics America, in an announcement. “By making accessible telehealth companies into the Samsung Well being expertise, we’re making care actionable, enabling customers to maneuver from wellness to medical care and again in a trusted setting.”
Mehra added that that is “just the start” within the partnership between Samsung Well being and HealthTap.
“As Samsung Well being continues to develop its ecosystem of units and companions, HealthTap will function the doctor companion that helps interpret knowledge, shut the loop on care, and information individuals towards more healthy lives,” he mentioned. “Our shared imaginative and prescient is to make trusted major care accessible at everybody’s fingertips—inexpensive, steady, and deeply related to their on a regular basis well being.”
This announcement comes shortly after HealthTap launched another collaboration with LillyDirect, Eli Lilly’s digital well being platform. By this partnership, sufferers with Kind 1 and Kind 2 diabetes can entry a HealthTap major care clinician nearly by means of the LillyDirect platform.
There are a number of different corporations that additionally present digital major care, together with Teladoc, MD Dwell and Carbon Well being.
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