Kaiser Permanente members might now entry Headspace Well being’s Ginger as a part of Kaiser’s digital self-care portfolio, offering on-demand, text-based teaching with no referral.
Ginger’s psychological well being and dependancy care choices will embody emotional assist coaches obtainable to all of Kaiser’s eligible grownup members by way of their smartphone 24/7 with no appointment.
“Kaiser Permanente chosen Ginger to assist present nonclinical emotional assist teaching and broaden the continuum of digital psychological well being instruments we make obtainable for gratis to all eligible grownup members,” Dr. Don Mordecai, psychiatrist and nationwide chief for psychological well being and wellness at Kaiser Permanente, mentioned in an announcement.
“The Ginger providing sits between our self-care choices and our scientific care, offering personalised text-based assist from educated Ginger coaches to our members within the second once they want it essentially the most, anytime day or evening.”
Ginger is the most recent addition to Kaiser’s digital self-care choices. In 2020, the corporate added the primary two apps to its portfolio: Calm, a device for mindfulness meditation, and myStrength, designed to enhance individuals’s well-being and improve sleep or temper.
Digital oncology platform Jasper Well being and Scripps Analysis introduced a long-term partnership to advance the physique of literature on bettering the lives and outcomes of most cancers sufferers.
The analysis will concentrate on biometrics information’s function in most cancers and the way digital and human-led most cancers care navigation and assist can have an effect on the standard of life and longitudinal affected person outcomes.
Scripps Analysis Digital Trials Middle scientists will apply their informatics and machine studying experience to carry out analyses on de-identified affected person information.
“We’re delighted to accomplice with Jasper Well being to additional our collective understanding of how multimodal information assortment can help in affected person assist and improved outcomes,” Katie Baca-Motes, senior director of strategic initiatives on the Scripps Analysis Digital Trials Middle, mentioned in an announcement.
With the assistance of Zipline, an immediate logistics and supply firm, Intermountain Healthcare sufferers can now obtain drone deliveries of prescriptions and medical merchandise, together with over-the-counter medicines, within the Salt Lake Valley space.
The partnership will assist Zipline’s Utah supply system broaden, ultimately being able to delivering to multiple million individuals over the following 5 years with its totally electrical, autonomous aircrafts.
“This partnership permits us to achieve sufferers quicker than we ever thought attainable, at a time that is handy for them,” Gordon Slade, affiliate vice chairman of provide chain logistics at Intermountain Healthcare, mentioned in an announcement.
“Mixed with our telehealth providers like Join Care, it is attainable to just about see a health care provider and get medicine you want delivered from Zipline, with out having to journey to a clinic or the hospital.”
Over time, the businesses anticipate increasing past the Salt Lake Valley space to serve different areas in Utah.
BeMe Well being, a psychological well being firm with choices designed for teenagers, introduced the launch of tailor-made content material for Spanish-speaking teenagers.
The providing is aimed to assist teenagers handle or establish stress, cope with environmental stressors, navigate life transitions, enhance their temper, deal with first-generation stresses and rejoice their tradition.
The corporate additionally introduced a collaborative effort between BeMe and the California Well being Care Basis to ship culturally acceptable digital assist to Hispanic youth nationwide.
“BeMe’s digital well being software affords entry to much-needed providers, significantly for Latino/x youth, who usually tend to want psychological well being providers and fewer more likely to obtain them. Within the face of a worsening psychological well being disaster, we’re dedicated to partnering with corporations like BeMe to bolster the supply of those very important providers to youth enrolled in Medicaid,” Ella Schwartz, senior program funding officer on the California Well being Care Basis, mentioned in an announcement.
