Daniel from Improve Press
Intermountain Healthcare and digital specialty care firm Story Well being introduced a strategic partnership to permit the well being system’s sufferers with coronary heart failure to entry care exterior the clinic.
Calif.-based Story Well being provides telehealth, well being coaches, AI and related gadgets to deal with sufferers with coronary heart failure at residence. It additionally lets medical doctors entry affected person information and obtain personalised suggestions based mostly on a doctor’s historic prescribing patterns.
As a part of the partnership, Intermountain clinicians and the well being tech firm’s coaches will collaborate to offer personalised remedy to sufferers and monitor remedy entry and adherence between visits.
The coaches will act because the go-between for sufferers and their suppliers, monitoring affected person progress and answering questions by way of textual content, e-mail or name.
“Sufferers have lengthy journeys with their well being, and a big a part of that journey takes place after they go away the clinician’s workplace,” Tom Stanis, CEO and cofounder of Story Well being, stated in a press release. “Our resolution combines the newest AI-integrated digital well being report expertise with actual well being coaches to straight establish and deal with essentially the most disruptive limitations to a disconnected affected person journey. Story Well being is happy to be partnering with Intermountain to rework steady take care of sufferers.”
THE LARGER TREND
Story Well being obtained $22.6 million in Collection A funding final yr, which the corporate stated it might use to increase its attain into the cardiology house. The funding got here after the corporate launched with a $4 million seed funding spherical in late 2020.
In October, Intermountain Healthcare introduced a partnership with autonomous drone supply firm Zipline to ship prescriptions and medical merchandise to sufferers within the Salt Lake Valley space of Utah.
