SeeChange's social-behavioral economics platform will help propel Doctor On Demand's convenient, low-cost healthcare option
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — SeeChange Health, a leader in clinically driven health improvement as an enterprise service, announced today that it is integrating Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians via smartphones, tablets or desktop computers, into its FlyWheel health improvement platform.
Employers will now easily be able to offer the convenient and affordable Doctor On Demand telemedicine service to their members with a single sign on through the FlyWheel portal. Together, the solutions can help employers improve utilization rates for telemedicine using a powerful social-behavioral economics engine, which engages people to choose the most effective, lowest cost healthcare option at the right time through incentives and rewards.
Telemedicine has the potential to deliver more than $6 billion in healthcare savings per year to U.S. companies, according to global analytics company Towers Watson. In a survey of 1,000 U.S. employers, 37 percent said they expect to offer their employees telemedicine consultations by next year as a low-cost alternative to emergency room or physician office visits for nonemergency health issues.
"We are laser-focused on saving money for employers by providing quality medical treatment without the waiting room. Patients love the convenience and ease of Doctor On Demand. With no PEPM and high utilization rates, we reduce health care costs while increasing employee satisfaction," said Adam Jackson, co-founder and CEO, Doctor On Demand. "Our integration with SeeChange Health will further help companies provide their employees with medical treatment that is impactful, efficient, and cost-effective."
SeeChange Health will begin offering the Doctor On Demand service immediately as part of the FlyWheel health improvement platform. Employers will be able to offer the service in a number of customizable ways, with the opportunity to connect the offering to customizable incentives and rewards that promote utilization and drive higher engagement.
"Telemedicine has the potential to do much more than bring convenience and predictable prices for medical services," said Martin Watson, CEO, SeeChange Health. "It can help transform us into a wellness culture by delivering preventive screenings, remote monitoring and ongoing management for chronic care patients. That's why we're thrilled to partner with Doctor on Demand–a fast-growing leader in telemedicine with access to a wide range of healthcare providers–to help bring this benefit to more individuals."
About FlyWheel
FlyWheel is an award-winning health improvement platform used by more than one million members to engage wellness and disease management and lower healthcare costs. Offered to employers, payers and providers as a cloud-based service with a mobile app for consumers, FlyWheel:
- Brings individual health data together, including claims, lab, pharmacy, health and biometric assessments.
- Detects and predicts chronic conditions like diabetes and coronary artery disease using trusted medical guidelines.
- Engages healthy action by recommending preventive care, condition-specific care, and medication adherence actions, and motivates employees to complete them using meaningful, personalized incentives.
- Measures and reports health improvement, so that employers can reward members for healthy behavior together with their benefits plan. By improving their health, employees and organizations lower their healthcare costs.
About SeeChange Health
SeeChange Health is the leader in clinically driven health improvement as an enterprise service. The company has the most advanced and adaptive clinical-behavioral knowledge base to predict and improve health, increasing healthy behavior with tailored rewards based on behavioral economic algorithms. SeeChange Health provides the most advanced and easiest to implement health improvement platform, and unites all health and wellness programs into a single, powerful, integrated solution. The company measures health improvement and quantifies return on health investment with more than one million members, early chronic condition diagnosis, and 50% reduction in hospital readmissions. SeeChange Health serves the Fortune 1000 and regional health plan providers. Learn more at seechangehealthsolutions.com.
About Doctor On Demand
Doctor On Demand is a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians via smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Patients simply download the Doctor On Demand app on a smartphone or tablet or visit www.doctorondemand.com on their desktop computer, provide a list of their symptoms, and are instantly connected to a doctor licensed in their state for a video visit. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers. Entrepreneurs Adam Jackson and Jay McGraw founded the company in 2012 to improve fast, easy, and cost-effective access to high quality medical care. Doctor On Demand is based in San Francisco and has raised $24 million from Venrock, Shasta Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Lerer Ventures, angel investor Sir Richard Branson, and Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush. To learn more, please visit www.doctorondemand.com.
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