Columbia, Maryland-based hospital system MedStar Health announced it partnered with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to bring acute care services to patients recently discharged from Medstar facilities in Washington D.C.
The partnership will focus on avoiding readmissions and visits, which typically occur 72 hours after discharge.
Denver-based DispatchHealth offers in-home urgent care...
In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch's in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health.
DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical visits, which can be scheduled via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician arrives at the patient's home...
Home-based cancer care platform Reimagine Care announced it is partnering with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to provide virtual-to-home care for oncology patients.
Reimagine Care partners with providers and health plans to coordinate care in the home to avoid unnecessary inpatient visits. Reimagine clinicians can remotely monitor patients, work with oncologists to determine whether...
Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth announced it is partnering with Georgia-based healthcare system Emory Healthcare to provide patients in-home follow-up and high-acuity medical care.
Through DispatchHealth, patients can request an in-home urgent care medical visit via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician is then scheduled to arrive at the patient's home within...
California-based virtual care company Included Health is partnering with Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth to add a virtual-to-in-home care model to its offerings.
Included Health delivers healthcare benefits and insurance navigation services as well as virtual primary care, behavioral health, specialty care and 24/7 urgent care appointments.
DispatchHealth allows patients to...
Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth raised $330 million in funding, with the equity raise led by Optum Ventures. This brings the company's total raise to over $700 million.
New investors Blue Shield of California, Olayan Group, Adams Street Partners, Pegasus Tech Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank joined in funding. Existing investors supported the round, including Humana, Questa...
In-home care provider DispatchHealth scored a whopping $200 million in Series D financing. Tiger Global led the round with participation from Alta Partners, Echo Health Ventures, Humana, Oak HC/FT and Questa Capital.
This investment bumps the company’s valuation to $1.7 billion, making it part of the ever-expanding unicorn club. In June the company closed its $138.5 million Series C funding.
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With Livongo and Teladoc’s merger expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, the two companies recently announced the combined company leadership team, which won’t include Livongo’s CEO, CFO, president or SVP of business development.
Once the merger closes, Zane Burke, the CEO of Livongo, Lee Shapiro, the CFO of Livongo, Jennifer Schneider, the president of Livongo, and Steve Schwartz...
DispatchHealth, an in-home care provider, closed its $135.8 million Series C funding round yesterday.
Optum Ventures led the financing with participation from Alta Partners, Questa Capital, Echo Health Ventures, Oak HC/FT and Humana.
WHAT THEY DO
DispatchHealth is like a mobile urgent care. Patients and their providers can request services by calling in by phone – or via the mobile app or website...
Telehealth vendor MDLive has tapped Dr. Cynthia Zelis as its new chief medical officer. She comes from University Hospitals in Cleveland, where she actually handled the system's rollout of the MDLive's services while serving as VP of ambulatory operations and telehealth. That role tasked her with oversight of more than 50 ambulatory health centers and all of the system's telehealth efforts.
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