PatientPoint companions with MyHealthTeam to attach sufferers with on-line healthcare communities

PatientPoint, a affected person engagement firm, introduced a partnership with MyHealthTeam, a social community firm. 

The partnership goals to offer sufferers in additional than 35,000 PatientPoint places the prospect to attach with and get assist from different individuals who have the identical power well being issues.

PatientPoint’s ready room and examination room screens function messages that touts  MyHealthTeam’s platform which serves sufferers through a rising community of higher than 60 affected person communities.

When sufferers scan a QR code on PatientPoint’s units, they change into a part of pertinent on-line communities the place they’ll get assist from different sufferers in addition to info to assist information them in managing their healthcare.  

In line with the 2 firms in a five-week pilot program, the partnership witnessed a robust dedication amongst sufferers with weight problems or diabetes.

“Our partnership with MyHealthTeam underscores PatientPoint’s dedication to delivering related assets and knowledge within the important moments when care selections are made,” Mike Collette, founder and chief government officer at PatientPoint, mentioned in a press release.

“This collaboration reinforces our management within the point-of-care house and furthers our objective of empowering higher well being for all. We all know educated, engaged, empowered sufferers make higher selections about their well being, resulting in sufferers residing extra supported, knowledgeable and fulfilled lives as they handle their circumstances.”

Eric Peacock, co-founder and chief government officer of MyHealthTeam famous that with the partnership, sufferers will have the ability to get the care they want from their physician, plus ongoing assist, steering and training they want when they don’t seem to be with their physician.

“By making MyHealthTeam’s affected person communities obtainable by means of PatientPoint’s in depth community of doctor places of work, we will enhance well being outcomes by offering well timed assist and knowledge serving to folks really feel extra linked and knowledgeable earlier than, throughout and after their go to with the physician,” mentioned Peacock.

THE LARGER TREND

In 2021, PatientPoint merged with Consequence Well being creating a brand new platform, PatientPoint Well being Applied sciences, geared toward facilitating patient-clinician communications.

In 2019, PatientPoint joined forces with the American Medical Affiliation (AMA), to assist in the administration of Kind 2 diabetes and heart problems. The tech firms teamed as much as disseminate AMA-developed power illness training and engagement content material through its level of care digital platform.

In 2022, MyHealthTeams created a community for folks with lengthy COVID. The myCOVIDteam software was the results of a partnership between MyHealthTeams and South African payer Discovery. The brand new neighborhood is designed to supply people residing with lengthy COVID foundational info, together with threat information, signs and therapy choices. 

In 2020, MyHealthTeams teamed up with EMD Serono for a brand new info useful resource for sufferers with a number of sclerosis (MS) who’re pregnant or may change into pregnant. 

The software, Household Planning Useful resource Middle, is obtainable inside MyMS group, a part of MyHealthTeam’s social community designed to assist people with MS join to one another. Sufferers use the function to examine frequent myths linked with MS and being pregnant.