Highmark Well being, Google Cloud, League associate to construct ‘digital entrance door’

Google Cloud, well being insurer Highmark Well being and League, a platform that helps healthcare organizations and shopper well being corporations construct digital instruments, introduced a partnership to construct a digital well being platform for Highmark members. 

The My Highmark member portal gives the insurer’s members with what the businesses name a “digital entrance door,” the place they’ll navigate their care, pay payments, consider prices, and obtain digital healthcare, together with digital pressing care.

Members can have entry to digital choices centered on continual circumstances and digital multi-specialty practices, together with major care, behavioral well being, pediatrics and girls’s well being. Third-party packages and a few employer-sponsored profit packages can even be accessible. 

Highmark has 6.8 million members in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New York. Choose members can have entry to the platform starting January 2023. 

THE LARGER TREND

In 2020, Highmark Well being and Google introduced a six-year collaboration to develop the Residing Well being Dynamic Platform, which aimed to make the healthcare expertise much less fragmented for sufferers and reduce the executive burden on suppliers. 

Subsequently, the organizations introduced that Verily and its Onduo continual care subsidiary would be a part of the partnership. Collectively, the businesses would develop and construct scientific validation for digital well being instruments centered on affected person engagement. 

Earlier this 12 months, League and Google Cloud introduced their very own strategic partnership. Below the association, League will leverage Google Cloud’s Healthcare API to create a healthcare shopper expertise platform.  

In October, STAT reported that Pa.-based Highmark would cowl choose prescription digital therapeutics cleared by the FDA.