Solera Well being, a expertise firm, has expanded its HALO platform to incorporate digital specialty care, the corporate introduced Wednesday.

Phoenix, Arizona situated Solera Well being is a digital healthcare firm that works with payers and employers to assist members and workers discover options. The brand new HALO platform – that was launched in October — helps clients handle all their contracted level options in a single place, whether or not they’re a part of Solera's community or their very own contracted options. Workers or members also can entry all their advantages by way of one web-based interface, which asks questions to grasp the care they want after which directs them to the proper answer.

The brand new digital specialist care providing on the Halo Platform is supported in collaboration with 09.00 Well being, Vori Well being And Oshi well being. San Diego, California-based 9amHealth offers cardiometabolic look after folks with diabetes, weight problems and co-morbid circumstances. Vori Well being, based mostly in Nashville, Tennessee, helps folks with again or joint ache by way of non-operative care, together with specialist physicians, bodily therapists, well being coaches and nutritionists. New York Metropolis-based Oshi Well being is a digital digestive well being heart that treats gastrointestinal issues.

“In our pursuit of a digital specialty follow, we now have recognized three essential focus areas: cardiometabolic, orthopedic and digestive options. 9amHealth, Oshi and Vori have revolutionary multidisciplinary care fashions that help sufferers holistically,” mentioned Ed Liebowitz, chief product officer of Solera Well being, in an e mail. “They’ve all demonstrated important medical impression and are supported by main physicians delivering evidence-based care.”

Liebowitz added that many of those circumstances are costly and troublesome to deal with.

“It’s notoriously troublesome for people to entry specialists – each due to the excessive price and the scarcity of practitioners in lots of areas,” Liebowitz mentioned. “By offering a digital choice in among the areas the place the necessity is biggest, we’re lowering healthcare challenges whereas dramatically decreasing prices.”

Different corporations in Solera's community which are on the Halo Platform embrace WeightWatchers for weight administration, Sword Well being for musculoskeletal circumstances and Headspace for psychological well being.

By providing digital specialty care companies on the Halo platform, Solera in the end goals to “function an integrator for a damaged, inefficient healthcare system and expertise – creating a brand new entry level Level the continuum of care at a decrease price,” mentioned Liebowitz.

Solera's growth of Halo comes at a time when many employers and payers are experiencing level answer fatigue and struggling to steadiness the multitude of digital well being options out there. Different corporations serving to employers handle level answer fatigue embrace Accolade And Quantum well beingeach of which have a community of various digital healthcare suppliers.

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