Kaiser Permanente members can now access Headspace Health’s Ginger as part of Kaiser’s digital self-care portfolio, offering on-demand, text-based coaching without a referral.
Ginger’s mental health and addictions care offerings will include emotional support coaches available to all eligible adult Kaiser members via their smartphone 24/7 without an appointment.
“Kaiser Permanente has selected Ginger to help provide non-clinical emotional support coaching and expand the continuum of digital mental health tools that we make freely available to all eligible adult members,” said Dr. Don Mordecai. , psychiatrist and national head of mental health and wellbeing at Kaiser. Permanent, said in a statement.
“The Ginger offering sits between our self-care offerings and our clinical care, providing personalized text-based support from trained Ginger coaches to our members when they need it most, any time of the day or night. night.”
Ginger is the latest addition to Kaiser’s digital self-care offerings. In 2020, the company added the first two applications to its portfolio: calma mindfulness meditation tool, and myStrength, designed to improve people’s well-being and improve sleep or mood.
Digital oncology platform Jasper Health and Scripps Research announced a long-term partnership to advance the body of literature on improving the lives and outcomes of cancer patients.
The research will focus on the role of biometric data in cancer and how digital and human navigation and support in cancer care can affect quality of life and longitudinal patient outcomes.
Scientists at the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center will apply their expertise in computing and machine learning to perform analyzes on anonymized patient data.
“We are thrilled to partner with Jasper Health to deepen our collective understanding of how multimodal data collection can help support patients and improve outcomes,” said Katie Baca-Motes, Senior Director of Initiatives. strategies at the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center. A declaration.
With the help of Zipline, a logistics and instant delivery company, Intermountain Healthcare patients can now receive drone deliveries of prescriptions and medical products, including over-the-counter medications, in the Salt area. Lake Valley.
The partnership will help Zipline’s delivery system in Utah grow, eventually delivering more than one million people over the next five years with its all-electric, self-driving planes.
“This partnership allows us to reach patients faster than we ever thought possible, at a time that suits them,” said Gordon Slade, Associate Vice President of Supply Chain Logistics at Intermountain. Healthcare, in a statement.
“Combined with our telehealth services like Connect Care, it’s possible to see a doctor virtually and have the medications you need delivered by Zipline, without having to travel to a clinic or hospital.”
Over time, the companies plan to expand beyond the Salt Lake Valley region to serve other areas of Utah.
BeMe Health, a mental health company with offerings designed for teens, announced the launch of content tailored for Spanish-speaking teens.
Offer aims to help teens manage or identify stress, cope with environmental stressors, navigate life transitions, improve mood, cope with first generation stressors and celebrate their culture.
The company also announced a collaborative effort between BeMe and the California Health Care Foundation to provide culturally appropriate digital support to Hispanic youth nationwide.
“BeMe’s digital health app provides access to much-needed services, especially for Latino/x youth, who are more likely to need mental health services and less likely to receive them. Faced with a worsening mental health crisis, we are committed to partnering with companies like BeMe to strengthen the delivery of these vital services to young people on Medicaid,” said Ella Schwartz, senior program investment manager at California Health Care Foundation, in a statement.