If there’s one factor that the continuing COVID-19 disaster has confirmed, it’s that the healthcare system within the U.S. is in drastic want of main transformation. One of the most important points to be highlighted by the pandemic particularly is the iniquity in entry to care, however there are indicators that one of many results of COVID-19 shall be a stepping up of accessibility reform pushed particularly by know-how.
At Disrupt 2021, we’re thrilled to have three friends onstage for a panel dialogue all about how tech firms are working to handle entry gaps in healthcare. From Cityblock Health, we’ll host co-founder and Chief Health Officer Toyin Ajayi; from Carbon Health, co-founder and CEO Eren Bali; and from Forward, CEO and co-founder Adrian Aoun.
Cityblock Health is the primary tech-driven supplier for communities with complicated well being and social wants — bringing higher care to neighborhoods the place it’s wanted most. Cityblock’s purpose is to foster a mannequin of care that meets people the place they’re, delivering extremely customized major care, behavioral healthcare and social providers to its members, with a concentrate on those that entry Medicaid, are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, and others dwelling in lower-income neighborhoods.
Carbon Health has a purpose of constructing good healthcare accessible to all, with same-day appointment reserving, telehealth providers and prescription supply, facilitated via partnerships with a number of the main insurers and payers within the U.S. The firm has taken a central function in vaccine administration in California, and continues to evolve its mannequin of modular healthcare supply to succeed in communities the place major care hasn’t historically been available.
Forward is an AI-based healthcare system combining world-class personal docs with new know-how to allow proactive, data-driven major care. Starting with innovative in-clinic and at-home biometric knowledge measurement, Forward goals to tailor its major care to people in a mix that delivers each scalability and personalization. The firm additionally espouses a direct-to-consumer, subscription-based mannequin of care that it argues avoids a number of the conventional pitfalls of insurance-backed care.
We’re excited to have the ability to dig in to those very totally different approaches to healthcare, that also all share the basic purpose of constructing a higher-quality customary of care out there to extra folks.
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