Uber Health

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By  Nathan Eddy 12:55 pm January 8, 2024
Healthcare data analytics company Socially Determined and Uber Health, the ride-hailing company's healthcare arm for patients and providers, are partnering to improve access to food and prescription delivery as well as transportation services by leveraging social determinants of health analytics. Socially Determined offers payers, providers, life sciences organizations and others an analytics...
Person putting a bag of groceries from Uber Eats in a car's trunk
By  Jessica Hagen 10:29 am June 13, 2023
The healthcare arm of transportation company Uber, dubbed Uber Health, announced it is adding grocery and over-the-counter product delivery to its offerings.  Facilitated by Uber Eats, providers and payers can have groceries and over-the-counter items delivered directly to a patient's home. The company touts the offering as simplifying the entire patient journey, from getting patients to medical...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:58 pm April 3, 2023
Uber Health, the healthcare arm of transportation company Uber, announced the launch of an additional offering on its platform that allows users to manage same-day prescription delivery.  Thanks to an integration with ScriptDrop, Uber Health users will be able to manage delivery of their prescription from a pharmacy within their service area and track when their prescription will arrive.  Uber...
A woman wearing a mask delivering medications.
By  Emily Olsen 10:37 am October 26, 2022
Walgreens is partnering with DoorDash and Uber Health to deliver Paxlovid, an oral antiviral therapy for COVID-19, to underserved communities. Through the partnership, eligible patients who live in disadvantaged communities as measured by the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index can receive free delivery for their Paxlovid prescriptions on Walgreens.com or through the Walgreens app.   The...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:53 pm November 30, 2021
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers is partnering with Uber to deliver personal care items like skincare, hair products, sleep aids and condoms to customers via the Uber Eats app. The service is available now in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Miami, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Philadelphia, Seattle, Atlanta and Phoenix, although the companies plan to expand...
Business Insider reporter Blake Dodge moderates a session with Dr. Sree Chaguturu, chief medical officer at CVS/Caremark, and Marcus Osbourne, SVP at Walmart Health
By  Jonah Comstock 02:29 pm October 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that were instituted to help control it have re-shaped every sector, and healthcare is no exception. But it isn’t only traditional providers and payers that have discovered the virtues of virtual care and are now exploring its best use cases. New players that have been entering healthcare over the last few years – including big tech companies and big box...
An older man with a companion at home
By  Emily Olsen 12:58 pm October 18, 2021
Senior assistance company Papa is partnering with Uber Health to provide transportation and decrease social isolation among seniors. Papa offers companions, called Papa Pals, that can help older adults with everyday tasks like shopping or household chores. The collaboration with Uber will allow Papa’s care team to work with Pals and seniors to get rides to medical appointments and other events,...
By  Dave Muoio 02:47 pm September 9, 2020
Bardy Diagnostics, maker of cardiac-monitoring adhesive patches, announced yesterday that Kevin Hykes began serving as the company's president and CEO on August 31. Hykes was formerly the president and CEO of Relievant Medical Systems, Metaventon and Cameron Health. Earlier in his career he spent 16 years at Medtronic. As Bardy Diagnostics' new head, he'll help develop and execute the company's...
By  Mallory Hackett 12:28 pm August 20, 2020
Uber Health announced today it’s expanding to include pharmaceutical delivery through a partnership with on-demand digital-prescription platform NimbleRx. The partnership is beginning in Seattle and Dallas, but Uber said it “plans to grow in the coming months” to include more medication deliveries to those who need it. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. WHY IT MATTERS Due to...
By  MobiHealthNews 03:13 pm January 27, 2020
Healthcare data firm Innovaccer has signed a new agreement with Clinical Pathology Laboratories (part of Sonic Healthcare USA) that will allow physicians to view alerts on and place pending lab orders directly through their EHR. The arrangement will use Innovaccer’s InNote product for point-of-care physician engagement, and be deployed among Sonic Healthcare partner clinics within the Southeast...