The collaboration, dubbed Vivre Health, comes amid significant and growing interest in telehealth services, not just from healthcare providers but also for Cox and other telecommunications companies.
Cleveland Clinic will offer its expertise to Atlanta-based Cox in identifying suitable services, ranging from video consultations, monitoring patients recovering from surgeries and the use of home medical equipment, officials said.
Cox simultaneously said it made an undisclosed investment in Ohio-based startup HealthSpot, which makes kiosks with telehealth capabilities in retail spaces like pharmacies. Taken together, the investment and collaboration represent a sizable jump into the telehealth space for Cox.
“Home health is an area that will see tremendous growth over time,” Asheesh Saksena, chief strategy officer for Cox Communications, told Reuters. “It will require more and more broadband capability.”
Cox is likely not alone, Reuters notes, with cable companies sensing an opportunity in healthcare that can perhaps offset traditional television offerings. Cox provides internet and similar services to hospitals already. Healthcare accounts for about 10 percent of its 6 million customers.
The joint effort between Cleveland Clinic and Cox will be located in Atlanta.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Dan Verel
Quelle/Source: MedCity News, 19.02.2015
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