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Circulation Chosen as Uber's Preferred Healthcare Platform Partner for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation; Launches Hospital Pilot ProgramsCirculation today launched with the first customizable, patient-centric digital transportation platform that seamlessly integrates with both healthcare systems and Uber's API. This unique integration marks a significant step forward in providing reliable non-emergency medical transportation. Additionally, Circulation has been chosen as the Preferred Healthcare Platform Partner of the Uber Developer Platform. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160927005396/en/ Circulation has launched as Uber's Preferred Healthcare Platform Partner and the nation's only all-in-one healthcare transportation platform with built-in connectivity between hospital information systems and the Uber API. Circulation seamlessly brings together all of the patient and on-demand ride data that medical transportation coordinators need onto a centralized, web-based, secure HIPAA-compliant dashboard. By harnessing the power of data, analytics, and on-demand transportation, Circulation provides a smarter, more affordable way to get patients to/from medical appointments and ensure they get the care they deserve. (Photo: Business Wire) Initially piloting at Boston Children's Hospital, Mercy Health System's three acute-care hospitals and all-inclusive care program for the elderly in Pennsylvania, and Nemours Children's Health System in Wilmington, Delaware, Circulation's service is expected to roll out across six additional states in 2016. "The traditional healthcare transportation model is severely outdated," said John Brownstein, Ph.D., co-founder of Circulation. "Every patient's experience begins and ends with their ride, which is why the integration of Uber and Circulation offers a smart, digital transportation platform for healthcare that customizes rides around patients' specific needs and ensures they get the care they deserve."
HIPAA-compliant to protect patient info By incorporating a deep level of integration with existing healthcare information systems and Uber, Circulation provides patients, caregivers and hospital staff a seamless, superior overall experience. Hospital transportation coordinators can schedule ad manage on-demand rides that are affordable and tailored around patients - all from one convenient interface. Coordinators can update patient information files with transportation scheduling information, ensure physicians, nurses and caregivers are notified when patients arrive for appointments, and receive alerts on Circulation's centralized multi-patient dashboard - all in real-time. "We're very proud of this integration and thrilled to call Circulation our Preferred Healthcare Platform Partner," said Meghan Joyce, East Coast Regional General Manager at Uber. "Circulation is unique in that it seamlessly connects healthcare information systems to a dependable, low-cost, end-to-end platform that simplifies and improves patient transportation logistics. Through Circulation, hospitals now have a viable option for modernizing their non-emergency medical transportation and can easily request an Uber when they need one."
Growing hospital demand "We are confident that Circulation will help us improve access and patient-centered care to acute care and elderly patients across Southeastern Pennsylvania who need help getting to their medical appointments," said Gary Zimmer, Senior Vice President and CEO, Clinically Integrated Network at Mercy Health System. "Unlike other new offerings that are stand-alone systems to dispatch on-demand vehicles, Circulation's platform integrates with our internal systems, as well as with ride providers like Uber. It's much more efficient for our transportation coordinators and allows us to seamlessly orchestrate the ride into the overall patient experience." "There's already much stress and anxiety on the part of families whose young children need regular medical care," said Dr. Michael Docktor, Pediatric Gastroenterologist at Boston Children's Hospital. "With Circulation, we can alleviate the added headaches that come along with traffic and parking challenges in a busy city such as Boston and ensure that parents can focus on their children - not the ride to the hospital." Ed Woomer, LCSW, Administrator, Patient & Family Services at Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware said, "We're excited to be participating in the next evolution of on-demand healthcare transportation with Circulation to provide more reliable, timely and predictable routine healthcare transportation to our young patients and their families. We have an opportunity to make a real difference for children in need of care but who live in rural areas and struggle to make appointments." How it works
According to the Transportation Research Board, up to $3 billion is spent annually by Medicaid on non-emergency medical transportation. It is estimated that 33 percent of non-emergency medical transportation rides are funded inappropriately.
About Circulation Hospitals and other healthcare organizations interested in learning more about Circulation and joining the pilot program, please email [email protected]. For more information on Circulation, visit Circulation.co. For more information on the Uber API integration, go to: https://medium.com/uber-developers.
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