Evernorth acquires tech platform Vivid.md to reinforce MDLIVE choices

Insurer Cigna’s well being providers subsidiary Evernorth introduced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it can use to reinforce the digital care choices of its portfolio firm MDLIVE. 

Portland-based Vivid.md presents an automatic affected person consumption and digital care connection platform to enhance effectivity for hybrid care suppliers and sufferers. 

Via Vivid.md’s platform, sufferers enter their signs and background data that suppliers usually acquire throughout an preliminary face-to-face encounter. Clinicians are then supplied with a provisional prognosis and therapy plan for evaluation, which is mechanically entered into the EHR.

MDLIVE is a digital care platform that provides 24/7 entry to healthcare suppliers by way of telephone or video. The corporate supplies pressing care, major care, psychological well being and dermatology providers. 

MDLIVE introduced it can begin providing asynchronous care by its digital pressing care platform in 2024, with plans to increase the software to its continual illness administration and wellness visits over time. 

The corporate stated it can additionally add well being teaching in its digital major care service for sufferers with continual circumstances. 

“We frequently problem ourselves to enhance the well being care expertise, and by integrating these capabilities, we’ll considerably enhance affected person entry to high-quality care, unlock clinicians to spend extra significant time with sufferers and scale back the whole price of care,” Dr. Eric Weil, chief medical officer at MDLIVE, stated in an announcement. “In the end, this can assist sufferers get care sooner and facilitate extra significant patient-provider interactions that enhance well being.”

THE LARGER TREND

Evernorth acquired MDLIVE in 2021, and, shortly after, Cigna announced it could supply entry to enrollees in employee-sponsored well being plans entry to telehealth providers by way of MDLIVE. It additionally launched a virtual-first plan for choose employers.