Heard at HLTH: The Role of Non-Emergency Medical Transportation to Support Health Equity
Executives from health tech companies who attended HLTH 2025 shared their different approaches to healthcare innovation to address inadequately met care needs.
Executives from health tech companies who attended HLTH 2025 shared their different approaches to healthcare innovation to address inadequately met care needs.
NEMT providers play a key role, providing lifelines by delivering the crucial connection between patients and the care they need. This responsibility becomes even more critical when serving individuals with special needs, such as those with physical disabilities, behavioral health conditions, developmental delays or age-related limitations.
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
Switching to a new transportation management vendor can bring much-needed relief to member populations and plan staff managing the programs. Here are few tips to help make the transition easier.
Highly sophisticated brokers and their transportation provider networks have invested in these improvements that have reshaped the industry
When members have access to reliable, technology-first NEMT solutions, they are three times more likely to show up to appointments.
More health care providers are seeing patients on an outpatient basis, but simply getting to a doctor visit can be a formidable obstacle for those managing physical and developmental disabilities.
About 5.8 million Americans miss or delay their healthcare because they don’t have a ride. It’s time to turn patient transportation from an organizational burden to an asset.
Rideshare startup Lyft will integrate its concierge rides services with Epic’s electronic medical record system. The service allows healthcare providers and other businesses to order rides for their patients.
The deal builds on an collaboration with Lyft announced earlier this year which opened up the company's Care.Wallet application to the rideshare company's healthcare customers.
Specialty risk transfer care coordination company Carisk Partners has selected Uber Health to provide medical transportation to injured workers.
GoRide's 2019 expansion plans include Ohio and Florida, and in 2020, it intends to move into markets in California, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas.
The Philadelphia-based startup plans to use the funding to boost its software capabilities and add employees to its sales, engineering and account management teams.
Users of Solve.Care's Care.Wallet can schedule Lyft rides to medical appointments and pharmacies and then can pay for the ride using their Care.Wallet.
Megan Callahan, who previously held roles with Change Healthcare and McKesson, joins the rideshare company as its first vice president of healthcare.
LogistiCare is a broker of NEMT services and a subsidiary of The Providence Service Corporation, which made an investment in Circulation last year.