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Amwell
Amwell

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Product Description:

Amwell offers a leading digital healthcare enablement platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, insurers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care. Amwell believes that digital healthcare will transform healthcare. The Company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all digital healthcare needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living. With over a decade of experience, Amwell powers digital healthcare solutions for over 2,000 hospitals and 55 health plan partners with over 36,000 employers, covering over 80 million lives. For more information, please visit amwell.com.

About Amwell:

Amwell (previously known as American Well) is a leading digital care delivery platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, insurers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care. Amwell believes that digital care delivery will transform healthcare. The Company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all telehealth needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, behavioral health, as well as chronic care management and healthy living. With over a decade of experience, Amwell powers telehealth solutions for over 240 health systems comprised of 2,000 hospitals and 55 health plan partners with over 36,000 employers, reaching over 80 million lives.

Product Description:

Teladoc Health delivers a fully integrated suite of connected care solutions – including hardware, software, and services – to help hospitals and health systems of all sizes offer state-of-the-art telehealth services to patients. Teladoc Health is much more than a single point solution vendor. We are a strategic partner to hospitals and health systems — applying solutions to help transform care delivery and solve their most pressing issues. We offer expert consultancy services to our clients, bringing best practices learned from thousands of implementations to help accelerate your transformation.  

    

500+ hospitals and health systems have selected Teladoc Health as their trusted partner, based on our commitment to service and clinical excellence, state-of-the-art solutions and purpose-built devices and deep knowledge of healthcare.  

About Teladoc Health:

Teladoc Health delivers a fully integrated suite of connected care solutions – including hardware, software, and services – to help hospitals and health systems of all sizes offer state-of-the-art telehealth services to patients. Teladoc Health is much more than a single point solution vendor. We are a strategic partner to hospitals and health systems — applying solutions to help transform care delivery and solve their most pressing issues. We offer expert consultancy services to our clients, bringing best practices learned from thousands of implementations to help accelerate your transformation.  

 

500+ hospitals and health systems have selected Teladoc Health as their trusted partner, based on our commitment to service and clinical excellence, state-of-the-art solutions and purpose-built devices and deep knowledge of healthcare.  

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The Amwell solution is fully web responsive, with multiple patient access points, thus allowing the same experience to be accessed via any device (laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, etc.). The experience does not require an app download, thereby streamlining the user journey and reducing friction/drop off. What's more, this experience can seamlessly be embedded into your own web-based or native mobile digital experience. Consumers join video visits simply by clicking on a link in an email or text message—no registration or download is required. Alternatively, the solution may be available via a native iOS or Android app if it is embedded into such an app. Amwell's real-time translation in the visit offers an improved experience for non-native speakers. Consumers may enable real-time translations and to translate other participants’ language into their preferred language in captions. Users may also select their spoken language from the list of supported languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German. If translation is enabled by another participant, a pop-up window will appear, prompting the user to select a language. Amwell is working with Globo Language Solutions and offers an Interpreter App that enables 24/7 access to ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified, HIPAA compliant interpreters to enhance care delivery.

Amwell’s intake process mimics that of a brick-and-mortar practice. It begins once the consumer chooses to connect with a provider and collects conditions, medications, allergies, and vitals. Users fill out custom intake information to inform the provider of their reason for visit, medical history, preferred pharmacy, and any additional documentation they would like to share with the provider, including photos. Users quick-select discussion topics from a standard list or write in their own concerns, as well as attach photos, if applicable. In addition, our integration with RPM devices, such as Apple’s HealthKit gives providers instant access to health data through a seamless exchange. The intake process is highly configurable to support the complex use cases and workflows our partners maintain. This includes collecting medical context for the visit, a brief history, and insurance and/or payment information. Intake workflows are tailored to streamline input or be problem-focused to capture the required pertinent data. Once a consumer joins a video visit, a staff member may enter the room to engage with the participant prior to the provider’s arrival, bypassing the need for a separate virtual waiting room. This workflow enables staff to conduct prerequisite evaluations to prepare both the consumer and the provider for the visit. Staff may review intake information, use the chat tool to speak with the participant, take additional notes for the provider, update the participant on provider arrival time, or clear the consumer, letting the provider know the person is ready to be seen.

Converge leverages best-in-class technology from Twilio to provide the most stable and HIPAA-compliant video and audio connectivity in the market. The use of Twilio ensure low-latency video scaling, prioritizing the audio connection, and supports different tools to detect video quality. The core video console functions have been designed to support a quality, intuitive visit experience for all participants. Consumers can toggle their camera and microphone on and off, share their screen, check or change their video and audio outputs, enter and exit full-screen mode, make a phone call during the video visit, obtain support from a customer’s dedicated support page, provide feedback and/or report issues during the video visit, toggle between the default view and grid view, and switch to a phone (audio only) connection if video is not working. The Converge video experience is also optimized to support both two-way visits between a provider and a consumer, as well as multiway video visits.

Converge is accessible to providers via Epic and Cerner so that they may document in the EHR. Providers launch into the visit from the consumer’s record and document directly in the EHR encounter created for the appointment. Within Cerner, at the time of the scheduled appointment, the provider navigates to the consumer’s record and clicks Start Visit to open the Converge SMART app from PowerChart. The visit is launched in a new browser window. Within Epic, at the time of the scheduled appointment, the provider navigates to the consumer record and clicks Start Visit to open the Converge SMART app from Hyperspace, Haiku, or Canto. The visit is launched in a new browser window or a mobile browser, as appropriate. The Visit Preview window enables providers to preview their video feed and toggle their microphone and camera on or off prior to full entry into the visit. Once the clinician is satisfied with their selections, they click Start Visit to be sent into the visit.

Amwell provides seamless, automated, real-time eligibility via HIPAA-standard 270/271 transactions and claims/ERA integration via 837/835 transactions. Both real-time eligibility and claims are facilitated by our integration with select clearinghouse partners. This functionality allows the Amwell platform to present the patient with an accurate cost share (copay or coinsurance amount) during visit intake and submit the claim for the online consultation directly to the insurer. Payment processing is offered through Stripe Payments, a best-in-class card and local payment method processor enabling pre-visit payment method authorization and post-visit copay collection. Electronic prescribing in Converge is made possible through our integration with DrFirst, a best-of-breed electronic prescribing solution. Amwell has developed a comprehensive integration with DrFirst in Converge, thus creating the most accurate and intelligent pharmacy services supported through telehealth consultations. All documentation workflows (orders, labs, referrals, etc.) are maintained within existing channels if using scheduled visits in the EHR.

Amwell end user helpdesk is available 24/7/365 and is included in the contract price. Customer support representatives provide Level 1 phone and email support directly to end users or may serve as a Level 2 escalation point to the operator's Level 1 customer support or helpdesk depending on contracting arrangements. All customer service representatives are located within the United States. If we are providing Level 1 customer support, our customer service representatives will be able to guide end users through the troubleshooting process to resolve the issue at hand. Alternatively, we can provide training to a client's customer service representatives if the client decides to provide its own Level 1 support to end users. Customer support is currently available via email and phone, with plans to expand support to additional channels within the next year. Additionally, a help page is accessible to consumers in the visit console browser footer. This page includes a list of FAQs and troubleshooting steps for common issues encountered when launching or having a visit. The page also includes a link to launch the technology check and configurable contact information for customer support.

Converge has the flexibility to adapt to each customer’s preference for provider prioritization. Providers may be prioritized based on rules within the solution. A key aspect to meeting our customers’ configuration and customization needs is the ability to segment providers according to geographic location, specialty, healthcare brand or system, and performance ranking, and present them to consumers in a clinically relevant manner. During intake, the consumer is required to select their location, by state, to ensure all clinicians displayed are licensed to see them and prescribe (if applicable) in the state where the consumer is located. Providers may be prioritized based on defined rules. For urgent care services, we can blend clinical services such that customer providers are prioritized to take consults first before rolling over to Amwell Medical Group. For scheduled appointments, we enable provider selection based on provider availability and consumer's preference. For queue routing outside of the tiering/prioritization, the platform’s logic looks at provider language, specialty, and state licensure for a given service line. Payer routing is a tenant level feature that can be enabled. The configuration/logic determines if a consumer can ultimately be routed to an Amwell Medical Group provider based on the insurance information entered by a consumer during intake.

Converge features a robust and flexible reporting tool called Looker, an industry-leading data visualization platform, to meet your unique business needs. With analytical tools embedded directly into our technology, a wide assortment of near real-time data is easily retrieved. Use Looker to explore, analyze, and share analytics captured on your platform. The reporting tool may be leveraged to understand utilization and outcomes for Converge telehealth visits. You may access easy-to-view dashboards and pre-configured reports that track your organization’s success at any time, including utilization, consumer and provider satisfaction, and call quality metrics. The power of Converge analytics allows you to access data analytics across your entire book of business; view aggregate and detailed reports, on demand; gain critical insights into trends, financials, and business operations; and make data-driven decisions based on real business intelligence. Data can be filtered by member's and employer groups, providing insight on utilization, actions taken within the platform, satisfaction and more. Looker also provides access to a suite of standard self-service reports, which includes detailed financial, clinical, and utilization metrics, encompassing all activity that occurs on the platform.

As part of an embedded experience within Epic and Oracle Cerner, launch virtual encounters directly within the EHR or Microsoft Teams. Teladoc Health allows providers to invite an interpreter during a live encounter with availability in 60 second or less for over 250 languages, including ASL. Invite additional participants, such as family members, to the visit with no app required.

Easily capture new patients or connect with existing ones and seamlessly route them to the appropriate care team using the same automated process regardless of if the patient is in the ED, clinic, or at home. Customize any patient workflow across any acuity level or location with the ability to capture valuable data, including demographics, forms and questionnaires, surveys, consent forms, real-time eligibility verification, payment collection, scheduling, single sign-on and EHR integration.

Built to mimic in-person care—using the latest video and audio technology compatible with diagnostic peripherals—Teladoc Health can bring care wherever patients are, with devices and software that work in hospitals, clinics and patients’ homes. 24/7 technical support, identity management and redundant global connectivity ensures high-resiliency and two-way integration puts data and patient information at clinician’s fingertips with HL7 integration, scheduling, eligibility confirmation, patient surveys, payments and digital signature.

Diagnosis specific templates such as stroke and behavioral health, contain data elements that can be imported through an EHR integration, passed through the Intake module check-in process, or entered manually by a clinical user. Calculators, scales, and helpful tools are incorporated to help providers track diagnosis and treatment options while fully documenting the clinical interaction.  Once documentation is complete, a consult note can be generated and electronically signed, providing a record of interaction that can be distributed to 3rd party systems through integration. 

As the only Telehealth Managed Service Provider, our service and support infrastructure provide clients with 24/7 or 12/7 proactive monitoring options to ensure their programs are always up and running.

Teladoc Health’s analytics module helps telehealth administrators see and understand data. Our visual analytics platform transforms the way people use data to solve problems and become a more data-driven virtual care program. The analytics module provides visual analytics and dashboards to enable users to spot patterns and trends quickly.

Behavioral health workflows can be embedded within EDs, inpatient care and psychiatric units through timely specialist consults. Diagnosis specific templates like those for behavioral health, contain data elements that can be imported through an EHR integration, passed through the Intake module check-in process, or entered manually by a clinical user.

By extending the reach of your providers to more locations, mental health patients can be treated in any care location. Bring mental health services to primary or urgent care clinics and the home, enabling remote access at the point of care – scheduled or on-demand. Additionally, support your inpatient and emergent lines with access to remote mental health specialists in acute and emergent situations. Additionally, this capability allows organizations to facilitate care coordination between non-owned medical groups, build virtual second opinion pathways, enhance same-day specialty referrals, and augment business cases for servicing patients in place.  

Designed for a multitude of use cases, healthcare environments and budgets, our telehealth devices connect patients and providers to ensure easy access to high-quality virtual care. Built to complement in-person care—using the latest video and audio technology compatible with diagnostic peripherals—Teladoc Health can bring care wherever patients are, with devices and software that work in hospitals, clinics and patients’ homes.

Teladoc Health enables integrated virtual care for hospitals and health systems to transform care delivery in the hospital, while also extending their influence beyond its walls. This allows hospitals and health systems to address workforce challenges, increase access to services, improve care coordination and attract new patients – all through an enterprise platform solution that integrates with your existing investments.

Use Cases

Description:

Technology: Amwell enables providers to treat patients outside the room, online. Key features of our technology include: 

  • Access via mobile, web, cart, kiosk and TVs
  • Mobile apps for providers and patients
  • Scheduled or on-demand visits 
  • Integration with EHRs through a suite of APIs
  • Ability to white-label technology 
  • Mobile software development kit to embed digital healthcare into your existing apps
  • Carts for telestroke, telepsychiatry, and other provider-to-provider consultations 
  • Automated care programs with conversational, virtual companions for continual engagement
  • Automated digital mental health programs through self-guided or coached engagements 

Use cases: Amwell has 16 years of experience, best practices, and practical know-how to help you establish telehealth use cases that serve your organization’s initiatives, extend your clinical assets, and bring care to your consumers and the communities you serve. We have partnered with our customer base to develop more than 175 unique use cases.The following are examples of use cases we have deployed with and for our customers.

  • On-demand care
  • Behavioral health
  • Digital mental health
  • Automated care programs
  • Chronic disease management
  • Home health
  • Patient triage
  • Workplace services
  • Pediatrics
  • School-based care
  • Provider-to-provider
  • Acute care
  • Language services
  • Maternity
  • Health and wellness
  • Pre- and post-discharge care
  • Scheduled visits
  • Clinic-based care
  • Care collaboration

Clinical services: Amwell's affiliated medical group: 

  • Provides 24/7/365 care 
  • Is board-certified and credentialed to NCQA and URAC 
  • Offers back-up care coverage as needed
  • Includes physicians, nutritionists, behavioral therapists, psychologists, psychiatrist, lactation consultants, women's health specialists, and nurse practioners 
  • Supports quality assurance, credentialing, and scheduling 
  • Offers clinical leadership and protocols, including physician and Grand Rounds

Go to market support: Amwell works alongside our customers to support deployment and ensure success, including: 

  • Marketing services for consumer engagement
  • Account management services
  • Technical services and integrations
  • Fleet management services 
Pediatric use cases:

More than 20 million children across the United States have inadequate access to healthcare.1 Pediatric health
systems are acutely aware of this issue, and are adopting innovative solutions to better care for their patients.
Amwell is partnered with some of the most prestigious pediatric health systems across the country on innova-
tive telehealth programs. Amwell’s telehealth platform allows these health systems to tailor workflows to meet the unique care needs of pediatric patients. Our pediatric partners are utilizing Amwell to customize care
for a range of pediatric conditions, for urgent care to psychiatry, cystic fibrosis and obesity.

Users:

Healthcare providers

Payers

Employers

Government

Higher-level education 

Consumers

Description:

Teladoc Health enables health systems to offer virtual care services across the care continuum – from ambulatory care to emergent care to inpatient care, and even care in the home.

Inpatient Care

Partnering with Teladoc Health empowers hospitals to deliver an intuitive, seamless new standard of inpatient care. Hybrid care models – those that leverage both in-person and virtual care when appropriate – allow hospitals and health systems to build more robust care teams around every patient, allowing bedside staff to focus on the most critical patient needs.

  • Expand capacity and capabilities: Increase staff-to-patient ratios, augment staff coverage during volume surges, reduce burnout and expand staff training opportunities. Specialists can virtually consult during inpatient emergency situations and intensive-care locations, adding expertise and guidance for in-person staff. 
  • Increase satisfaction: Clinicians and staff appreciate the convenience, added support and improved efficiency. Patients appreciate the simplicity, ease, safety and added attention that comes from a hybrid care experience. 
  • Drive financial stability: An enterprise-wide approach to virtual care can help address some of the core issues that challenge financial stability. Maximize the value of your existing digital investments and drive operational efficiencies and cost-savings at scale.  

Virtual services can include:

  • Medical specialties and subspecialties including behavioral health, cardiology, diabetes, infectious disease, nephrology, neonatology, neurology, oncology, pulmonology, palliative care, physical and occupational therapy 
  • Virtual nursing 
  • Administrative support 
  • Pharmacy 
  • Social services 
  • Scheduling, admissions and discharge 
  • Imaging 
  • Interpretive services, including over 260 languages 
  • Provider virtual consults 
  • Virtual rounding/telerounding 
  • TeleICU visits 
  • Virtual sitting/Telesitting 
  • Remote patient monitoring 

Emergent Care

Teladoc Health can help hospitals and health systems increase access to life-saving care by enabling immediate access to specialists when the minutes matter most. With quick, timely diagnoses provided through our easy-to-use connected care solutions, emergent care departments can help save lives and increase recovery likelihood for more patients.

  • Deliver timely treatment to more patients: Allow patients to be seen within minutes to help determine the best treatment pathway. Increase coverage and response time to most appropriately manage acuity levels. Expand access to a broader range of capabilities, resources and treatments. 
  • Meet your mission: Ensure your capabilities and capacity match the needs of the people you are serving. Providing around-the-clock access to high-quality care for emergent patients helps improve health outcomes. 
  • Scale for growth: Employ models that can scale up or down as needs change. Virtually connect to specialists inside and outside the health system. 

Virtual services can include:

  • Behavioral health 
  • Cardiology 
  • Critical care 
  • Diabetes 
  • Infectious disease 
  • Oncology 
  • Neonatology 
  • Neurology/Telestroke 
  • Pharmacy 
  • Physician services 
  • Provider virtual consults 

Ambulatory Care

Hospitals and health systems need an experienced virtual care partner that can help them find solutions to long wait times, barriers to care, workforce burnout, care coordination and data integration issues — and help reduce unnecessary emergency room visits, hospital readmissions and disease advancement. Managing ambulatory services through Teladoc Health’s Solo solution allows you to integrate data and connect workflows using your existing EHR to build a longitudinal view of your patients. 

  • Improve adherence: 24/7 ambulatory capabilities with personalized patient support can help improve adherence and reign in the impact and progression of chronic conditions. 
  • Reduce care fragmentation: Extending your footprint into ambulatory settings can reduce care fragmentation and help you maintain a competitive advantage in your market. 
  • Leverage existing technologies: The flexibility of Solo allows you to leverage your existing technologies and invest in virtual ambulatory services at your own pace. 

Virtual services can include:

  • Administrative Support 
  • 450 Medical Subspecialties including: Behavioral health, cardiology, diabetes, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, physical and occupational therapy 
  • Home health
  • Palliative care 
  • Pharmacy 
  • Rehabilitation 
  • Crisis assessments 
  • Education and coaching 
  • Provider consults 
  • Remote patient monitoring 
  • Scheduling 
  • Virtual visits
Pediatric use cases:

Teladoc Health enables many children’s hospitals across the country to deliver virtual care across the continuum. 

Users:

Hospitals & Health Systems. 

Teladoc Health also offers solutions for Employers and Health Plans.

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Patient portal, Access +/or revenue cycle, Website / public online sources

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athenahealth, NextGen, eClinicalWorks, Allscripts

Hardware Compatibility:

Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Integrations:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, athena, NextGen

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:
  • Patient state verified via geolocation
  • Dedicated provider support line
  • Elibility & copay collection
  • Automated reminders sent before visit
  • Automated patient readiness emails
  • Automated digital care and mental health programs
Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • Dedicated account teams with telehealth experience 
  • Patient state verified via geolocation 
  • Access to provider supply to load balance clinicians 
  • Dedicated provider support line
  • Custom intake forms
  • Elibility & copay collection 
  • Full suite of telehealth & devices
  • White-labeled mobile & web experiences 
  • Patient engagement services
  • Grant funding support
  • Automated reminders sent before visit
  • Automated patient readiness emails
  • Automated digital care and mental health programs
Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Our technology delivers layers of value to the virtual encounter to enable better team collaboration and patient engagement across a full range of care settings; supports consumer and care team experience, configurable intake, connects to devices, hybrid care and provides robust reporting, enhanced collaboration, along with embedded audio/video within EHRs.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

With 20+ years of experience founding and leading the virtual care segment, our technology and clinical expertise provide greater access to a wide range of physical and mental healthcare services; empower patients and providers with insights that inspire and accelerate better health decisions; and foster clinical collaboration that leads to higher quality of care. 

Teladoc Health offers expert consultant services to our health system partners, bringing best practices to help accelerate your transformation. Supporting hospitals and health systems with implementation, customized analytics and technical assistance enables our partners to make the most out of their investments. 

As the only Telehealth Managed Service Provider, our service and support infrastructure provides clients with 24/7 or 12/7 proactive monitoring options to ensure programs are always up and running.

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