Both Singapore-based companies have joined on a mission to make sure patients can get personalised healthcare at lower cost

Digital healthcare platform MyDoc today announced a partnership with Homage, a personalised nursing service provider.

The partnership will result in nursing care integration into MyDoc with the goal of offering affordable and enhanced outpatient healthcare support for employers and insurers.

According to MyDoc, the partnership rings true to its strategy which includes simplifying healthcare to be able to catch chronic diseases before it reaches terminal stage. This is also something that Singapore’s Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat addressed during Budget 2019 in terms of cost-effectiveness and access to the general population suffering from chronic conditions, regardless of income.

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Using MyDoc, patients can have a personal professional healthcare service with capabilities to enhance the patient experience and steer patients onto effective personal care pipeline that help each individual get well, stay well, and out of hospitals.

The partnership will see through two patient care models, that include expanding onsite clinics staffed by nurses who are supported by remote doctors, and a Clinic Care Capabilities that’ll enable patient to follow up care at home and better distribution of patient load.

Patients can use MyDoc’s platform to contact their nurses, provided by Homage and trained and certified by MyDoc. These telenurses are to monitor patient oxygen levels, heart rate, respiration, blood glucose level, and more.

On the other hand, nurses will be able to launch teleconsults with doctors from patients’ homes or offices to provide comprehensive doctor and nurse care, all at an affordable cost for each onsite visit and consult.

“Adding nurses to the MyDoc CARE team is a natural step in our strategy to enhance our patient-centric primary care continuum. Nursing care at home would be a significant value add to patients who need post-hospital discharge follow up services like wound reviews, dressing changes, intravenous therapies, and vital monitoring,” said Dr. Vas Metupalle, CIO and co-founder of MyDoc.

As the country of an estimated one million aged people by population by 2030, Singapore must tackle challenges of the high costs of care, especially home care.

“At Homage, we are professionalising home caregiving in Singapore by ensuring that all of our nurses possess the right certification and training,” said Gillian Tee, CEO and founder of Homage.

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Homage is the most recent addition to MyDoc’s value-based digital healthcare platform. Other strategic partners in the region include Guardian, IHP, Acumed, Aetna, AIA Vitality, Cigna, and many others.
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