Los Angeles, 28, February, 2023 – Today, VIVE Concierge unveiled Vive Care Connect, a proprietary patient care coordination platform aimed at expanding healthcare access in ways previously unattainable. This system addresses the complex challenges of clinical data exchange and care coordination to enhance health outcomes. In a significant move, UCLA Health, a key member of Los Angeles’ street medicine initiative, is generously assisting in making this platform available. This support will bolster the region’s street medicine teams as they address the medical needs of both the unhoused and housing-insecure populations, including adults and children.
Starting in Los Angeles County, the technology will be available to street medicine teams and institutions nationwide, aiming to bridge the care gaps and improve health outcomes for all Americans. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) most recent count estimates there are 69,000 unhoused people across the county, with 70% living outside and nearly 49,000 people considered unsheltered–significantly more than any other city in the United States. In addition approximately 6,500 of the unhoused are minors 1 . Further evidence of the depth of the crisis comes from research conducted by University of California Los Angeles, which estimated that nearly 1,500 unhoused people died on the streets–sidewalks, parking lots, alleys and tents–during the COVID-19 pandemic 2 . “It is challenging to provide consistent and comprehensive care to people experiencing homelessness within Los Angeles,” said Dr. Medell Briggs, Chief of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA Health System; and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. “However, leveraging VIVE’s innovative patient coordination care tool, street medicine and homeless care physicians and clinicians can ensure patients have equitable access to the clinical care and social services they need. The solution will allow us to provide highly coordinated preventative whole person care to the thousands of people in need of our services.”
The PCCP is a web and mobile-friendly software platform that allows for timely, bi-directional data exchange and secure communication across existing software solutions, such as EPIC and Cerner. It can track the street-medicine team in real-time allowing them to deliver consistency in individual care; vital in establishing trust with patients that are experiencing homelessness throughout the Los Angeles community. It provides health record access across service providers and allows referrals to be made to other clinical services, improving diagnostics, treatment and outcomes. “We are thrilled to be working with UCLA, USC, my alma mater, and by extension all of Los Angeles’ street medicine healthcare providers, to bring patient-centered treatment to the unhoused and housing insecure population,” said Dwayne Hall, CEO and Co-Founder, VIVE. “This contribution of our technology and intellectual property is at the heart of VIVE’s mission–to create a barrier breaking healthcare ecosystem focused on raising the standard of care for all people along the economic spectrum.” VIVE democratizes the concierge medicine model, removing barriers to access for both patients and physicians. Freed from the constraint of singular access points VIVE can facilitate a full spectrum of personalized care when and where it is needed. Patients can take advantage of data-driven healthcare, matched directly to their life needs. The VIVE Care Platform allows them to take control of their wellness and healthcare by ensuring the right specialists are matched to specific health and wellness needs.
About VIVE Concierge
Based in Los Angeles, VIVE Concierge is the only virtual healthcare and full service lab testing company in the United States that is women & minority founded, owned, and operated. It is committed to being the world’s first fully inclusive healthcare ecosystem focused on raising the standard of care for all people along the economic spectrum. Democratizing access to healthcare through its virtual care platform, it provides the public with urgent, primary, preventative and specialized care–so everyone can move along the path to wellness.
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1 https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=893-2022-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-data
2 https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2021/12/01/we-do-not-forget/
