Employer-focused most cancers startup AccessHope introduced it’s including Johns Hopkins Medication’s Sidney Kimmel Complete Most cancers Care Middle to its community of Nationwide Most cancers Institute-designated organizational companions. 

AccessHope connects employers providing self-funded well being plans and workers’ treating physicians with cancer-focused experience from NCI-Designated Complete Most cancers Facilities nationwide to extend entry to high quality oncology-based care, analysis and affected person outcomes.

The corporate is a completely owned subsidiary of most cancers therapy and analysis heart Metropolis of Hope. Its present Nationwide Most cancers Institute companions embrace Metropolis of Hope, the Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute, Emory Healthcare, Northwestern Medication and the Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Middle. 

“AccessHope helps employers play a significant position of their workers’ most cancers journey by making the newest most cancers information and insights obtainable to native physicians as a way to assist enhance high quality of life and well being outcomes, assist folks return to their work and lives and scale back bills,” AccessHope CEO Mark Stadler informed MobiHealthNews in an electronic mail.

“This collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medication’s Sidney Kimmel Complete Most cancers Middle won’t solely ship vital advantages to employers and other people with most cancers, however works to scale back most cancers well being disparities in underserved populations.”

THE LARGER TREND

One firm using AccessHope’s offerings for its employees is tech and retail big Amazon. The corporate touts the providing as one in all 4 well being advantages workers can use on their first day. 

In November, AccessHope announced a partnership with California-based Carrum Health, a digital market permitting employers to buy bundled healthcare providers. The collaboration supplies self-insured employers and their workers entry to AccessHope’s most cancers specialists community by Carrum’s oncology providing. 

One other platform within the digital well being oncology house is Jasper Health, which supplies a hybrid digital however human-led most cancers care platform for sufferers and suppliers that gives care navigation and steerage, knowledge insights, distant affected person monitoring capabilities, most cancers care coaches and a affected person help group.