Wheel collaborates with Cost Plus Drugs, Talkspace, Health Gorilla
TEXAS, UNITED STATES — Virtual care staffing and services vendor Wheel has partnered with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (Cost Plus Drugs), mental health platform Talkspace, and diagnostic services company Health Gorilla.
The collaborations will allow Wheel to offer affordable prescription drug pricing, mental health services, and lab/diagnostic services through its integrated virtual care ecosystem.
All three companies will be integrated into Wheel’s platform for customers this year.
The partnerships aim to streamline services and enhance comprehensive, patient-centric virtual care delivery for healthcare providers using Wheel’s platform.
“These partnerships represent a step toward breaking down barriers to care, ensuring that patients can access high-quality services seamlessly, conveniently and at a lower cost,” Wheel CEO and cofounder Michelle Davey told MobiHealthNews.
“For virtual care providers, our platform’s integrated ecosystem partners equip them with a robust tool kit to deliver comprehensive, patient-centric care at scale.”
Wheel was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. It specializes in careers, recruiting, healthcare recruiting, telehealth, telemedicine, physician recruiting, digital health, healthcare, workforce optimization, and virtual care.
Cost Plus Drugs, also headquartered in Austin, Texas, distributes low-cost drugs by utilizing a business model that removes the middleman.
Talkspace is an online therapy service that connects patients to a dedicated, licensed provider. Health Gorilla is a secure health data-sharing platform that allows national health information exchange while protecting patient data privacy and security.