Discovery Health, the leading health insurance administrator
providing administration and managed care services to more than 3.8
million individuals, has partnered with Amwell® (NYSE:
AMWL), a global leader in hybrid health care enablement, to
introduce the first-ever digital therapeutic benefits funded by a
health insurer in South Africa. As part of the organization’s
robust mental healthcare program and benefits package, clinicians
are now able to prescribe SilverCloud® by Amwell, a clinically
validated, evidence-based and affordable digital mental healthcare
platform, to members.
As a data-driven healthcare organization that administers over
57% of the country’s market for competitive health insurance
products, Discovery Health’s data from member claims reveal that
the prevalence of mental health conditions has steadily increased
in recent years, and this has been particularly noticeable since
the COVID-19 pandemic. Aligned to global statistics, including the
World Health Organization’s measure of a 25% rise in the prevalence
of depression since 2018, Discovery Health demonstrates a 19%
increase in the prevalence of depression since the pre-pandemic
period. Adding to the strain, South Africa’s healthcare industry
has also been impacted by the global workforce shortage trend.
Rising prevalence with lower supply of essential service
underscores Discovery Health’s need to leverage technology to
broaden access to treatment via innovative, effective, and
affordable digital therapies.
“The rapid digitisation of healthcare, accelerated by the global
pandemic, has improved access to quality patient care across nearly
every specialty worldwide. As our organisation faces demands for
mental healthcare much like the concerning trends being experienced
worldwide, Discovery Health sought a clinically validated, Food and
Drug Administration approved and internationally proven partner to
help,” says Dr. Noluthando Nematswerani, chief clinical officer at
Discovery Health. “This benefit offering expands access to
treatment, improves outcomes, and supports our members in changing
their behaviour in a sustainable manner through leading digital
cognitive behaviour therapies, so that they can better manage their
condition on a regular basis. In SilverCloud by Amwell, we have
found a mental health technology platform and valuable partner that
will support our goal to provide increased access to care for our
members.”
SilverCloud by Amwell is an award winning, on-demand digital
mental health and well-being platform with proven impact among over
1 million users worldwide. Ongoing platform data shows that
approximately 65% of SilverCloud users experience significant
improvements and 56% of users diagnosed with symptoms of depression
or anxiety were diagnosis-free within three months of using the
platform. It is used by the U.K.’s National Health Service,
Ireland’s Health Service Executive, and numerous provider and
insurer organizations in the U.S. and worldwide.
“Global research paints a grim picture of the increased
prevalence of mental health diagnoses, as one in eight people
globally live with a mental health condition, and care team burnout
among healthcare organizations worldwide. Discovery Health is
demonstrating its global leadership and innovative approach by
integrating digital therapy benefits into its mental health care
offering. We are honored to enable Discovery Health’s
first-of-its-kind offering in South Africa as it eases the strain
on behavioral health providers while providing members easy access
to affordable and effective treatment options,” said Kathy Weiler,
chief commercial and growth officer, Amwell.
To learn more about SilverCloud by Amwell, click here. To learn
more about Discovery Health, click here.
About Amwell Amwell provides a leading hybrid care
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 hybrid care delivery will transform
healthcare. The company offers a single, comprehensive platform to
support all digital health needs from urgent to acute and
post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy
living. With nearly two decades of experience, Amwell powers the
hybrid care of more than 55 health plans, which collectively
represent more than 90 million covered lives, and many of the
nation’s largest health systems, representing over 2,000 hospitals,
have access to Amwell solutions. For more information, please visit
https://business.amwell.com/.
©2023 American Well Corporation. All rights reserved. Amwell®,
SilverCloud®, Converge™, Carepoint™ and the Amwell Logo are
registered trademarks or trademarks of American Well
Corporation.
About Discovery Group Discovery Limited is a South
African-founded financial services organisation that operates in
the healthcare, life assurance, short-term insurance, banking,
savings and investment and wellness markets. Since inception in
1992, Discovery has been guided by a clear core purpose – to make
people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. This has
manifested in its globally recognised Vitality Shared-Value
insurance model, active in over 40 markets impacting over 40
million lives. The model is exported and scaled through the Global
Vitality Network, an alliance of some of the largest insurers
across key markets including AIA (Asia), Ping An (China), Generali
(Europe), Sumitomo (Japan), John Hancock (US), Manulife (Canada)
and Vitality Life & Health (UK, wholly owned). Discovery trades
on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange as DSY.
Follow us on Twitter @Discovery_SA
About Discovery Health Discovery Health is the leading
medical scheme administrator in South Africa, providing
administration and managed care services to over 3.7 million
beneficiaries. The business has a market share of over 57% in the
overall medical scheme market in South Africa and manages 18
restricted medical schemes on behalf of leading corporate clients,
as well as Discovery Health Medical Scheme, South Africa's largest
open medical scheme.
The success of Discovery Health is due to our ability to offer a
fully integrated, value-driven healthcare operating system to our
clients, centred on meeting the full spectrum of healthcare needs
of client medical schemes. Discovery Health successfully operates
beyond traditional administration and managed-care services and
provides ongoing product innovation, best-in-class service
excellence, effective claims risk and fraud management, as well as
the coordination and management of the quality of clinical services
accessed by our clients. We deploy world-class actuarial,
analytical, clinical and research and development capabilities at
every point in the medical scheme product cycle.
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