- WELL's strategy to deliver societal value is primarily focused
on empowering and supporting healthcare providers to deliver the
best patient outcomes humanly possible.
- Key Highlights from the new ESG report include: increased
digitization and efficiency in our care delivery using AI and other
leading-edge technologies, our enhanced efforts to help the
healthcare industry improve its security and privacy posture and a
continued commitment to be a healthy place to work including an
increased investment in our Physician Success Team.
- WELL has launched an AI Center of Excellence designed to
improve the productivity of our operating platform while augmenting
tools to reduce administrative burden and physician burnout.
VANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2023
/PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX:
WHTCF) ("WELL" or the "Company"), a company focused
on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to
empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is
pleased to announce the release of its second ESG report. This
report expands on the foundations and practices described in last
year's inaugural report. The report outlines WELL's theme for this
year: "Taking Care of the Care Providers".
"With this report, WELL shareholders can be proud that their
company is purposefully making a real difference in the lives of
millions of people not only through its efforts to support
healthcare providers but also in its commitment to safeguard health
data", said Hamed Shahbazi, Founder
and CEO of WELL Health. "As WELL shareholders we are very fortunate
to have a business where our efforts to tech enable and support
healthcare providers doesn't just drive our economic engine but is
at the heart of our strategy to deliver societal value. As we grow,
we will make a more purposeful and positive impact on the
communities we serve."
In pursuit of its objectives, WELL continues to innovate and
evolve, using leading-edge technologies such as Artificial
Intelligence (AI) to make the healthcare experience better for
everyone involved. At WELL, we also recognize the potential of AI
to help care providers and our team members work more effectively
and efficiently, giving them back their time while providing them
with opportunities to provide better care. To ensure that we use
this powerful tool responsibly, we are establishing a new AI Centre
of Excellence within our organization.
Shane Sabatino, Chief People
Officer of WELL commented: "We are delighted to have received
recognition from objective external parties. The 2022 S&P
Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment acknowledged our
efforts, reflecting a significant improvement from the previous
year. Similarly, Sustainalytics' rankings demonstrated a remarkable
leap, indicating our dedication to enhancing ESG practices. These
achievements validate our commitment to the three pillars of our
ESG program: provider support and digital enablement, safeguarding
patient data, and fostering a healthy workplace. With this positive
momentum, we are confident in our ability to continue driving
positive change."
Additional key highlights from this year's report include the
use of WELL's tools and technologies to substantially:
- Improve care delivery by using our software capabilities to
realize a 20% reduction in surgical wait times and a 52-day
reduction in wait times for certain referral pathways and reducing
medically unnecessary MRIs by 12% for Ontarians where
applied.
- Decrease faxes with our best-in-class Ocean eReferral
software which received 531,000 eReferrals in
2022, leading to the elimination an estimated 5 million fax pages
which supported the environment and improved privacy.
- Improve patients' convenient access to timely care by adding
approximately 3000 doctors' schedules to its online booking system
representing a 1,246% increase from Jan
2021. This has allowed an estimated 3.9 million new patients
from across Canada to access
online booking services in the past year.
- Improve the healthcare ecosystem's security posture by
proactively leveraging its teams and tools to stress test and
strengthen cybersecurity defenses and protect patient data.
We would like to thank the WELL family for bringing this ESG
Report to life and making it part of the WELL Way of our day-to-day
activities. Where WELL can do good business, by doing good!
A copy of the complete ESG report can be found at
esg.well.company.
WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
Per: "Hamed Shahbazi"
Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
About WELL Health Technologies
Corp.
WELL's mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do
this by developing the best technologies, services, and support
available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to
positively impact patient outcomes. WELL's comprehensive healthcare
and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office
management software applications that help physicians run and
secure their practices. WELL's solutions enable more than 28,000
healthcare providers between the US and Canada and power the largest owned and
operated healthcare ecosystem in Canada with more than 130 clinics supporting
primary care, specialized care and diagnostic services. In
the United States WELL's solutions
are focused on specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal
market, women's health, primary care, and mental health. WELL is
publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol
"WELL" and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn
more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company
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