UVA Health, K Health to Extend Academic-Grade Virtual Primary Care Across Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI-enabled clinical care company K Health has formed a strategic partnership with UVA Health, the academic health system of the University of Virginia, to expand virtual primary care and behavioral health access for patients across Virginia. The collaboration pairs UVA Health's academic medical expertise, including its research enterprise, physician-scientist faculty, and century-long role training the clinicians who set national standards of care, with K Health's clinical AI, extending the academic standard of care into virtual settings.

“UVA Health has spent more than a century training the physicians who define standards of care nationally, and every one of our virtual visits has to meet that same quality,” said UVA Health’s Becky Compton, DNP, FNP-BC, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, UPG. “Delivering care at an academic medical center means grounding it in research, in teaching, and in the clinical judgment of our care team. We will use the K Health platform to support our care providers by reducing the time they spend on administrative tasks and giving them more time to care for our patients.”

Through the partnership, UVA Health patients will gain expanded access to virtual primary care and behavioral health services, delivered through UVA Health’s patient portal. K Health's clinical AI infrastructure supports the visit experience. It supports UVA Health clinicians with patient intake and visit preparation so clinical teams can focus on direct patient care and the complex clinical decision-making an academic medical center is built to deliver.

“Academic medical centers like UVA Health operate at a level of clinical complexity that most consumer health tools were never built for,” said Ran Shaul, co-founder and chief product officer at K Health. “UVA Health's residency and fellowship programs, its research enterprise, and its subspecialty depth are exactly the environment our technology was designed for. Our platform is designed to support completing administrative tasks, and enabling time for more direct patient care.”

Rather than leaving patients with a generic chatbot or a triage dead end, the model keeps patients connected to the academic medical center that already knows their history, creating a continuity of access across subspecialists, clinical trials, and research-informed care that an institution like UVA Health can offer.

UVA Health joins K Health's growing network of academic and community health system partners.

For more information about UVA Health's virtual care offerings, visit UVAHealth.com.

About UVA Health

UVA Health is an academic health system that includes four hospitals across Charlottesville, Culpeper and Northern Virginia along with nearly 300 clinics around the Commonwealth. With more than 1,000 inpatient beds, approximately 40,000 inpatient stays annually and more than 1 million outpatient encounters annually, more than 1,000 physicians provide high-quality, comprehensive care to patients across the Commonwealth and beyond. Through clinical affiliations and partnerships with other Virginia health systems around the state, patients can access UVA Health specialized care close to home. An array of virtual care options, including the UVA Center for Telehealth and Virtual Primary Care On Demand, enable patients to get care where and when they need it. The health system is comprised of the UVA School of Medicine, UVA School of Nursing, UVA Physicians Group, UVA Community Health, UVA Community Health Medical Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. UVA School of Medicine researchers develop breakthrough treatments backed by $300 million in grant funding, while the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center is Virginia’s first National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and one of only 57 cancer centers nationally to earn the designation for outstanding patient care and cutting-edge cancer research programs. UVA Health Children's is recognized as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia for children by U.S. News & World Report, with nine specialties rated among the top in America. For more information, resources, and to follow us on social media, please visit uvahealth.com.

About K Health

K Health is a leading AI-enabled clinical care company focused on managing large patient populations within health systems. The company provides high-quality primary care at scale, both virtually and in-person, and is expanding into specialties such as endocrinology and cardiology. Its health system partners include Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Northwell Health, Hartford HealthCare, Novant Health, Cedars-Sinai, Hackensack Meridian Health, Penn Medicine, Atlantic Health, and UVA Health, along with additional health system partners yet to be announced. K Health's clinical AI has powered over 4 million patient visits, serving thousands of new users daily. K Health is headquartered in New York, NY, and has raised over $443.5M in venture capital since launching in November 2016. For more information, please visit khealth.com.