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Boost Mobile has added a new sign-on perk for subscribers of its Unlimited Plus plan: free virtual healthcare services through K Health.
The partnership between Boost Mobile and K Health gives the wireless provider’s customers and immediate families access to a range of telehealth care. K Health’s platform offers a text-based artificial intelligence-enabled symptom checker, virtual primary care, prescriptions refills and mental health support.
Boost Mobile will launch its telemedicine services this summer. They will be free for new Unlimited Plus subscribers and $7.99 per month for other Boost Mobile service plans.
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Blackstone Hires Israeli Tech Executive Yifat Oron; Announces Opening of New Office in Tel Aviv
April 25, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK & TEL AVIV, Israel (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 25, 2021
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced today that it has hired Yifat Oron, who previously served as CEO of LeumiTech, as a Senior Managing Director and head of the firm’s new office in Tel Aviv, Israel. She will lead Blackstone’s growth and tech investments in Israel for Blackstone Growth (BXG), the firm’s growth equity business, and assist with other investing efforts across the firm. Ms. Oron brings more than twenty years of experience as a tech investor and executive in Israel, with leadership roles in venture capital, banking and consulting.
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Digital health startup K Health, in collaboration with and with backing from Blackstone Growth and Anthem, is launching a new joint venture aimed at increasing access to healthcare while making it more affordable.
Called Hydrogen Health, the new company will use K Health’s artificial intelligence technology to create digital healthcare solutions to the employer and consumer markets. It hopes to deliver a suite of digital, virtual and in-person care options targeting the direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer and direct-to-insurer markets, according to the announcement.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the deal includes a put-and-call agreement between Anthem and Blackstone.