Fed up with poor staffing ranges and extreme burnout, nurses proceed to go away their hospital jobs in droves. In truth, specialists predict that the U.S. healthcare business shall be brief 2.1 million nurses by 2025.
Hydreight was based in 2018 as a telehealth platform and medical community that addresses this subject by letting nurses be their very own boss and work as unbiased 1099 contractors. Final week, the Las Vegas-based firm launched an up to date app in order that the tons of of nurses on its platform can have a extra streamlined expertise.
The startup’s platform makes it attainable for nurses, med spa technicians and different licensed healthcare professionals to be answerable for their very own schedules and ship companies exterior of a hospital or conventional medical facility, stated Hydreight CEO Shane Madden.
“The platform operates as a market, basically as an ‘Uber for nurses,’ permitting them to attach straight with sufferers and ship companies wherever,” he stated.
Nurses use Hydreight’s platform to supply companies resembling IV drip, Botox, Covid-19 testing and different medical and med spa therapies. These companies may be delivered on the affected person’s dwelling, resort, workplace or every other appropriate location, Madden stated.
Sufferers who be part of Hydreight’s medical community can use its app — which operates equally to well-liked meals supply apps — to order a medical service from its pharmaceutical IV menu or aesthetic companies menu.
Hydreight’s platform supplies medical director oversight, legal responsibility insurance coverage, HIPAA-compliant documentation and entry to a digital pharmacy, Madden added. Which means nurses can work for themselves with out the stress of working their very own enterprise.
Throughout all 50 states, Hydreight presently has 688 accounts that present medical companies and tens of 1000’s of sufferers utilizing its app. The startup stated it’s troublesome to say the precise variety of nurses on its platform as a result of every account is totally different — some have one nurse working solo and others include a crew of nurses who joined utilizing one account.
Some Hydreight nurses went viral on TikTok final yr for posting movies saying they earn greater wages than journey nurses. Hydreight nurses stated they earn as a lot as $3,500 every week. The typical month-to-month wage for journey nurses is $9,790, which breaks all the way down to about $2,500 every week.
Madden stated Hydreight was based to provide nurses extra autonomy and freedom, and the corporate will stay devoted to serving their greatest pursuits.
“We’re dedicated to steady enchancment and listening to what customers want. This replace offers nurses and different well being and wellness service suppliers extra management over what they provide, in addition to total improved efficiency, usability, reporting, and aesthetic and useful upgrades. For each sufferers and repair suppliers, it consists of an improved reserving expertise and extra choices for a way every desires to make use of the platform,” he stated.
Nonetheless, Hydreight isn’t the one firm providing at-home IV companies — there’s additionally The IV Doc. Madden believes his firm differentiates itself with its proprietary HIPAA-compliant software program, medical director oversight, medical legal responsibility insurance coverage and infusions protocols.
“There isn’t any different cellular wellness group that gives its companions with all the things they should run their enterprise multi function place,” he stated.
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