SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Castlight Health,
Inc. (NYSE: CSLT) today announced new milestones in its efforts to
inform and assist the public in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
To date, more than 310,000 unique visitors have used Castlight's
national test site finder, which currently includes 3,683 sites
across all 50 states and is updated daily. Testing location
information from Castlight is now accessible via Google Search.
Additionally, the directory is powering a growing list of
organizations' COVID-19 testing finder efforts, including the
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Ford Motor
Company, DaVita, Midwest Business Group on Health and innovative
healthcare companies like Premise Health, Forward, and 98point6.
These collaborations will help ensure that their employees,
members, and customers can easily find and access the comprehensive
directory.
"We created a comprehensive testing site directory because we
heard from our users a clear need for a trusted, national source of
truth about where to find COVID-19 tests. We are excited to make
this critical healthcare knowledge available to more people through
ongoing collaborations with technology leaders, health plans, state
governments and Fortune 500 companies, further informing the
national testing effort and helping get Americans back to work,"
said Castlight CEO, Meave
O'Meara.
The COVID-19 test site finder includes a self-assessment tool to
help users understand when they might need to seek a test or other
medical care. Castlight created the testing registry with data from
public health departments across the country, provider systems, and
third party sources. It provides a list of testing sites by state
and county, with each site identified as being either a
one-stop-shop where patients can be screened and tested or a
facility where patients must come with a requisition or test sample
performed by their doctor.
"Testing is a critical part of our public health response to
COVID-19 and we continue to aggressively add new testing locations
every week," said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and
chief deputy for health at the Michigan Department of Health and
Human Services. "Adding Castlight's test site finder to our
COVID-19 website has increased public knowledge about testing
availability across our state and is helping residents find the
testing site nearest to them."
The test site finder and self-assessment tool are part of
Castlight's larger COVID-19 Resource Center, which also includes a
national heat map tracking at-risk populations and highlighting
communities most vulnerable for health systems overload. Castlight
has also released an analysis of the typical cost for services
associated with COVID-19 care. Castlight will continue to add
resources to assist the coronavirus response as the pandemic
evolves, working to provide meaningful support to the community as
we all work together to combat the spread of disease.
Organizations interested in embedding Castlight's testing site
directory or in accessing Castlight's COVID-19 data should contact
Matt Moran at
mmoran@castlighthealth.com.
About Castlight Health
Castlight is on a mission to
make it as easy as humanly possible for its users to navigate the
healthcare system and live happier, healthier, more productive
lives. Our health navigation platform connects hundreds of health
vendors, benefits resources, and plan designs into one
comprehensive health and wellbeing experience. We guide
individuals—based on their unique profile—to the best resources
available to them, whether they are healthy, chronically ill, or
actively seeking medical care. Castlight transforms the employee
benefit experience into a deeply personalized, yet simple, guided
one, empowering better-informed patient decisions to unlock better
healthcare outcomes and maximizing return on healthcare
investments.
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For more information, contact:
Courtney Lamie
press@castlighthealth.com
276-492-4248
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