USC reveals 8 foundational partners for Virtual Care Center

The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC), the digital health innovation accelerator for the Keck Medicine of USC medical enterprise, has announced eight foundational partners for its Virtual Care Clinic (VCC).  The disruptive digital healthcare model uses mobile apps, wearable sensors, virtual human healthcare providers, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), data collection, analytics and artificial intelligence using digital communication tools for a seamless, integrated system where patients can access medical care and content from any location. The VCC, housed at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT), is located in Playa Vista, which is in Los Angeles’ digital zone known as Silicon Beach. The VCC intends to harness cutting-edge technologies and creative solutions developed at ICT to extend Keck Medicine of USC experts to anyone with a smartphone, according to information on the organization’s website. Dr. Evidence, IMS Health, Karten Design, Medable, Planet Grande, Proteus Digital Medicine and VSP Global are the foundational partners along with ICT. “Our Virtual Care Clinic is not only the democratization of healthcare allowing anyone access to our medical experts without leaving their home, but it also capitalizes on the promise that digital health is supposed to offer,” said Leslie Saxon, MD. “Because we have worked in collaboration with our VCC partners and our medical experts, this healthcare model will empower patients, improve quality outcomes with more precision medicine analytics and diagnosis and enhance the physician-patient relationship by creating a contextualized experience and seamless communication that puts the patient in the driver seat of their own healthcare experience and outcomes.”