Carbon Health Technology

Our Technology blog focuses on how Carbon Health employs technology to create the future of healthcare.

May 5, 2022: Continuous Glucose Monitoring

The Steady Health team joined Carbon Health in 2021, and since then we have been working tirelessly together to bring the Carbon Health vision of omnichannel, continuous, sensor-driven care for chronic conditions like diabetes to life. Read more.

February 22, 2022: Finding a Primary Care Provider

Omnichannel care means you should be able to have a laceration looked at, get your labs primary care needs taken care off, and enroll in a chronic care program for something like diabetes or hypertension — all with the same healthcare team. Historically, our clinic staff, approach, and software were really fine-tuned to serve acute care use cases. As we grow our primary care service, we’re changing that. Read more.

December 9, 2021: Employee Registration

Since the mid-2020 launch of our COVID Ready program, we’ve helped hundreds of businesses — and tens of thousands of employees — stay safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we expand into more employer services like occupational health and workers’ compensation, we’re building out employee-specific tools that improve their experience. Read more.

November 29, 2021: Patient Care Adherence Tab

As Carbon Health continues to expand into primary care, being good at following up with patient referrals becomes far more important as a lever to improve outcomes. This is how we are working to be better. Read more.

October 29, 2021: Insurance Coverage as a Service

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., in early 2020, the federal government wanted to ensure that anyone could get tested for COVID-19, for free. Here’s what we learned when we operationalized that process. Read more.

September 21, 2021: Celebrating Carbon Health’s Incredible IT Team

September 21 is National IT Professionals Day, a time to celebrate and show support for all the incredible people who keep Carbon Health’s computer systems running smoothly. We sat down with four team members to talk about what drew them to a career in tech, what they love about working for Carbon Health, and more. Read more.

September 15, 2021: Price Transparency in Healthcare

When the pandemic hit, we leaned heavily into our response to COVID-19. One of the many things we did was create a free map of sites around the U.S. that did COVID-19 testing. What we learned during that process has deepened our commitment to creating price transparency throughout healthcare. Read more.

September 9, 2021: Better Appointment-Scheduling Tools

As we’ve added more services, it’s gotten harder for patients to discover what’s right for them, and the process for choosing the type of care they need has gotten more complex. So we’ve an easier-to-use appointment scheduler that lists all the services available at a particular location, as well as the earliest availability of each service. Read more.

September 1, 2021: Better Support for Walk-in Patients

New support for searching and adding patients who walk in off the street without an appointment should both speed up the check-in process and simplify our scheduling. Read more.

August 25, 2021: Schedule Board 2.0

We recently launched an updated schedule board that should enable our clinics to run more efficiently. The schedule board is the command center for a clinic — staff use it to see which patients are scheduled that day, when they’re scheduled, and who has walked in, so they can prepare for appointments. Read more.

August 24, 2021: Celebrating Carbon Health’s Women Engineers

As a company, we believe that diversity in engineering — and in all departments — helps us create better, more effective products, which in turn can help more people gain access to better healthcare. We sat down with four of our highly talented women software engineers, who help us advance in our mission to deliver great healthcare to everyone every single day. Read more.