Uber Health can help you get to doctor's appointments
While ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft certainly have some controversy surrounding them, it's hard to deny that they have brought tangible benefits to the lives of many. Today, Uber introduced Uber Health , which is an official partnership with healthcare organizations. It allows healthcare providers, caregivers and staff to order rides for patients to and from appointments, and marks a positive development for the embattled ridesharing company . Uber Health allows patients to take control of their rides to and from a provider's office; or, if the patient is unable to (or unwilling to) schedule their own rides, a provider, member of the provider's staff or a caregiver can do it for them up to 30 days in advance. The entire process is conducted via text message, so there is no need to have a smartphone advanced enough to run the Uber app. It allows for the organizations to easily keep track of their patients' rides and billing. And because privacy is a huge con...