Unite Us and Instacart announced a partnership on Tuesday to integrate care coordination with grocery benefits. The collaboration is designed to help healthcare organizations launch and operate food-as-medicine programs more easily and at a larger scale.
The partnership links Unite Us's care coordination platform with Instacart's grocery infrastructure, allowing providers to connect patients with food benefits as part of their care plans. This is intended to reduce the operational burden on health systems that want to address nutrition as a component of medical care.
The announcement reflects growing interest in food-as-medicine approaches, where nutrition is treated as part of treatment. By combining care coordination with grocery delivery, the two companies aim to make such programs more practical for widespread adoption.